ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,364, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dust Photonics (Modiin, Israel).
"Semiconductor optical amplifier" was invented by Yoel Chetrit (Kfar Ben Nun, Israel) and Shmuel Borenstain (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SOA that includes a SOA input optical port, a first region, a mirror, a second region and a SOA output optical port. At least one of the first region and the second region is an active region configured to amplify an optical signal. The SOA input optical port, the first region, the mirror, the second region, and the SOA output optical port are in optical communication with each other. The SOA input optical por...