Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for phasing a large number of laser sources
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Application No.: US15313542Application Date: 2015-05-26
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Publication No.: US09812840B2Publication Date: 2017-11-07
- Inventor: Jérôme Bourderionnet , Arnaud Brignon
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1401222 20140528
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/061524 WO 20150526
- International Announcement: WO2015/181130 WO 20151203
- Main IPC: H01S3/13
- IPC: H01S3/13 ; H01S3/10 ; H01S3/102 ; H01S3/08

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170201063A1 SYSTEM FOR PHASING A LARGE NUMBER OF LASER SOURCES Public/Granted day:2017-07-13
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