US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Feb. 24 for "Wavelength beam combining device, direct diode laser device, and laser processing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,551, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Wavelength beam combining device, direct diode laser device, and laser processing machine" was invented by Norihiro Dejima (Yokohama, Japan) and Masaki Omori (Toshima-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength beam combining device includes: a polarization beam splitter configured to separate the plurality of laser beams into a plurality of first polarized light beams linearly polarized in a first polarization direction and a plurality of second polarized light beams linearly polarized in a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first pol...