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US 2025/0013120 A1Published application
Light source
AssigneeNkt Photonics A/S
InventorThomas Vestergaard ANDERSEN
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Abstract
A light source including: a pulse generator for providing a first sequence of light pulses, the first sequence of light pulses including a first number of light pulses within a predetermined time period, a manipulator configured to generate a second sequence of light pulses from the first sequence of light pulses, the second sequence of light pulses having a second number of light pulses within the predetermined time period, the second number being different from the first number, and a nonlinear optical element arranged to receive the second sequence of light pulses.
Claims20
A supercontinuum light source comprising:
- a pulse generator for providing a first sequence of light pulses;
- a manipulator configured to generate a second sequence of light pulses from a single light pulse of the first sequence, wherein the second sequence comprises at least two light pulses;
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- a nonlinear optical element configured to receive the second sequence of light pulses and generate a supercontinuum spectrum when said second sequence of light pulses propagates through the nonlinear optical element;
- wherein the at least two light pulses in the second sequence have substantially the same peak power.
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