US Patent Issued to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Electrically tunable optical resonator on a chip for fast tunable integrated lasers" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,177, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Electrically tunable optical resonator on a chip for fast tunable integrated lasers" was invented by Tobias Kippenberg (Aran, Switzerland), Sunil Bhave (West Lafayette, Ind.), Hao Tian (West Lafayette, Ind.), Johann Riemensberger (St-Sulpice VD, Switzerland), Grigorii Likhachev (Chavannes-Renens, Switzerland) and Anat Siddharth (Prilly, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electrically tunable photonic resonator device for a co...