ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,684, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AMPLITUDE (Pessac, France).
"Laser system with temporal overlap of pulses" was invented by Martin Delaigue (Bordeaux, France), Clemens Honninger (Cestas, France) and Eric Audouard (Solignac-sous-Roche, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a pulse laser system including an injection system, an optical amplifier system and a beam combiner, the pulse laser system being designed to generate, on the one hand, an amplified pulse of short duration between 100 fs and a few hundred picoseconds and, on the other hand, another amplified pulse of long duration between a few picoseconds and ...