 When Mr Schuler invested in the company, the name of the company was changed to Raydiance, where he raised a significant amount of venture capital funding to help commercialize new technologies of national interest, among them ultrashort pulse lasers.A form of optoelectronics, the lasers emits short pulses of highly concentrated energy that can be used to break down atoms.In 2004, Schuler joined Raydiance Inc. to develop commercial applications for ultra-short pulse lasers.