ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,813, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Reduced thickness optical isolator and method of use thereof in a laser optic system" was invented by Ramesh Sundaram (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical isolator, a garnet rotates a polarization of an optical signal input into the garnet via a polarizer from an optical signal source in a first direction and outputs it as a first garnet output optical signal to an analyzer which outputs it as a first analyzer output optical signal. A difference (D) between a polarization of the first garnet output optical signal and a polarizati...