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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2015
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Robert Stultz, Cypress, CA (US);
Brian Boland, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for beam coupling. In one example, a beam coupler includes a first beam displacer configured to receive a linearly-polarized signal seed having a first wavelength, and an unpolarized pump beam having a second wavelength, the unpolarized pump beam including first and second linear polarization components, the first beam displacer being further configured to spatially translate the first linear polarization component to co-locate the first linear polarization component with the linearly-polarized signal seed, a second beam displacer configured to spatially translate the second linear polarization component and recombine the first and second linear polarization components of the unpolarized pump beam, and to co-locate the unpolarized pump beam with the linearly polarized signal seed, and a dual-wavelength waveplate interposed between the first and second beam displacer, and configured to rotate polarizations of each of the first linear polarization component, second linear polarization component, and linearly-polarized signal seed.