ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,717, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cybel LLC (Bethlehem, Pa.).
"Optical beacon source utilizing pulsed fiber amplifiers" was invented by Jean-Marc Pierre Delavaux (Pittstown, N.J.), Wiktor Tomasz Walasik (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Glen Munroe Williams (Alexandria, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulsed optical beacon source is formed of a fiber-based amplifier including a preamplifer stage (responsive to a CW seed laser source) and a booster stage coupled to the output of the preamplifier stage. The pump input to at least one stage is pulsed and controlled in a manner that allows for the formation of a pulsed beacon output that is ...