Patents by Inventor Miao WENG

Miao WENG 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).

  • Patent number: 11402511
    Abstract: A spectrally-resolved Raman water lidar, including: a transmitter unit, a receiver unit, and a data acquisition and control unit. The transmitter unit includes a seeder, a solid Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) laser, a beam expander, and a first reflecting mirror to emit a 354.8-nm laser beam. The receiver unit includes a telescope, an iris, a collimator, a second reflecting mirror, a first bandpass filter, a beam splitter, a narrow-band interference filter, a third lens, a first detector, a second bandpass filter, a coupler and a home-made dual-grating polychromator to enable simultaneous profiling of backscattered Raman spectrum signals from water vapor, water droplets and ice crystals as well as aerosol fluorescence in the atmosphere. The data acquisition and control unit includes a computer to store the acquired data and guarantee an automatic operation of the lidar system through a time-sequence circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fuchao Liu, Fan Yi, Yunpeng Zhang, Changming Yu, Ying Tan, Yujin He, Miao Weng, Yang Yi
  • Patent number: 10620318
    Abstract: A single-line-extracted pure rotational Raman lidar system, including: a transmitter unit configured to emit extremely narrow-band laser light that is guided into atmosphere zenithward; a receiver unit configured to collect backscattered signals from the atmosphere; and a data acquisition and control unit configured to deliver data and guarantee automatic operation of the lidar system orderly. The transmitter unit employs a powerful injection-seeded Nd: YAG laser to emit 532.23 nm laser beam with a pulse energy of approximately 800 mJ, a repetition rate of 30 Hz and linewidth of <0.006 cm?1. The lidar system has an optical bandwidth of approximately 30 pm for the two Raman channels and an optical bandwidth of 0.3 nm for an elastic channel, as well as a field of view of approximately 0.4 mrad. The two Raman channels extract the N2 anti-Stokes pure rotational Raman line signals with J=6 and 16, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fan Yi, Miao Weng, Fuchao Liu, Yunpeng Zhang, Changming Yu, Yujin He, Ying Tan, Yang Yi, Xiangliang Pan
  • Publication number: 20190041525
    Abstract: A spectrally-resolved Raman water lidar, including: a transmitter unit, a receiver unit, and a data acquisition and control unit. The transmitter unit includes a seeder, a solid Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd: YAG) laser, a beam expander, and a first reflecting mirror to emit a 354.8-nm laser beam. The receiver unit includes a telescope, an iris, a collimator, a second reflecting mirror, a first bandpass filter, a beam splitter, a narrow-band interference filter, a third lens, a first detector, a second bandpass filter, a coupler and a home-made dual-grating polychromator to enable simultaneous profiling of backscattered Raman spectrum signals from water vapor, water droplets and ice crystals as well as aerosol fluorescence in the atmosphere. The data acquisition and control unit includes a computer to store the acquired data and guarantee an automatic operation of the lidar system through a time-sequence circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Fuchao LIU, Fan YI, Yunpeng ZHANG, Changming YU, Ying TAN, Yujin HE, Miao WENG, Yang YI
  • Publication number: 20180188376
    Abstract: A single-line-extracted pure rotational Raman lidar system, including: a transmitter unit configured to emit extremely narrow-band laser light that is guided into atmosphere zenithward; a receiver unit configured to collect backscattered signals from the atmosphere; and a data acquisition and control unit configured to deliver data and guarantee automatic operation of the lidar system orderly. The transmitter unit employs a powerful injection-seeded Nd: YAG laser to emit 532.23 nm laser beam with a pulse energy of approximately 800 mJ, a repetition rate of 30 Hz and linewidth of <0.006 cm?1. The lidar system has an optical bandwidth of approximately 30 pm for the two Raman channels and an optical bandwidth of 0.3 nm for an elastic channel, as well as a field of view of approximately 0.4 mrad. The two Raman channels extract the N2 anti-Stokes pure rotational Raman line signals with J=6 and 16, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Fan YI, Miao WENG, Fuchao LIU, Yunpeng ZHANG, Changming YU, Yujin HE, Ying TAN, Yang YI, Xiangliang PAN