US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Feb. 10 for "Optical amplification device and optical amplification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,967, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical amplification device and optical amplification method" was invented by Takashi Sekine (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuma Hatano (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuki Muramatsu (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yasuki Takeuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yoshinori Tamaoki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical amplification device includes: a laser medium that amplifies input light to generate output light; an excitation light source that supplies excitation light used for amplifying the input light, to the laser medium; a resonator that includes a pair of first ...