ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,087, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Hamburg, Germany).
"Providing ultrafast high-energy laser pulses" was invented by Andreas Maier (Hamburg, Germany) and Lutz Winkelmann (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an ensemble of beamlets effectively acting as a high-energy laser pulse is disclosed. According to the method, a beamlet pattern with a plurality of spatially distributed laser beamlets is provided. The beamlets are spread in time by introducing a different temporal delay to each of the beamlets. The beamlets are spectrally broadened. The beamlets are i...