US Patent Issued to Thorlabs on Sept. 1 for "Widely tunable frequency doubled light source" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,320, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Thorlabs Inc. (Newton, N.J.).

"Widely tunable frequency doubled light source" was invented by Vijaysekhar Jayaraman (Goleta, Calif.) and Christopher Burgner (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A widely tunable frequency doubled light source includes a fundamental widely tunable laser emitting fundamental radiation tuned over a fundamental wavelength range and a broadband nonlinear waveguide which frequency doubles the fundamental radiation over a frequency doubled wavelength range. A preferred implementation of the widely tunable laser is a MEMS-VCSEL followed by a semiconduct...