US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Method for amplifying an optical seed beam" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,848, issued on July 29, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Method for amplifying an optical seed beam" was invented by Gregory Goodno (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for amplifying an optical seed beam in a fiber laser amplifier system. The method includes frequency modulating the seed beam to a carrier spectral band, amplitude modulating the seed beam that is synchronized with the frequency modulated seed beam, amplifying the seed beam using a pump power beam to provide an output beam where most of the beam power resides in the carrier spectral band, sampling off a sample beam f...