US Patent Issued to OAM Photonics on Sept. 9 for "Chip-scale receiver and method for free space optical coherent communications" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,307, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OAM Photonics LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Chip-scale receiver and method for free space optical coherent communications" was invented by Kam Wai Clifford Chan (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Chung Ki Wong (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a chips-scale free-space optical (FSO) receiver with a wide two-dimensional field-of-view (FOV) that affords high data rate optical communication and rapid pointing and tracking (PAT) operations in an integrated design, and a method for FSO communication with PAT that supports high-speed node acquisition and network ent...