US Patent Issued to Lumentum Technology UK on Aug. 4 for "Optical assembly with an optical element to suppress a parasitic etalon response" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,227, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lumentum Technology UK Ltd. (Northamptonshire, Great Britain).

"Optical assembly with an optical element to suppress a parasitic etalon response" was invented by Colin Smith (Paignton, Great Britain), Stuart Conley (Newton Abbot, Great Britain) and Samuel Justin Jones (Paignton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an optical assembly includes a first etalon, a second etalon, and an optical element disposed between the first etalon and the second etalon. The first etalon is configured to transmit a collimated light beam from an input surface of the first etalon to...