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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2020
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
James G. Ho, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph M. Harkenrider, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Dustin Guenther, La Mirada, CA (US);
Gregory D. Goodno, Los Angeles, CA (US);
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A beam combiner array assembly including an array block having a back wall and a front surface and a plurality of aligned and sealed channels extending from the back wall to the front surface. A lens array including a plurality of lenses is secured to the front surface of the block so that one of the lenses is aligned with each channel, and a plurality of fiber flanges are secured to the back wall of the block so that a separate one of the flanges is aligned with each channel. A hollow core fiber extends through each flange and the back wall so that an end of the fiber is positioned within one of the channels. A beam that propagates down each fiber is emitted into the channel, focused by the lens and emitted from the assembly as a collimated beam.