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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2017
Applicant:

Nkt Photonics A/s, Birkerød, DK;

Inventors:

John Redvers Clowes, New Milton, GB;

Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin, Southampton, GB;

Ian Michael Godfrey, Almonte, CA;

Assignee:

NKT Photonics A/S, Birkerod, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/108 (2006.01); H01S 3/11 (2006.01); G02B 21/16 (2006.01); G02F 1/35 (2006.01); H01S 3/23 (2006.01); H01S 3/10 (2006.01); H01S 3/102 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G02F 1/365 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/11 (2013.01); G02B 21/16 (2013.01); G02F 1/353 (2013.01); H01S 3/10 (2013.01); H01S 3/108 (2013.01); H01S 3/1024 (2013.01); H01S 3/10046 (2013.01); H01S 3/2308 (2013.01); G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6419 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6441 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0697 (2013.01); G02F 1/365 (2013.01); G02F 2001/3528 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of providing optical supercontinuum pulses can comprise generating optical pump pulses with an optical pump laser, the optical pump pulses having a pump pulse repetition rate; launching optical pump pulses into a nonlinear optical element comprising an optical fiber; generating optical supercontinuum pulses from the optical pump pules via spectral broadening within the optical fiber; selectively providing a plurality of different repetition rates for the optical pump pulses so as to generate optical supercontinuum pulses having different repetition rates; and providing nominally identical spectral broadening of the optical supercontinuum pules having the different repetition rates.


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