ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,999, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Coherent Scotland Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"780 nm ultrashort-pulsed fiber laser" was invented by Sean Reilly (Bearsden, Great Britain), Lee Cairns (Bearsden, Great Britain) and Volker Leonhardt (Anniesland, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An erbium fiber laser produces a beam of ultrashort laser pulses having a center wavelength greater than 780 nanometers, an average power greater than 0.5 watt, and a spectral bandwidth compressible to a pulse duration of less than 200 femtoseconds. The laser includes a fiber preamplifier that is energized by a counter-propagating pump beam...