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Clark-MXR, Inc. is a company located in Dexter, Michigan USA. It was founded in 1992 by the merger of Clark Instrumentation, Inc. and MXR, Inc. Clark Instrumentation, Inc. was formed in 1987 by Dr. William Clark to manufacture ultrafast pulsed-laser oscillators (sometimes referred to as ultrashort, femtosecond, or picosecond laser oscillators). MXR, Inc., was formed in 1991 by Dr. Philippe Bado and Professor Gerard Mourou to manufacture ultrashort-pulse amplifiers based on the concept chirped pulse amplification (CPA) invented in Professor Mourou’s group at the University of Rochester. Professor Mourou was also the first to recognize that new, different physics was involved in the interaction of ultrashort pulses of light with materials.