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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2011
Paulo Almeida, Southampton, GB;
John Redvers Clowes, Lymington, GB;
Pascal Dupriez, Leognan, FR;
Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin, Southampton, GB;
Paulo Almeida, Southampton, GB;
John Redvers Clowes, Lymington, GB;
Pascal Dupriez, Leognan, FR;
Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin, Southampton, GB;
Fianium Ltd., Southampton, GB;
Abstract
A method of tuning the time duration of laser output pulses, the method including spectrally dispersing optical pulses and further comprising providing an optical pulse having a time duration and a spectral bandwidth; spectrally dispersing () the optical pulse so as to provide a selected change in the time duration of the pulse responsive to the spectral bandwidth of the pulse; outputting () an optical output pulse having a first time duration that is responsive to the selected change in time duration; providing another optical pulse; changing the amount of spectral bandwidth of the another optical pulse () to be different than that of the optical pulse or changing the amount of spectral dispersion so that spectrally dispersing the another optical pulse provides a change in time duration that is different than the selected change; and outputting () another optical output pulse having a second time duration that is responsive to the different change in time duration, the second time duration of the another optical output pulse being different than the first time duration of the optical output pulse.