US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER on May 20 for "Monolithic pulse compressor and associated adjustment method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,454, issued on May 20, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER GMBH (Schramberg, Germany).

"Monolithic pulse compressor and associated adjustment method" was invented by Dominik Bauer (Rottweil, Germany), Aleksander Budnicki (Gundelfingen, Germany), Raphael Scelle (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Michael Scharun (Schramberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse compressor includes a plurality of optical components. The plurality of optical components includes a diffraction grating. A first optical component of the optical components is fastened to base plate by at least first and second intermediate elements that are laser-welded...