Optical: systems and elements – Optical amplifier
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-17
2005-05-17
Hellner, Mark (Department: 3663)
Optical: systems and elements
Optical amplifier
C359S337300, C359S340000, C359S347000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06894828
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to guided wave systems, beam transport and waveguide techniques. The invention may comprise passive or active, hollow and dielectric core self-imaging mode wave guide systems, beam amplifiers (10, 40), laser resonators (70), beam transports, and waveguides. Embodiments may include rectangular cross-section waveguides, and preferably maintaining spatial profile of an input beam, such as a Gaussian beam, through the self-imaging period of the waveguide while unique new capabilities to mitigate non-linear distortions that corrupt spatial, spectral and temporal coherence and polarization. Additional aspects may include, for example, transport, amplification, phase/frequency control or modulation, deflection, conversion, synthetic aperture, distributed aperture, beam forming, beam steering, beam combining, power sampling, power combining and power splitting, among other features. Some embodiments may provide a self-imaging, multimode, waveguide (10) and self-imaging guided wave systems and beam transport. Embodiments of the present invention may further provide a method of self-imaging, multimode beam transport and other self-imaging wave guidance techniques.
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Pelouch Wayne S.
Prasad Narasimha S.
Smith Duane D.
Cochran Freund & Young LLC
Coherent Technologies, Inc.
Hellner Mark
Young James R.
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