ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,531, issued on July 15, was assigned to Applied Energetics Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Raman amplifier with shared resonator" was invented by Stephen William McCahon (Tucson, Ariz.), Alan Kost (Tucson, Ariz.) and Gregory J. Quarles (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonating optical amplifier includes a laser pump cavity defined by a first mirror and a second mirror with a laser pump gain medium configured within a first portion of the laser pump cavity and a Raman amplifier within a second portion of the laser pump cavity. A circulating pump-laser light is introduced to the laser pump gain medium forming a pump signal that...