US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on March 17 for "Pulse modification apparatus comprising at least one pulse stretching and/or pulse compression device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,357, issued on March 17, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Pulse modification apparatus comprising at least one pulse stretching and/or pulse compression device" was invented by Raphael Scelle (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany), Holger Diekamp (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Aleksander Budnicki (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse modification apparatus includes at least one pulse stretcher for dispersive stretching of laser pulses and/or at least one pulse compressor for dispersive compression of the laser pulses, an actuator for setting a dispersion of the at least one pulse stret...