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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2022
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Michael H. Helle, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A fully programmable laser field shaping apparatus that can configure a beam of laser pulses in both shape and time to generate laser pulses with varying spatio-temporal profiles for adaptive nonlinear optical propagation. The laser field shaping scheme in accordance with the present invention, Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Optical Pulse Shaper (A-STOPS), utilizes dispersive elements and a programmable spatial varying optical element (e.g. deformable mirror, spatial light modulator, etc.) to impose spatial variations on each frequency component of a laser pulse. Each frequency component maps directly to a temporal slice within a chirped laser pulse. The result is the ability to generate complex spatio-temporal variation on a laser pulse with wide ranging applications in linear and nonlinear optics.