Patents by Inventor John Edward Heebner

John Edward Heebner 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 waveguides having flattened high order modes
    Patent number: 8798422
    Abstract: A deterministic methodology is provided for designing optical fibers that support field-flattened, ring-like higher order modes. The effective and group indices of its modes can be tuned by adjusting the widths of the guide's field-flattened layers or the average index of certain groups of layers. The approach outlined here provides a path to designing fibers that simultaneously have large mode areas and large separations between the propagation constants of its modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Messerly, Raymond John Beach, John Edward Heebner, Jay Walter Dawson, Paul Henry Pax
  • OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES HAVING FLATTENED HIGH ORDER MODES
    Publication number: 20120321260
    Abstract: A deterministic methodology is provided for designing optical fibers that support field-flattened, ring-like higher order modes. The effective and group indices of its modes can be tuned by adjusting the widths of the guide's field-flattened layers or the average index of certain groups of layers. The approach outlined here provides a path to designing fibers that simultaneously have large mode areas and large separations between the propagation constants of its modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Messerly, Raymond John Beach, John Edward Heebner, Jay Walter Dawson, Paul Henry Pax