US Patent Issued to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS on May 13 for "Integrated photonic device and photonic integrated circuit using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,973, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Integrated photonic device and photonic integrated circuit using the same" was invented by Kazumasa Takabayashi (Atsugi, Japan) and Shuntaro Makino (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated photonic device having an array of two or more semiconductor optical amplifiers includes a first semiconductor optical amplifier, which has a first gain region and a second gain region connected by a first connecting waveguide, and a second semiconductor optical amplifier, which is provided in parallel with the first semiconductor optical...