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Title: Systems and conveyance structures for high power long distance laser transmission

Abstract

There is provided a mobile high power laser system and conveyance structure for delivering high power laser energy to and for performing high power laser operations in remote and difficult to access locations. There is further provide such systems with high power laser, handling equipment and conveyance equipment that are configured to avoid exceeding the maximum bending radius of high power optical fibers used with the conveyance structures. There are also provided embodiments of the conveyance structures having channels, lines and passages for delivering materials such as fluids.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Foro Energy, Inc., Littleton, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1531904
Patent Number(s):
8662160
Application Number:
13/210,581
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc. (Littleton, CO)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
DOE Contract Number:  
AR0000044
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2011-08-16
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

De Witt, Ronald A., Zediker, Mark S., Faircloth, Brian O., Grubb, Daryl L., McKay, Ryan P., Gray, William C., Moxley, Joel F., Rinzler, Charles C., Underwood, Lance D., and Deutch, Paul D. Systems and conveyance structures for high power long distance laser transmission. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
De Witt, Ronald A., Zediker, Mark S., Faircloth, Brian O., Grubb, Daryl L., McKay, Ryan P., Gray, William C., Moxley, Joel F., Rinzler, Charles C., Underwood, Lance D., & Deutch, Paul D. Systems and conveyance structures for high power long distance laser transmission. United States.
De Witt, Ronald A., Zediker, Mark S., Faircloth, Brian O., Grubb, Daryl L., McKay, Ryan P., Gray, William C., Moxley, Joel F., Rinzler, Charles C., Underwood, Lance D., and Deutch, Paul D. Tue . "Systems and conveyance structures for high power long distance laser transmission". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1531904.
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abstractNote = {There is provided a mobile high power laser system and conveyance structure for delivering high power laser energy to and for performing high power laser operations in remote and difficult to access locations. There is further provide such systems with high power laser, handling equipment and conveyance equipment that are configured to avoid exceeding the maximum bending radius of high power optical fibers used with the conveyance structures. There are also provided embodiments of the conveyance structures having channels, lines and passages for delivering materials such as fluids.},
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Wellbore laser operations
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Laser diode/lens assembly
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Optical fiber grating package
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Laser spectroscopy/chromatography drill bit and methods
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Monitoring of downhole parameters and tools utilizing fiber optics
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Fiber optic probe with integral optical filtering
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Hand-Held Laser Instrumentation Device
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Pressure impulse telemetry apparatus and method
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Dual wall drill string assembly
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Laser machining of a workpiece
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Off-axis rotary joint
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Apparatus for completing a subterranean well and associated methods of using same
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Well perforating apparatus and method
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Spoolable flexible sliding sleeve
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Fiber optic cables coupling and methods therefor
patent, May 2012


Laser light source, method of laser oscillation, and method of laser processing
patent-application, November 2006


Laser pile cutter
patent, April 1979


Disconnect check valve mechanism for coiled tubing
patent, October 2004


Methods of well stimulation during drilling operations
patent-application, October 2005


Linear aperture pseudospark switch
patent, August 2000


Use of Distributed Temperature Sensors During Wellbore Treatments
patent-application, July 2004


Laser boring method and system
patent, March 2005


Methods Useful for Controlling Fluid Loss in Subterranean Formations
patent-application, March 2012


Control System For High Power Laser Drilling Workover And Completion Unit
patent-application, October 2012


Well system
patent, February 2007


Single-mode optical fiber
patent, September 2009


Small Core Generation and Analysis At-Bit as LWD Tool
patent-application, January 2012


Methane extraction method and apparatus using high-energy diode lasers or diode-pumped solid state lasers
patent-application, November 2007


Methods useful for controlling fluid loss during sand control operations
patent-application, November 2006


Implosion shaped charge perforator
patent, August 1989


Providing a light cell in a wellbore
patent, December 2005


Method and device for excavating submerged stratum
patent-application, May 2009


Latching Configuration for a Microtunneling Apparatus
patent-application, November 2011


Method and apparatus for the injection of cable into coiled tubing
patent, April 1996


Subterranean well pressure and temperature measurement
patent, October 2005


Method for determining the relative clay content of well core
patent, December 2000


In-situ laser retorting of oil shale
patent, December 1977


Aluminum riser apparatus, system and method
patent, September 2003


Wellbore laser operations
patent, June 2013


Formation cutting method and system
patent, May 2002


Method and apparatus for performing rapid isotopic analysis via laser spectroscopy
patent-application, August 2003


Undersea telecommunications cable having optical fibers in a tube
patent, June 1992


Multiple pass optical rotary joint
patent, February 1988


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    patent, January 2018


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    patent, July 2015