US Patent Issued to ZS Systems, Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 1 for "Metalenslet laser beam homogenizer" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,281, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZS Systems LLC (Lafayette, Ind.) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Metalenslet laser beam homogenizer" was invented by Sergey Zakharov (Lafayette, Ind.), Alexander Kildishev (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Omer Yesilyurt (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metalenslet beam homogenizer offers an alternative to classical beam homogenization techniques by leveraging flat optical metasurfaces. The metalenslet beam homogenizer would be beneficial, for example, for high power laser applications, such as laser material processing, digital projection, optical lithogr...