US Patent Issued to Thorlabs on April 7 for "Single mode wideband polarization maintaining fiber coupler" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,231, issued on April 7, was assigned to Thorlabs Inc. (Newton, N.J.).

"Single mode wideband polarization maintaining fiber coupler" was invented by Eric Geoffrion (Montreal), Sorin Iacob (Laval, Canada), Damien Stryckman (Montreal) and Lucas Majeau (Mascouche, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single mode wideband polarization maintaining (PM) fiber coupler, including: a first PM fiber having a first core and a pair of first stress members configured to provide a first mechanical stress to the first core; and a second PM fiber having a second core and a pair of second stress members configured to provide a second mechanical str...