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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Stephen P. Palese, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Avram Bar-Cohen, late of, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit, which includes at least one splitter configured to split at least one input beam into multiple input beamlets and multiple phase modulators configured to phase-shift at least some of the input beamlets. The apparatus also includes an array of optical amplifiers configured to amplify the phase-shifted input beamlets and generate amplified beamlets. The apparatus further incudes a beam combiner configured to combine the amplified beamlets and generate an output beam. In addition, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control the phase modulators in order to adjust phasing of the phase-shifted input beamlets.