US Patent Issued to Gigaphoton, Inter-University Research Institute, National Institutes of Natural Sciences on Feb. 3 for "Optical isolator, ultraviolet laser apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,115, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan) and Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Tokyo).

"Optical isolator, ultraviolet laser apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method" was invented by Yuki Tamaru (Oyama, Japan), Taisuke Miura (Oyama, Japan) and Ryo Yasuhara (Toki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical isolator according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first polarizer through which incident light transmits, a Faraday rotator configured to rotate the polarization direction of the light, and a second polarizer thr...