US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on June 23 for "Geometry for a semiconductor optical amplifier" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,394, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Geometry for a semiconductor optical amplifier" was invented by Yiyin Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amit Mizrahi (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael C. Larson (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may generate a data set including at least modal gain values and modal loss values for a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) slice. The device may determine, based on the data set, respective widths for a plurality of slices of an SOA using an autoregressive model. A width, of the respective widths, for a slice, of the...