US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Dec. 9 for "Continuous wave output in a laser system arranged for pulsed output" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,614, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Continuous wave output in a laser system arranged for pulsed output" was invented by Kevin Michael Carbone (Portland, Ore.), C. Geoffrey Fanning (Portland, Ore.), Dennis McCal (Portland, Ore.) and Richard Farmer (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments may include a fiber laser system comprising: a pump combiner; a plurality of fiber laser pump modules arranged for pumping a pulsed output from the fiber laser system; and a pump controller to operate in a first operation mode to pump a pulsed output from the fiber laser system and to operate in...