US Patent Issued to Tesat-Spacecom on April 14 for "Polarization modulator with separate optical sections" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,936, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Backnang, Germany).

"Polarization modulator with separate optical sections" was invented by Silas Eul (Backnang, Germany), Julian Struck (Backnang, Germany) and Thomas Hiemstra (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modulator unit includes a light source, a phase modulator, a polarization component separator, and a reflector. The light source emits an optical signal with two polarization components with their respective polarization direction to the polarization component separator. The polarization component separator sends the polarization componen...