US Patent Issued to General Atomics on Aug. 25 for "Optical device for beam combination in heterodyne interferometers and polarimeters and its use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,154, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to General Atomics (San Diego).

"Optical device for beam combination in heterodyne interferometers and polarimeters and its use" was invented by Michael Anthony Van Zeeland (San Diego) and Tsuyoshi Akiyama (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for laser diagnostics systems (e.g., systems and methods for beam combination in heterodyne interferometers and polarimeters). For instance, a laser beam combiner, including a modulator and a wedge combiner, may be implemented in a heterodyne dispersion interferometer. In some cases, a modulator receiv...