ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,038, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Pulse equalization in Q-switched gas lasers" was invented by Vernon Seguin (Windsor, Conn.), David P. Schmelzer (West Hartford, Conn.), Joel Fontanella (Tolland, Conn.) and Peter Rosenthal (West Simsbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Q-switched gas laser apparatus with bivariate pulse equalization includes a gas laser, a sensor, and an electronic circuit. A Q-switch that switches the laser resonator between high-loss and low-loss states to generate a pulsed laser beam. The sensor obtains a measurement of the pulsed laser beam indicative of the las...