US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Sept. 1 for "Optical pulse train generation device and optical pulse train generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,318, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical pulse train generation device and optical pulse train generation method" was invented by Koyo Watanabe (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takashi Inoue (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical pulse train generation device includes a storage unit and a characteristic setting unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of phase patterns in advance. The plurality of phase patterns are phase patterns for forming, from a first optical pulse, an optical pulse train including a plurality of second optical pulses having time differences thereb...