Patents by Inventor Armin Staudt

Armin Staudt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optical fiber composed of glass doped with laser-active ions of an element from the rare earths
    Patent number: 5366937
    Abstract: Optical fiber composed of a glass doped with at least laser-active ions of an element from the rare earths. An optical fiber of glass, preferably a HMF glass, doped with Tm.sup.3+ is operated at 1.48 .mu.m as a fiber laser or amplifier on the laser transition .sup.3 F.sub.4 -.sup.3 H.sub.4. Since this thereby involves a self-saturating transition, the terminal level is emptied in accelerated fashion for a continuous wave mode by co-doping with de-activators, preferably Ho.sup.3+, Tb.sup.3+, Eu.sup.3+ and/or Pr.sup.3+ ions. The pump light wavelength can be selected from the wavelength range from 700 through 890 nm of GaAlAs emission. The optical fiber can be used in optical amplifiers or fiber amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Schneider, Christian Gerndt, Armin Staudt
  • Method for producing an optical fiber of halide glass, particularly an infrared permeable fiber of heavy metal fluoride glass
    Patent number: 5256178
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing optical fibers from halide glass is provided. The method includes the steps of drawing a glass mass into a fiber in a dry gas atmosphere which contains a drying agent. In a further step of the process, an OH band which may still be present can be reduced by treating the fiber with a gaseous drying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Schneider, Armin Staudt
  • Process for producing optical fibers of high tensile strength
    Patent number: 5226940
    Abstract: A process for producing optical fibers of high tensile strength, wherein the fiber is pulled from a glass mass of halide glass and includes surrounding the fiber and mass with a dry gas atmosphere containing a drying agent which reacts with moisture and this dry gas atmosphere includes fluorine-containing agents, in particular NF.sub.3, as the drying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Schneider, Armin Staudt
  • Method for producing an optical fiber of halide glass, particularly an infrared permeable fiber of fluoride glass
    Patent number: 5201920
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing optical fibers from halide glass is provided. The method includes the steps of drawing a glass mass into a fiber in a dry gas atmosphere which contains a drying agent. In a further step of the process, an OH band which may still be present can be reduced by treating the fiber with a gaseous drying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Schneider, Armin Staudt