Patents by Inventor Peter Anthony Thielen

Peter Anthony Thielen 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 to remove light from cladding
    Patent number: 7349596
    Abstract: A system to remove cladding light from an optical fiber that includes a core and a cladding that surrounds the core. A volume of an index-matching material contacts an exterior surface of the cladding along a contact length of the optical fiber. The index-matching material has a refractive index that substantially matches a refractive index of the cladding at a predetermined clamping temperature and has a refractive index with a negative temperature coefficient, such that the index matching material distributively removes light from the cladding along the contact length based on the temperature of the index matching material that contacts the cladding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse Anderegg, Stephen John Brosnan, Peter Anthony Thielen