US Patent Issued to Imec vzw on June 30 for "Arrayed waveguide multiplexing/demultiplexing device with phase correction" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,645, issued on June 30, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Arrayed waveguide multiplexing/demultiplexing device with phase correction" was invented by Bruno Figeys (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated photonics arrayed waveguide multiplexing/demultiplexing device is disclosed. The device includes an array of waveguides having an incident light waveguide section including a phase correcting region, a transmitted light waveguide section, a tunable reflector, wherein each pair of consecutive waveguides in the array includes a coupler. The coupler configured to combine light from the transmitted light...