Date: Feb 10, 2015 Source: U.S. Federal News Service (
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United States Patent no. 8,953,240, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telaris Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Frequency-chirped semiconductor diode laser phase-locked optical system" was invented by George Rakuljic (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chirped diode laser (ChDL) is employed for seeding optical amplifiers and/or dissimilar optical paths, which simultaneously suppresses stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and enables coherent combination. The seed spectrum will appear broadband to suppress the SBS, but the well-defined chirp will have the coherence and duration to allow the active phasing of multiple amplifiers and/or dissimilar optical paths."
