Patents by Inventor Erik Benkler

Erik Benkler 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).

  • Method for generating coherent-phase light fields having a predefinable value of the frequency thereof, and optical frequency synthesizer
    Patent number: 8743919
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating coherent-phase light having a predefinable frequency value (?Soll), comprising the steps of generating working light with a working frequency (?SL), generating a frequency comb (10), which is a light field that consists of equidistant coherent-phase spectral lines, selecting a comb line (having the index m) from the frequency comb (10) having a frequency (?m), generating a frequency shift (??) of the frequency comb (10) and/or the working frequency (?SL) by means of time-dependent phase settings (?S(t)) modulo a multiple of 2?, in particular of 2?, and phase-coupling the possibly frequency-shifted fields of the working light (?SL) and the one possibly frequency-shifted frequency comb line (?m), so that the frequencies thereof are rigidly phase-coupled via the frequency shift (??), and working light having the desired frequency (?Soll) is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch das Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft und Technologie, dieses vertreten durch den Praesidenten der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesantalt
    Inventors: Harald Telle, Erik Benkler
  • METHOD FOR GENERATING COHERENT-PHASE LIGHT FIELDS HAVING A PREDEFINABLE VALUE OF THE FREQUENCY THEREOF, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER
    Publication number: 20140112360
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating coherent-phase light having a predefinable frequency value (?Soll), comprising the steps of generating working light with a working frequency (?SL), generating a frequency comb (10), which is a light field that consists of equidistant coherent-phase spectral lines, selecting a comb line (having the index m) from the frequency comb (10) having a frequency (?m), generating a frequency shift (??) of the frequency comb (10) and/or the working frequency (?SL) by means of time-dependent phase settings (?S(t)) modulo a multiple of 2?, in particular of 2?, and phase-coupling the possibly frequency-shifted fields of the working light (?SL) and the one possibly frequency-shifted frequency comb line (?m), so that the frequencies thereof are rigidly phase-coupled via the frequency shift (??), and working light having the desired frequency (?Soll) is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch das Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft und Technologie,
    Inventors: Harald Telle, Erik Benkler