US Patent Issued to XILINX on Oct. 27 for "Ring modulators with low-loss and large free spectral range (FSR) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,180, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ring modulators with low-loss and large free spectral range (FSR) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform" was invented by Chuan Xie (Fremont, Calif.), Mayank Raj (San Jose, Calif.), Anish Joshi (San Jose, Calif.), Zakriya Mohammed (San Jose, Calif.), Gareeyasee Saha (San Jose, Calif.), Parag Upadhyaya (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Yohan Frans (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) device includes micro-ring modulators (MRMs) having radii under 5 micrometers. A 16-channel embodiment...