US Patent Issued to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems on Aug. 4 for "Integrated-optic fourier transform spectrometer using twin waveguide arrays" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,045, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Integrated-optic fourier transform spectrometer using twin waveguide arrays" was invented by Katsunari Okamoto (Mito, Japan), Behzad Moslehi (Los Altos, Calif.) and Mehrdad M. Moslehi (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fourier transform spectrometer implemented on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is provided. An input optical signal waveguide carries an input optical signal to be analyzed to an on-chip Y branch splitter to split the input signal equally to carry coupled-optical signals related to the input optical signa...