US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE LAVAL on Aug. 18 for "Lensed optical fiber taper and methods of manufacturing same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,594, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITE LAVAL (Quebec, Canada).

"Lensed optical fiber taper and methods of manufacturing same" was invented by Sanggon Kim (Quebec, Canada), Mourad Roudjane (Quebec, Canada), Younes Messaddeq (Quebec, Canada) and Yves De Koninck (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of manufacturing a lensed optical fiber using an optical fiber having a tapered region decreasing in diameter along a longitudinal direction leading to a taper tip. The method generally has: while the tapered region and the taper tip of the optical fiber are immersed into an etching liquid, he...