US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on March 24 for "Cascaded optical modulation system" (California, Utah, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,744, issued on March 24, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Cascaded optical modulation system" was invented by Steven M. Kim (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Daniel A. Tazartes (West Hills, Calif.), Gregory A. Zimmerman (Sandy, Utah) and Leonard A. Atkinson (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes an optical system. The system includes a laser configured to generate an optical beam and an optical modulation system comprising a plurality of optical modulators arranged in a cascaded sequence. Each of the optical modulators can be configured to provide successive modulation of the opt...