US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Laser system for ranging applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,267, issued on July 28.

"Laser system for ranging applications" 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 passively, Q-switched laser operating at an eye safe wavelength of between 1.2 and 1.4 microns is described. The laser may operate at a lasing wavelength of 1.34 microns and use a gain element of Nd:YVO4 and a saturable absorber element of V:YAG. The systems and methods to produce short pulses having a pulse duration less than 1 ns and high energy pulses having pulse energies greater than 2 MuJ are described."

The patent was filed...