ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,348, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Dispersion measurement device and dispersion measurement method" was invented by Koyo Watanabe (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hisanari Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takashi Inoue (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispersion measuring device includes a pulse forming unit, a light detection unit, a control unit, and an arithmetic operation unit. The control unit selectively outputs a first phase pattern and a second phase pattern. The pulse forming unit forms an optical pulse train from initial pulsed light, the optical pulse train including ...