US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on July 1 for "Eye safety interlock for fiber-coupled high power laser sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,595, issued on July 1, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Eye safety interlock for fiber-coupled high power laser sources" was invented by Tengda Du (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaojie Xu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Tsurugi Sudo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Martin Kwakernaak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is proposed for continuously monitoring the integrity of a transmission fiber coupled to a laser source and immediately shutting down the laser source upon recognition of any type of cut, break or disconnect along the transmission fiber. A pair of monitoring photodiodes is included with the laser source ...