US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on June 23 for "Optical arrangement for pulse compression of a pulsed laser beam, and laser system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,369, issued on June 23, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Optical arrangement for pulse compression of a pulsed laser beam, and laser system" was invented by Aleksander Budnicki (Waldkirch, Germany), Raphael Scelle (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Hans-Juergen Otto (Dunningen OT Seedorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical arrangement for pulse compression of a pulsed laser beam includes a grating arrangement comprising at least one diffraction grating, and a beam-expanding device comprising at least one beam-expanding optical element for forming a divergent pulsed laser beam that enters the...