US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Aug. 25 for "Phase modulator and method for producing same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,178, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Phase modulator and method for producing same" was invented by Sylvain Guerber (Grenoble Cedex, France), Jonathan Faugier-Tovar (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Daivid Fowler (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is based on a thermo-optic phase modulator comprising, in a stack, a waveguide, an encapsulation layer and a heating element configured to heat the waveguide, said modulator being bordered by first and second trenches.Advantageously, the waveguide, the encapsulation layer and the heating...