Patents by Inventor Timothy A. Dave

Timothy A. Dave 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: 4682340
    Abstract: The output of a laser oscillator is doubly passed through a birefringement medium, a quarter-wave plate and a laser amplifier by reflection from a phase conjugate mirror, the birefringent medium being between the oscillator and the plate in the path of the initial and reflected oscillator output. The birefringent medium divides the oscillator output into a first set of orthogonal polarization components (rays) and refracts one of them at a first angle successively through the plate and amplifier for reflection from the mirror through the amplifier, plate and medium. The reflected ray is amplified and then divided by the medium into a second set of orthogonal ray components which exit the medium at different angles away from the oscillator. In another embodiment, a second quarter-wave plate is added between the amplifier and mirror, and in a third embodiment the amplifier is positioned between the oscillator and the birefringent medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Government Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy A. Dave, Steve Guch, Jr.