ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,701, issued on June 17, was assigned to TIPD LLC (Tucson, Ariz.) and ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Laser generation apparatus and sources using the same" was invented by Yushi Kaneda (Tucson, Ariz.), Lloyd J. LaComb Jr. (Tucson, Ariz.) and Khanh Kieu (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser sources of the present invention allow for the efficient generation of harmonic frequencies from broadband sources. Over-compression and under-compression of a split signal result in two beams chirped in opposite directions. These two beams may be combined in a non-linear crystal to ge...