Abstract: A broadband light source device (100) for creating broadband light pulses (1) comprises a hollow-core fiber (10) of non-bandgap type including a filling gas and being arranged for creating the broadband light pulses (1) by an optical nonlinear broadening of pump laser pulses (2), wherein the hollow-core fiber (10) has an axial hollow light guiding fiber core (11), which supports core modes of a guided light field, and an inner fiber structure (12), which surrounds the fiber core (11) and which supports transverse wall modes of the guided light field, and a pump laser source device (20) being arranged for creating and providing the pump laser pulses (2) at an input side (13) of the hollow-core fiber (10), wherein the transverse wall modes include a fundamental transverse wall mode and second and higher order transverse wall modes, the broadband light pulses (1) have a core mode spectrum being determined by a fiber length, a fiber core diameter, at least one pump pulse and/or beam parameter of the pump laser pu
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 9, 2017
Date of Patent:
June 23, 2020
Assignee:
Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
Inventors:
Patrick Sebastian Uebel, Philip St. J. Russell, Sebastian Thomas Bauerschmidt
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for continuous production of dihydroartemisinin and also artemisinin derivatives derived from dihydroartemisinin by using artemisinin or dihydroartemisinic acid (DHAA) as starting material as well as to a continuous flow reactor for producing dihydroartemisinin as well as the artemisinin derivatives. It was found that the reduction of artemisinin to dihydroartemisinin in a continuous process requires a special kind of reactor and a special combination of reagents comprising a hydride reducing agent, at least one activator such as an inorganic activator, at least one solid base, at least one aprotic solvent and at least one C1-C5 alcohol.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 14, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 31, 2017
Assignee:
Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
Inventors:
Daniel Kopetzki, David Tyler McQuade, Peter H. Seeberger, Kerry Gilmore
Abstract: The invention relates to the identification and selection of novel genomic regions (biomarker) and the identification and selection of novel genomic region combinations which are hypermethylated in subjects with prostate cancer compared to subjects without prostate cancer. Nucleic acids which selectively hybridize to the genomic regions and products thereof are also encompassed within the scope of the invention as are compositions and kits containing said nucleic acids and nucleic acids for use in diagnosing prostate cancer. Further encompassed by the invention is the use of nucleic acids which selectively hybridize to one of the genomic regions or products thereof to monitor disease regression in a patient and the efficacy of therapeutic regimens.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2012
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2017
Assignee:
Max-Plank-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V.
Inventors:
Michal Schweiger, Hans Lehrach, Stefan Boerno, Thorsten Schlomm, Holger Sueltmann, Guido Sauter
Abstract: Mode-locked laser comprising an active medium for the emission of a fundatal frequency radiation w1, with a resonator which is defined by a first mirror and a second mirror and in which the active medium is disposed, and a nonlinear optical means which is arranged between the active medium and the second mirror and which in combination with the second mirror effects a preferred reflection of radiation of higher intensity compared with radiation of lower intensity and it converts a fundamental-frequency radiation reversibly into radiation of a first frequency and radiation of a second frequency in such a manner that with increasing intensity the fraction of the radiation of the second frequency increases, and that the second mirror reflects at the second frequency to a greater extent than at the first frequency.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 1988
Date of Patent:
April 3, 1990
Assignee:
Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.