US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 6 for "Frequency comb-based analog coherent receiver for multi-wavelength optical links" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,477, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Frequency comb-based analog coherent receiver for multi-wavelength optical links" was invented by Elizabeth Chen (Stanford, Calif.), Joseph M. Kahn (San Carlos, Calif.), Brandon Buscaino (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Larry A. Coldren (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coherent wavelength division multiplexing is provided using frequency comb sources for both the transmitter and the local oscillator (LO) in the receiver. The local osci...