Patents by Inventor Steffen Weimann

Steffen Weimann 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: 11940648
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform, including an elongation process; and drawing the secondary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HERAEUS QUARZGLAS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Michael Hünermann, Martin Trommer, Kay Schuster, Steffen Weimann
  • Publication number: 20220363584
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Enrico Ehrentraut, David Kostka, Martin Trommer, Steffen Weimann, Michael Hünermann, Kay Schuster
  • Publication number: 20220357506
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform, including a process of elongating the primary preform in order to directly form the hollow-core fiber or to form the secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Martin Trommer, Steffen Weimann, Michael Hünermann, Kay Schuster
  • Publication number: 20220291443
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Michael Hünermann, Martin Trommer, Kay Schuster, Steffen Weimann
  • Publication number: 20220267193
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Michael Hünermann, Martin Trommer, Kay Schuster, Steffen Weimann
  • Publication number: 20220267192
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Martin Trommer, Steffen Weimann, Michael Hünermann, Kay Schuster, Yusuf Tansel
  • Publication number: 20220242773
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Michael Hünermann, Martin Trommer, Kay Schuster, Steffen Weimann, Oliver Ganz
  • Publication number: 20220244453
    Abstract: Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform, including an elongation process; and drawing the secondary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Rosenberger, Michael Hünermann, Martin Trommer, Kay Schuster, Steffen Weimann