US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 11 for "Laser amplification device and laser amplification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,762, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Laser amplification device and laser amplification method" was invented by Takashi Sekine (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yoshinori Tamaoki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser amplification device includes an amplification unit and a phase adjustment unit; the amplification unit includes a signal light source, an excitation light source, and a nonlinear optical crystal; the nonlinear optical crystal has a plurality of spatially different crystal portions; the signal light source, the excitation light source, and the nonlinear optical cry...