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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
Damian Schimpf, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jens Limpert, Jena, DE;
Andreas Tuennermann, Weimar, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device () for amplifying light pulses (), the device comprised of a stretcher () which temporally stretches the light pulses (), and comprised of at least one amplifier () which amplifies the stretched light pulses (), and comprised of a compressor () which recompresses the stretched and amplified light pulses (), the stretcher () and the compressor () being dispersive elements with essentially oppositely identical dispersion. To provide a device () for amplifying light pulses () which is of a compact setup and which can be flexibly applied, the present invention proposes that the dispersion of the amplifier (), the dispersion of further optical elements of the device () and/or a mismatch of dispersion of the stretcher () and compressor () are at least partly compensated by self-phase modulation of the light pulses () and/or by at least one additional element () of variable dispersion.