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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Dennis John Adams, Stow, OH (US);
Thomas Gustav Alley, Broomfield, CO (US);
Emanuel Solomon Stockman, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A laser apparatus comprising an aperture module array including two or more aperture modules, each aperture module of the array being optically couple-able to a source of coherent electromagnetic radiation and configured to emit a beam of radiation received from the source. The apparatus emits a composite beam comprising beams emitted by the respective aperture modules and modulates at least one of the beams in power and phase relative to at least one other of the beams such that a desired non-uniform composite beam profile is provided.