US Patent Issued to II-VI Delaware on June 2 for "Optical isolator with optical polarizers having high transmission, corrosion resistance and reduced thickness" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,018, issued on June 2, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Optical isolator with optical polarizers having high transmission, corrosion resistance and reduced thickness" was invented by Justin M. Hannigan (Springfield, Ore.), Christoph Greiner (Eugene, Ore.), Ramesh Sundaram (Fremont, Calif.), Juan Ni (Eugene, Ore.), Victoria Sorg (Eugene, Ore.) and Dmitri Iazikov (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical isolator includes a polarizer for receiving an optical signal from an optical signal source, a Faraday rotator disposed on one surface of the polarizer for rotating a polarization of the optical sig...