US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives on Sept. 29 for "Device for converting a photonic signal, associated lidar and method" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,187, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (Paris).

"Device for converting a photonic signal, associated lidar and method" was invented by Bertrand Dupont (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting a photonic signal to be analyzed includes two output branches, and one input for receiving a photonic signal to be analyzed and splitting off a part of the photonic signal to each output branch. The device imposes a phase shift of approximately 180 degrees between the two parts, each output branch including a photodiode generating a respective...