US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on May 13 for "Laser device and method for generating laser light" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,971, issued on May 13, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Laser device and method for generating laser light" was invented by Takashi Kurita (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yoshinori Kato (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Toshiyuki Kawashima (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser apparatus includes a light source unit and a light combining unit. The light source unit outputs first laser light and second laser light having a wavelength different from that of the first laser light to different optical paths. The light combining unit is optically coupled to the light source unit, and combines the first laser light ...