US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Feb. 24 for "Spectrally and coherently combined laser array" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,542, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Spectrally and coherently combined laser array" was invented by Almantas Galvanauskas (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Theodore Mathew Whittlesey (St. Clair, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system includes a signal source configured to generate input pulses, a diffraction grating module configured to stretch and split the input pulses into a plurality of spectral channels, a set of phase control devices, each phase control device being configured for spectral phase control of a respective spectral channel of the plurality of spec...