US Patent Issued to II-VI Delaware on July 21 for "Temperature control for coiled gain fiber in fiber amplifier" (New York, California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,171, issued on July 21, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Temperature control for coiled gain fiber in fiber amplifier" was invented by Eric T. Green (Corning, N.Y.), Aravanan Gurusami (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Joseph Mangano (Belfast, N.Y.) and Martin Seifert (New Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature controller is used for a gain fiber of a fiber amplifier. The controller includes a heat transfer structure and one or more temperature sinks, such as cooling plates. The heat transfer structure supports the gain fiber and is disposed in thermal contact with it. Portions of the temperature sin...