US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Oct. 14 for "Optical fiber devices and methods for directing stimulated raman scattering (SRS) light out of a fiber core and into a cladding" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,896, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Optical fiber devices and methods for directing stimulated raman scattering (SRS) light out of a fiber core and into a cladding" was invented by Tyson L. Lowder (Vancouver, Wash.), Dahv A.V. Kliner (Portland, Ore.) and C. Geoffrey Fanning (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical fiber devices, systems, and methods for separating Raman spectrum from signal spectrum. Once separated, the Raman spectrum may be suppressed (e.g., as a result of a reduction in gain from the signal spectrum, and/or through dissipation of the Raman spectrum energy), while the s...