US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Laser resonator assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,263, issued on July 28.

"Laser resonator assembly" was invented by Thomas James Kane (Menlo Park, Calif.) and John Lawrence Nightingale (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser resonator assembly and a method of assembly of the laser resonator assembly are described. The laser resonator assembly has a gain element and an output coupler that are placed in a gain element frame and output coupler frame, respectively. The output coupler may also be a saturable absorber element so that the laser resonator assembly emits Q-switched pulses. The frames provide heat dissipation and can be easily aligned and permanently a...