US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Optical subsystem with flat lenses for multimode transceivers" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,143, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical subsystem with flat lenses for multimode transceivers" was invented by Sebastian Romero Garcia (Malaga, Spain), Michael Tittenhofer (Fuerth, Germany), Stefan Wiese (Eckental, Germany) and Christian R. Raabe (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical subsystem with flat lenses for multimode transceivers is provided. The optical subsystem includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The optical subsystem also includes a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) disposed on the PIC, a photodetector disposed on the PIC, a t...