Patents by Inventor Scott R Domingue

Scott R Domingue 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).

  • Higher-order dispersion compensating pulse shaper via amplitude spectral filtering and nonlinear phase accumulation
    Patent number: 11757244
    Abstract: A method of pulse shaping using spectral filtering, positive chirp, and self-phase modulation to control the accumulated higher-order phase terms of the spectral phase. This pulse shaping method has particular advantage in fiber chirped pulse amplification (FCPA) systems, where there are two effects: (1) an offsetting of the fourth order phase via nonlinear phase accumulation, allowing for a higher Strehl ratio (i.e., a cleaner pulse), higher peak power pulse and (2) enabling power scaling to higher pulse energies without the increased nonlinear phase accumulation leading to pulse breakup. This technique can be used both in a passive system with no amplification to clean up an existing pulse, and in an amplifier system to enable higher performance operation (shorter pulses, cleaner pulses, higher energy pulses).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Thorlabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Domingue, Matthew S. Kirchner, Laura Wooldridge
  • HIGHER-ORDER DISPERSION COMPENSATING PULSE SHAPER VIA AMPLITUDE SPECTRAL FILTERING AND NONLINEAR PHASE ACCUMULATION
    Publication number: 20200395725
    Abstract: A method of pulse shaping using spectral filtering, positive chirp, and self-phase modulation to control the accumulated higher-order phase terms of the spectral phase. This pulse shaping method has particular advantage in fiber chirped pulse amplification (FCPA) systems, where there are two effects: (1) an offsetting of the fourth order phase via nonlinear phase accumulation, allowing for a higher Strehl ratio (i.e., a cleaner pulse), higher peak power pulse and (2) enabling power scaling to higher pulse energies without the increased nonlinear phase accumulation leading to pulse breakup. This technique can be used both in a passive system with no amplification to clean up an existing pulse, and in an amplifier system to enable higher performance operation (shorter pulses, cleaner pulses, higher energy pulses).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Scott R. Domingue, Matthew S. Kirchner, Laura Wooldridge
  • Integrated wavelength conversion and laser source
    Patent number: 10303040
    Abstract: An integrated, vertically stacked device includes a laser in an enclosure, a wavelength converter in an enclosure, a mechanical interface for attaching the enclosures and maintaining the laser and wavelength converter in the same plane, and apparatus for directing light from the laser to the wavelength converter within the footprint of the integrated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Kapteyn Murnane Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Kirchner, Sterling J. Backus, David Winters, Scott R Domingue
  • Integrated Wavelength Conversion and Laser Source
    Publication number: 20180224710
    Abstract: An integrated, vertically stacked device includes a laser in an enclosure, a wavelength converter in an enclosure, a mechanical interface for attaching the enclosures and maintaining the laser and wavelength converter in the same plane, and apparatus for directing light from the laser to the wavelength converter within the footprint of the integrated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew S. Kirchner, Sterling J. Backus, David Winters, Scott R Domingue