US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Regents of the University of California on March 18 for "Apparatus and method for measuring and controlling chirp of ultrafast laser pulse" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,785, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) and The Regents of the University of California.

"Apparatus and method for measuring and controlling chirp of ultrafast laser pulse" was invented by Jingdi Zhang (Hong Kong), Xiaoyue Zhou (Hong Kong) and Richard Douglas Averitt (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure is related to a method for measuring and controlling linear chirp level of ultrafast laser pulse. The method includes steps as follows. A carrier-envelope phase-chirp (CEP-chirp) relation which serve as a chirp monitor is extracte...