US Patent Issued to Northrop Grumman Systems on Nov. 3 for "Compact flat lens sampling optic for coherent beam combination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,347, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Compact flat lens sampling optic for coherent beam combination" was invented by Joshua E. Rothenberg (Los Angeles) and Juan Montoya (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser amplifier system including a seed beam source, a beam splitter splitting the seed beam into a plurality of amplification channels, a phase modulation device changing the phase of the beam in each channel, and an amplifying device provided amplifying the seed beam in each channel, where all of the amplified seed beams are transmitted into space as a coher...