US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Foundation on Aug. 18 for "Optical isolator based on volume Bragg gratings" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,578, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to University of Central Florida Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Optical isolator based on volume Bragg gratings" was invented by Ivan Divliansky (Orlando, Fla.), Oussama Mhibik (Oviedo, Fla.) and Axel Schulzgen (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical isolator may include one or more rotated volume Bragg gratings (r-VBGs) within a volume of a material having an input face, where each of the r-VBGs reflects along a reflection path portions of input light propagating along an incidence vector through the input face that satisfies a Bragg condition for one or more selected waveleng...