US Patent Issued to NLIGHT on Sept. 22 for "Laser diode system with low numerical aperture clad light stripping" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,361, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NLIGHT INC. (Camas, Wash.).

"Laser diode system with low numerical aperture clad light stripping" was invented by Jiamin Zhang (Camas, Wash.), Shuang Li (Camas, Wash.) and Manoj Kanskar (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments may include a packaged laser diode assembly, comprising: a length of optical fiber having a core and a cladding layer, the length of optical fiber having a first section and a second section, the first section of the length of optical fiber including a tip of an input end of the optical fiber; one or more laser diodes to generate laser light; one ...