US Patent Issued to IPG PHOTONICS on Oct. 21 for "Ultrashort pulse laser source with chirped pulse amplification and tailored pulse train" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,662, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IPG PHOTONICS Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Ultrashort pulse laser source with chirped pulse amplification and tailored pulse train" was invented by Alex Yusim (Boston), Igor Samartsev (Westborough, Mass.), Manuel J. Leonardo (Marlboro, Mass.), Vadim Smirnov (Orlando, Fla.), Pankaj Kadwani (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Alexey Avdokhin (Southborough, Mass.) and Andreas Vaupel (Longmeadow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system and method. In one example, the laser system includes an optical pulse stretcher configured to stretch pulse durations of an input train of input pulses to produce a tr...