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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Nlight, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);

Inventors:

Aaron W. Brown, Vancouver, WA (US);

Dahv A. V. Kliner, Portland, OR (US);

Roger L. Farrow, Vancouver, WA (US);

Assignee:

nLIGHT, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/036 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01); B23K 26/067 (2006.01); B23K 26/064 (2014.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/028 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/03627 (2013.01); B23K 26/064 (2015.10); B23K 26/067 (2013.01); G02B 6/03616 (2013.01); G02F 1/0115 (2013.01); G02B 6/0281 (2013.01); G02B 6/03611 (2013.01); G02B 2006/12121 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are an optical beam delivery device, systems, and methods for sequentially adjusting, with respect to members of a set of confinement regions, a propagation path for establishing a controllable, temporally apparent intensity distribution. The disclosed techniques entail applying to a variable beam characteristics (VBC) fiber different states perturbation to change the propagation path and the members of the set of confinement regions through which a confined portion of an adjusted optical beam propagates, thereby establishing at an output end of the VBC fiber the controllable, temporally apparent intensity distribution.


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