Eric C. Honea
27Patents
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37Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 21, 1998 → Jun 14, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7199924B1 | Apparatus and method for spectral-beam combining of high-power fiber lasers | Electricity | 96 | Expired |
| US7539231B1 | Apparatus and method for generating controlled-linewidth laser-seed-signals for high-powered fiber-laser amplifier systems | Electricity | 62 | Active |
| US8526110B1 | Spectral-beam combining for high-power fiber-ring-laser systems | Electricity | 48 | Active |
| US9366872B2 | Apparatus and method for fiber-laser output-beam shaping for spectral beam combination | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US6347109B1 | High average power scaleable thin-disk laser | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US7233442B1 | Method and apparatus for spectral-beam combining of high-power fiber lasers | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5936984A | Laser rods with undoped, flanged end-caps for end-pumped laser applications | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US8953647B1 | High-power laser using thulium-doped fiber amplifier and frequency quadrupling for blue output | Electricity | 34 | Active |
| US7535631B2 | Method and apparatus for spectral-beam combining of fiber-amplified laser beams using high-efficiency dielectric diffractive gratings | Physics | 21 | Active |
| US7876498B1 | Pulse-energy-stabilization approach and first-pulse-suppression method using fiber amplifier | Electricity | 20 | Active |
| US7701987B1 | Apparatus and method for generating chirp-slice controlled-linewidth laser-seed signals | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US6160934A | Hollow lensing duct | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US8411712B2 | Beam diagnostics and feedback system and method for spectrally beam-combined lasers | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US8472763B1 | Spectral beam combination of laser beams | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US6904069B2 | Parasitic oscillation suppression in solid state lasers using optical coatings | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6763050B2 | Method for optical pumping of thin laser media at high average power | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US9684077B2 | Frequency quadrupled laser using thulium-doped fiber amplifier and method | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US6222872A | Delivering pump light to a laser gain element while maintaining access to the laser beam | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US8254419B1 | Apparatus and method to suppress gain-switched spikes in fiber laser amplifier systems | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US9214781B2 | Fiber amplifier system for suppression of modal instabilities and method | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8363312B1 | Pulse-energy-stabilization and first-pulse-suppression optical gain fiber apparatus and method | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8630323B2 | Beam diagnostics and feedback method and system for spectrally beam-combined lasers | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US6937636B1 | Tapered laser rods as a means of minimizing the path length of trapped barrel mode rays | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US9927621B2 | Method and apparatus for fiber-laser output-beam shaping for beam combination | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US9835778B1 | Apparatus and method for a diamond substrate for a multi-layered dielectric diffraction grating | Electricity | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.