US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 18 for "Pulse shaping using diffractive network device with modular diffractive layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,261, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Pulse shaping using diffractive network device with modular diffractive layers" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Deniz Mengu (Los Angeles), Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles) and Muhammed Veli (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffractive network is disclosed that utilizes, in some embodiments, diffractive elements, which are used to shape an arbitrary broadband pulse into a desired optical waveform, forming a compact and passive pulse engineering system. The diffractive network was experimentally shown to generate...