• Patent Title: SYSTEM FOR PHASING A LARGE NUMBER OF LASER SOURCES
  • Application No.: US15313542
    Application Date: 2015-05-26
  • Publication No.: US20170201063A1
    Publication Date: 2017-07-13
  • Inventor: Jérôme BOURDERIONNETArnaud BRIGNON
  • Applicant: THALES
  • Priority: FR1401222 20140528
  • International Application: PCT/EP2015/061524 WO 20150526
  • Main IPC: H01S3/23
  • IPC: H01S3/23 H01S3/10 H01S3/13
SYSTEM FOR PHASING A LARGE NUMBER OF LASER SOURCES
Abstract:
A system for phasing periodically configured laser sources, which comprises: means for collimating and directing the beams arising from the sources onto a combining diffractive optical element with a periodic phase grating, with an angle of incidence that differs from one beam to the next, these angles of incidence being determined according to the period of the grating; means for controlling the phases of the sources based on a negative feedback signal arising from the combined beams; means for drawing off a fraction of the combined beams; on the path of this fraction of the beams, a Fourier lens, with the combining diffractive optical element in its object plane; a matrix of detectors in the image plane of the Fourier lens, capable of detecting intensity distributions; means for calculating the negative feedback signal based on these intensity distributions.
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