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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Nlight, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
nLIGHT, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/02 (2006.01); C03B 37/023 (2006.01); C03B 37/025 (2006.01); H01S 3/067 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 37/0253 (2013.01); H01S 3/06745 (2013.01); C03B 2203/10 (2013.01); C03B 2205/08 (2013.01); C03B 2205/13 (2013.01); C03B 2205/44 (2013.01);
Abstract
Tapered core fibers are produced using tapered core rods that can be etched or ground so that a fiber cladding has a constant diameter. The tapered core can be an actively doped core, or a passive core. One or more sleeving tubes can be collapsed onto a tapered core rod and exterior portions of the collapsed sleeving tubes can be ground to provide a constant cladding diameter in a fiber drawn from the preform.