ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,618, issued on March 17, was assigned to NKT PHOTONICS A/S (Birkerod, Denmark).
"Optical sources" was invented by Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin (Southampton, Great Britain), John Redvers Clowes (New Milton, Great Britain), Pascal Dupriez (Leognan, France) and Michael Yarrow (Fareham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering apparatus for imaging a sample includes an optical output; an optical source arranged to generate a first optical signal at a first wavelength; and a nonlinear element arranged to receive the first optical signal, where the nonlinear element is arranged to cause the first...