US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Aug. 25 for "Photonic device mechanically isolated from a substrate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,087, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Photonic device mechanically isolated from a substrate" was invented by Guillaume Jourdan (Grenoble, France) and Marc Gely (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic device including a substrate and a structure. The structure includes a support, an optical resonator fixed to the support, and a portion of a waveguide optically coupled to the resonator and fixed to the support. The structure is suspended above the substrate. The portion of the waveguide and the resonator are arranged on a same side of the su...