US Patent Issued to Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie on Aug. 25 for "Optical coupling and mode-selective separation or superposition of optical fields" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,086, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Optical coupling and mode-selective separation or superposition of optical fields" was invented by Aleksandar Nesic (Stutensee, Germany), Matthias Blaicher (Ettlingen, Germany) and Christian Koos (Siegelsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an assembly for optical coupling and for mode-selective separation or overlaying of optical fields, to the use thereof and to a method for producing a waveguide-based optical coupling element (10) which is designed for mode-selective separation or overlaying of optica...