US Patent Issued to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN on Sept. 23 for "Method and arrangement for generating a supercontinuum by a ghost pulse" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,731, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (Berlin).

"Method and arrangement for generating a supercontinuum by a ghost pulse" was invented by Karsten Heyne (Beelitz, Germany), Valeri Kozich (Berlin) and Xingwen Zhang (ShenZhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for generating a supercontinuum, the method comprising the following steps: a) radiating a carrier laser pulse having a first temporal width onto a first non-linear material; b) at the same time, radiating a second shorter laser pulse having a second temporal width onto the first non-linear material, thereby changing the non-...