US Patent Issued to Quintessent on March 24 for "Apparatus comprising a distributed coupled-cavity waveguide reflector" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,984, issued on March 24, was assigned to Quintessent Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Apparatus comprising a distributed coupled-cavity waveguide reflector" was invented by Michael Davenport (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coupled-cavity waveguide reflectors suitable for use in high-Q reflective spectral filters, narrow-linewidth lasers, and the like, are presented. Coupled-cavity waveguide reflectors in accordance with the present disclosure comprise multiple waveguide segments arranged in a series, each segment including a tooth having relatively higher refractive index and a gap having relatively lower refractive ind...