Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device, system and method with cascaded burst mode laser amplified pumping oscillator signal
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Application No.: US15498757Application Date: 2017-04-27
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Publication No.: US10256592B1Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Gary P. Perryman , James R. Wood
- Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MD Bethesda
- Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Bethesda
- Agency: Beusse Wolter Sanks & Maire, PLLC
- Agent Terry M. Sanks, Esq.
- Main IPC: H01S3/30
- IPC: H01S3/30 ; H01S3/10 ; H01S3/00 ; H01S3/09

Abstract:
A device comprising a low-power oscillator having an oscillator output, the oscillator when triggered produces X number of oscillator pulses in series at a high repetition rate from the oscillator output, where X is an integer. The device comprises a plurality of X series coupled amplifiers having a common optical path. The plurality of X amplifiers amplify a power parameter of the X number of oscillator pulses. A first amplifier of the plurality of X amplifiers is coupled to the oscillator output. The plurality of amplifiers are triggered in sequence in accordance with the high repetition rate of the oscillator so that an output from a last amplifier of the plurality of X amplifiers is a burst of X amplified pumping oscillator (APO) pulses with high-peak power and high-average power over the burst of APO pulses. A system and a method are also provided.
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