ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,977, issued on June 10, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Fiber laser with double-passed pump architecture" was invented by Gregory Goodno (Redondo Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber laser amplifier system including a first dual-clad delivery fiber receiving a signal beam and a pump beam, a doped amplifying fiber coupled to the first delivery fiber and receiving the signal beam and the pump beam, and amplifying the signal beam using the pump beam, and a second dual-clad delivery fiber coupled to the amplifying fiber and receiving the amplified signal beam and the pump beam. The sys...