US Patent Issued to ASML NETHERLANDS on Aug. 4 for "Hollow-core optical fiber based radiation source" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,303, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Hollow-core optical fiber based radiation source" was invented by Willem Richard Pongers (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Patrick Sebastian Uebel (Marloffstein, Germany) and Johannes Richard Karl Kohler (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation source including: a hollow core optical fiber having a body having a hollow core for confining a working medium, the hollow core optical fiber being operable to receive pulsed pump radiation such that the received pulsed pump radiation propagates through the hollow core from an input end to an outp...