US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on July 15 for "Fiber structure, pulse laser device, supercontinuum light source, and production method for fiber structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,532, issued on July 15, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Fiber structure, pulse laser device, supercontinuum light source, and production method for fiber structure" was invented by Ryota Kakei (Hamamatsu, Japan), Shin Kato (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masaru Shimomaki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Fumitsugu Fukuyo (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tomoya Nakazawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yu Matsushiro (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber structure includes first and second optical fibers disposed such that tip portions thereof butt and a sheet-shaped saturable absorber sandwiched between the tip portion of the first op...