ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,392, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Brussels) and TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT (Darnstadt, Germany).

"Wavelength control of multi-wavelength laser" was invented by Robert Pawlus (Weiterstadt, Germany), Martin Virte (Brussels), Hugo Thienpont (Gooik, Belgium) and Stefan Breuer (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit device includes a lasing cavity for resonating at a plurality of discrete wavelengths and an optical feedback cavity operably coupled to the lasing cavity via a front surface of the lasing cavity. The optical feedback cavity has a reflective eleme...