Patents by Inventor William Taylor Lotshaw
William Taylor Lotshaw 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).
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Patent number: 7085497Abstract: A communication system includes an optical “LAN” (50) interconnecting a plurality of information sources (16a) and sinks (22a) with a light-to-electrical converter (36a) associated with an electrical RF transmitters (32a) and an RF-to-light converter (38a) to a receiver (34a). The transmitter is coupled by way of electrical-to-light converter (46a), and the receiver is coupled by way of light-to-electrical converter (44a), and by way of a directional coupler (76a), to an end of an optical bus (74a), so that light signals representing signals to be transmitted flow in one direction, and light signals representing received signals flow in the other direction through the bus. A directional coupler (72a) at the other end of the optical bus routes the transmit light signals to a light-to-RF converter (47a) which feeds a sink or antenna (12a), and received signals from a source or antenna are routed by way of an RF-to-light converter (40a) and the directional coupler (72a) onto the optical bus (74a).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Louis Frey, William Sven Barquist, Jr., William Taylor Lotshaw, Sandra Freedman Feldman, John Jesse Soderberg, George Allan Whittaker
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Patent number: 6670577Abstract: A method for laser shock peening a surface is disclosed. A laser beam pulse from a laser apparatus is produced. The laser pulse has a cross-section taken perpendicular to the laser beam, a fluence profile across the cross-section. The pulse against an area on said surface. The fluence profile is controlled such that process induced defects are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Phillip Randall Staver, William Taylor Lotshaw, Michael Francis X Gigliotti, Jr., Josef Robert Unternahrer, Robert Snee Gilmore, Thomas James Batzinger
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Publication number: 20030198475Abstract: A communication system includes an optical “LAN” (50) interconnecting a plurality of information sources (16a) and sinks (22a) with a light-to-electrical converter (36a) associated with an electrical RF transmitters (32a) and an RF-to-light converter (38a) to a receiver (34a). The transmitter is coupled by way of electrical-to-light converter (46a), and the receiver is coupled by way of light-to-electrical converter (44a), and by way of a directional coupler (76a), to an end of an optical bus (74a), so that light signals representing signals to be transmitted flow in one direction, and light signals representing received signals flow in the other direction through the bus. A directional coupler (72a) at the other end of the optical bus routes the transmit light signals to a light-to-RF converter (47a) which feeds a sink or antenna (12a), and received signals from a source or antenna are routed by way of an RF-to-light converter (40a) and the directional coupler (72a) onto the optical bus (74a).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Louis Frey, William Sven Barquist, William Taylor Lotshaw, Sandra Freedman Feldman, John Jesse Soderberg, George Allan Whittaker
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Publication number: 20030062350Abstract: A method for laser shock peening a surface is disclosed. A laser beam pulse from a laser apparatus is produced. The laser pulse has a cross-section taken perpendicular to the laser beam, a fluence profile across the cross-section. The pulse against an area on said surface. The fluence profile is controlled such that process induced defects are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Phillip Randall Staver, William Taylor Lotshaw, Michael Francis X Gigliotti, Josef Robert Unternahrer, Robert Snee Gilmore, Thomas James Batzinger
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Patent number: 6197133Abstract: A target is laser shock peened by directing against an ablative coating thereon a laser beam pulse having a fluence, duration, and corresponding peak power effective for ablating the coating to form a plasma and shock wave therein. The plasma is confined adjacent the target to plastically deform the target by the shock wave to develop residual compressive stress therein. The pulse has a duration less than ten nanoseconds and a corresponding peak power for increasing coupling efficiency between the pulse and plasma.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Josef Robert Unternahrer, William Taylor Lotshaw, Phillip Randall Staver
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Patent number: 6172790Abstract: A reflective modulator (10) includes a light splitter (12) which divides light into two portions, one of which is applied to a directional coupler (14) by a first path (20), and the other of which is applied to the directional coupler (14) by way of cascaded electrooptic (e-o) modulators (18a, 18b). One port of the directional coupler (14) is terminated in a reflector (22), and the other in an absorptive termination (24). Electrical signals A and B are applied to the modulators (18a, 18b), with the result of generation of sum and difference frequencies modulating the light. The light leaves the reflective modulator (10) and is coupled to a utilization apparatus (64) by a second directional coupler (28). A further e-o modulator (26) may be coupled in the first path, for controlling the long-term average phase shift. In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the signal sources (30a, 30b) are elemental antennas of an array (30).Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corp.Inventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Louis Frey, William Taylor Lotshaw
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Patent number: 6081358Abstract: A reflective modulator (10) includes a light splitter (12) which divides light into two portions, one of which is applied to a directional coupler (14) by a first path (20), and the other of which is applied to the directional coupler (14) by way of cascaded electrooptic (e-o) modulators (18a, 18b). One port of the directional coupler (14) is terminated in a reflector (22), and the other in an absorptive termination (24). Electrical signals A and B are applied to the modulators (18a, 18b), with the result of generation of sum and difference frequencies modulating the light. The light leaves the reflective modulator (10) and is coupled to a utilization apparatus (64) by a second directional coupler (28). A further e-o modulator (26) may be coupled in the first path, for controlling the long-term average phase shift. In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the signal sources (30a, 30b) are elemental antennas of an array (30).Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corp.Inventors: Jerome Johnson Tiemann, Richard Louis Frey, William Taylor Lotshaw
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Patent number: 6021142Abstract: A method of hygroscopic optical material fabrication comprising the steps of cutting a hygroscopic optical material to generate an optical substrate of appropriate dimensions and polishing the hygroscopic optical material for appropriate surface figure or surface quality. The cutting and polishing of the hygroscopic optical material is completed while the hygroscopic optical material is isolated from aqueous contamination so as to maintain or increase the damage threshold of the hygroscopic optical material.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1998Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Taylor Lotshaw, Phillip Randall Staver, Angel Luis Ortiz, Jr.
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Patent number: 5953354Abstract: A laser resonator includes a laser medium having opposite end faces inclined at Brewster's angle and disposed in optical alignment between spaced-apart and tilted first and second optical elements. A method for adjusting the optical alignment includes pumping the laser medium to produce a laser beam, and adjusting separation spacing between the two optical elements. Tilt of at least one of the optical elements is adjusted in response to any observed change in beam cross-sectional size. In an additional embodiment, the laser medium is initially positioned at about equal spacings between the first and second elements. Position of the laser medium is then adjusted, at a constant value of the separation spacing, to within a position range selected for a specific value of a ratio of intracavity peak power of circulation of the laser beam and a critical power for self-focusing to effect discrimination of mode-locked operation over continuous wave operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1998Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: General Electric Co.Inventors: Phillip Randall Staver, William Taylor Lotshaw
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Patent number: 5935467Abstract: An oven for heating a crystal for nonlinear frequency conversion of a laser beam. A grasping device resiliently grasps together the first and second sides of the crystal while allowing for generally unrestricted thermal expansion of the crystal. A heater element and a temperature sensor are each supported by the grasping device and are each in thermal contact with the crystal. A temperature controller is connected to the heater element and the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Josef Robert Unternahrer, Mark Jon Kukla, John Leo August, Jr., William Taylor Lotshaw
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Patent number: 5659415Abstract: An optical modulator includes pump and signal lasers optically aligned with an optical modulator element having a nonlinear refractive index. In operation, a pulsed optical pump beam is focused inside the modulator element for obtaining oscillatory sagittal and tangential mode radii thereof. A signal beam is propagated through the focus in the modulator element at a crossing angle with the spatially modulated pump beam for phase modulation thereof. Material nonlinearity due to electronic polarization or molecular orientation provides ultrafast rise times with correspondingly high modulation bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1996Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Phillip Randall Staver, William Taylor Lotshaw