Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optically monolithic beam shaper array with compact tiles
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Application No.: US16592178Application Date: 2019-10-03
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Publication No.: US11294192B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Gregory D. Goodno , Joshua E. Rothenberg , William H. Long
- Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US VA Falls Church
- Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Falls Church
- Agency: Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- Agent John A. Miller
- Main IPC: G02B27/09
- IPC: G02B27/09 ; H01S3/10 ; H01S3/067 ; H01S3/094 ; H01S3/0941 ; H01S3/16

Abstract:
A beam shaper array assembly including a beam source that provides a plurality of beams having a low fill factor profile. The assembly also includes an input beam shaper array having cells positioned adjacent to each other, where each cell includes an input beam shaper that receives one of the plurality beams and is shaped to cause the beam to expand as it propagates away from the input array to be converted from the low fill factor profile to a high fill factor profile. The assembly further includes an output beam shaper array having cells positioned adjacent to each other, where each cell includes an output beam shaper that receives one of the converted beams and is shaped to cause the beam to stop expanding so that the output array provides a plurality of adjacent beams with minimal overlap and a minimal gap between the beams.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210103152A1 OPTICALLY MONOLITHIC BEAM SHAPER ARRAY WITH COMPACT TILES Public/Granted day:2021-04-08
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