US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 2 for "Optical pulse amplitude modulator (PAM) with multiple modulator segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,105, issued on June 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical pulse amplitude modulator (PAM) with multiple modulator segments" was invented by Chan-Hong Chern (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chih-Chang Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an optical module comprising an optical modulator device (OMD) for pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) in which the OMD comprises multiple modulator segments. A first modulator segment and a second modulator segment are spaced from each other along a ring-shaped waveguide. Further...