US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on July 21 for "Tunable terahertz burst mode for pulsed laser" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,173, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tunable terahertz burst mode for pulsed laser" was invented by Simonette Pierrot (Dietikon, Switzerland), Andreas Oehler (Zurich), Felix Brunner (Zurich) and Benedikt Hermann (Schlieren, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable pulsed burst mode laser includes a beam splitting optical element; a plurality of optical path difference (OPD) tuning elements; a plurality of optical amplifiers; and a beam combining optical element. The beam splitting optical element is configured to split an input beam into a plurality of beams that are to prop...