The invention relates to a device for generating a sequence of
laser pulses consisting of pulse bursts. The object of the invention is to provide a possibility of generating
laser pulses for material
processing in the burst mode at a high quality based on the principle of beam combination. To that end, the invention proposes a device, comprising:at least one
laser (1, 14, 15) which generates
pulsed laser radiation in the form of a sequence of temporally
equidistant individual pulses,a combination element (4) which superimposes the laser
radiation supplied to the combination element (4) via at least two spatially separate input beam paths of different length, into pulse bursts in an output beam path (9),a
coupling optics (10) arranged in the output beam path (9),an optical
waveguide (11), wherein the
coupling optics (10) couples the laser
radiation superimposed in the output beam path (9) into the optical
waveguide (11) at the input side thereof, and wherein the optical
waveguide (11) guides the laser radiation primarily in a fundamental mode, anda decoupling
optics (12) which couples out the laser radiation from the optical waveguide (11) at the output side thereof. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method.