US Patent Issued to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES on March 3 for "Laser device and pulse width-changing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,711, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES (Mitaka, Japan).

"Laser device and pulse width-changing method" was invented by Takunori Taira (Okazaki, Japan), Taisuke Kawasaki (Okazaki, Japan) and Vincent Yahia (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device according to one embodiment includes a laser light source configured to output pulsed laser light L1 and a pulse width control unit configured to amplify the pulsed laser light output from the laser light source, change a pulse width of the pulsed laser light, and output the pulsed las...