Coherent light generators – Particular beam control device – Having particular beam control circuit component
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-05
2008-03-18
Rodriguez, Armando (Department: 2828)
Coherent light generators
Particular beam control device
Having particular beam control circuit component
C372S029023
Reexamination Certificate
active
07346085
ABSTRACT:
A system or method coherently combines a large number of light beams at a single wavelength in multiple stages to form a high-power diffraction limited output beam. A two-stage system, or method based thereon, includes a master oscillator transmitting a light beam to a first phase modulation stage, which splits the beam into N beams and locks beam phases using phase correction signals from a first feedback loop. A second phase modulation stage splits each N beam into M beams and locks the phases of M beams in each N group using phase correction signals from a second feedback loop. A two-dimensional fiber array directs M×N beams to a first diffractive optical element combining the beams into N coherent beams of M beams each, and phase correction signals for the second stage are derived from a sample extracted from the N coherent beams. A second diffractive optical element combines the N coherent beams into the output beam, and phase correction signals for the first stage are derived from a sample extracted from the output. The diffractive optical elements may operate as both beam combiners and beam samplers.
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Rice Robert R.
Rothenberg Joshua E.
Wickham Michael G.
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Rodriguez Armando
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