ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,998, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GAMDAN Optics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Bonding optical materials" was invented by William M. Grossman (San Jose, Calif.), Dennis J. Garrity (San Jose, Calif.) and Hui Cai (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method of making an optical component. Planes of optical materials are diffusion bonded to make a single larger nonlinear optical device. The bond plane may be configured at an angle to an input wave passing through the diffusion bonded structure. In one embodiment, the optical material is Lithium triborate (LBO). In some e...