ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,546, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES (Mitaka, Japan).

"Optical oscillator, method for designing optical oscillator, and laser device" was invented by Takunori Taira (Okazaki, Japan) and Hwan Hong Lim (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical oscillator includes a first reflection part configured to reflect light of a first wavelength, a laser medium excited by excitation light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength and configured to emit light of the first wavelength, a second reflection part configured to fo...