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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1985
John L Hughes, Canberra, AU;
Hughes Technology PTY LTD, Canberry, AU;
Abstract
This invention relates to a scalable, composite laser oscillator for generating a single laser output beam by phase locking and adding together a number of outputs from smaller laser fibre oscillators the ends of which are coherently packed into an optically polished face on to which a dielectric laser mirror is deposited, one of said faces acting as an output aperture for the scalable beam. The invention uses a computer to switch the laser gain medium of the sub-oscillators on and off and this switching process can be used to generate patterns on the output aperture of the system. The invention is useful as a compact source of laser beam energy for use in industry, medicine, commerce and defence.