Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc.

Joel Richard Blum

Bruce Gregory Tiemann

Glenn Taylor Bennett

Jesse William Fisher

Michael L Tartaglia

Luke L Wieczorek

Micah Boyd

Andrew Jonathan Gleason

Zachary William Prezkuta

Ezra Takara

Robert Andrew Sims

Ross Hartman

Samuel David Field

A planar waveguide laser crystal assembly includes an optical bench and a laser crystal mount mounted on the optical bench. The laser crystal mount includes an upper housing having an interior horizontal surface and an exterior horizontal, a lower housing coupled to the upper housing and having an interior horizontal surface and an exterior horizontal surface, and a cavity defined between the interior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings. A laser crystal is mounted in the cavity of the laser crystal mount. Each of the exterior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings is oriented parallel to a length of the laser crystal. The laser crystal assembly further includes a heat dissipating structure thermally coupled to at least one of the exterior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings to dissipate heat transferred from the laser crystal mount.

Systems and methods for planar waveguide mounting and cooling

An apparatus includes a source configured to generate a beam of electromagnetic radiation propagating in a first direction and a spatial filter. The spatial filter is configured to restrict the beam of electromagnetic radiation in one or more dimensions and includes at least one set of rods including a first rod and a second rod. The first rod is a first cylindrical structure with a first axis in a first plane and the second rod is a second cylindrical structure with a second axis in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The first axis and the second axis are longitudinal axes, and the first and the second rods have shaped surfaces in portions of their respective surfaces facing one another.

Spatial filters with high power handling capabilities

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Erie, CO, United States of America

Joel Richard Blum