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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2012
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Gregory D. Goodno, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Eric Cheung, Torrance, CA (US);
William H. Long, Torrance, CA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A nested loop system for combining coherent laser beams, The system includes multiple laser amplifiers each configured for emitting one of the laser beams, an output beam splitter configured for sampling each laser beam and for coupling each sampled laser beam to an inner feedback loop module, an output beam sampler configured for splitting the combined beam into a primary and a sampled output beam and for coupling the sampled output beam to the inner feedback loop module, multiple inner loop phase modulators each paired with one of the laser amplifiers, and the inner feedback loop module. For each laser amplifier the inner feedback loop module is configured to use the sampled output beam and the sampled laser beam associated with that laser amplifier to create a different inner loop feedback signal and to couple that inner loop feedback signal to that laser amplifier paired inner loop phase modulator.