Patents by Inventor Richard Utano

Richard Utano 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: 5805623
    Abstract: A solid-state dye laser and technique for achieving multiple output wavelength laser emission from a single solid-state dye laser media containing multiple dyes without tuning elements. When the multiple dyes within the single solid-state host are excited with a single wavelength pump source to lase, there results simultaneous multi-spectral output proportional to dye concentration ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Richard Utano, Suresh Chandra, Toomas H. Allik, Timothy R. Robinson
  • Patent number: 5729376
    Abstract: An optical assembly using a centrally-obscured catadioptric optical objece that provides two different focal planes using the same set of optics. Both optical paths share the same optic axis and common line-of-sight. One focal plane is optimized for use with a high performance GEN II image intensifier tube, and the other is used for either laser receiver or emitter devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: John M. Hall, Dallas N. Barr, Richard Utano
  • Patent number: 5018163
    Abstract: A laser oscillator system which transmits laser input beam pulses through optical diode and into a plurality of time-multiplexed phase conjugate amplifier which sequentially amplify in chronological order subsequent input beam pulses. The optical diode is positioned on the oscillator laser beam pulse axis and is comprised of a polarizer, a half-wave plate which rotates the pulse polarity by 45.degree. in one direction and a Faraday rotator which rotates the pulse polarity 45.degree. in the opposite direction. A plurality of grouped Pockels cells and polarizers are positioned on the oscillator axis past the Faraday rotator. The polarizers route the input beam pulse toward a phase conjugate amplifier when a half-wave voltage is applied to the Pockels cell. Each phase conjugate amplifier has a phase conjugate mirror, at its output for retroreflecting the once amplified input laser beam pulse back therethrough for a second amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Geraldine H. Daunt, Richard A. Utano, Suresh Chandra