US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on July 15 for "Laser device, and laser waveform control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,539, issued on July 15, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Laser device, and laser waveform control method" was invented by Takashi Kurita (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yoshinori Kato (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Toshiyuki Kawashima (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser element, a waveform calculation unit for calculating input waveform data, a driver circuit for supplying a drive current having a temporal waveform according to the input waveform data to the semiconductor laser element, an optical amplifier for amplifying laser light output from the semiconductor ...