US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations on Aug. 12 for "Fiber laser with two counter-propagating, orthogonally polarized pulses for high precision metrology" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,229, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Fiber laser with two counter-propagating, orthogonally polarized pulses for high precision metrology" was invented by Jean-Claude Diels (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Hanieh Afkhamiardakani (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for a bidirectional mode-locked all-polarization maintaining fiber laser with two counter-propagating, orthogonally polarized pulses are applicable in a variety of applications. A mode-locked fiber laser can be realized with a laser cavity including a first polarization maintaining gain...