Patents by Inventor Glendon M. Frick

Glendon M. Frick 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).

  • System and method for generating eye-safe high intensity optical pulses with two backward-shifting raman cells
    Patent number: 8073017
    Abstract: A system and method for converting a pulsed beam of irradiation from a laser operating at a first wavelength to a pulsed beam of irradiation at a second, Stokes, wavelength. The system includes two Raman cells filled with the same Raman-active gas. The second cell receives a backward-propagating Stokes pulse beam from the first Raman cell, with the backward-propagating Stokes pulsed beam entering the second Raman cell in a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the incoming laser pulses at the first wavelength. The second Raman cell generates a high intensity output pulsed beam at the second, Stokes, wavelength. The system can produce a high intensity eye-safe pulsed beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: William P. Hooper, Glendon M. Frick, Benjamin P. Michael