ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,181, issued on July 21, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Miniaturized master oscillator power-amplifier structure diode-pumped solid-state laser" was invented by Guanglong Yu (Fuzhou, China), Xu Jia (Fuzhou, China), Ming Zhao (Fuzhou, China), Jian Ding (Fuzhou, China), Hao Tan (Fuzhou, China) and Lei Lin (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a miniaturized MOPA structure DPSSL (Diode Pumped Solid State Laser), which comprises a laser oscillator module and a laser amplifier module. The laser oscillator module consists of a seed laser and its collimating system, and the l...