US Patent Issued to VALO Innovations on June 23 for "Method and system for generation of optical pulses of light" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,379, issued on June 23, was assigned to VALO Innovations GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and system for generation of optical pulses of light" was invented by Alexander Pape (Hannover, Germany) and Oliver Prochnow (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system for the generation of ultrashort optical pulses of light including an oscillator emitting low power and negatively chirped optical pulses with a spectral bandwidth W1, a dispersive connecting segment to maintain the sign of the chirp of the pulses of the oscillator, an optical amplifier for amplifying the optical light pulses and a negative group velocity di...