Apparatus for incoherent combining of high power lasers for long-range directed-energy applications
NRL
An embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of lasers comprising a plurality of laser paths. The apparatus further includes an incoherent combining beam director in the plurality of laser paths. The apparatus also includes a plurality of optical elements in the plurality of laser paths between the plurality of lasers and the beam director.
Inventors:
Sprangle, Phillip A.; Penano, Joseph R.; Hafizi, Bahman; Ting, Antonio C.; Fischer, Richard P.
Patent Number:
Technical domain:
Optics
FIle Date:
2008-03-20
Grant Date:
2011-06-28
Grant time:
1,195 days
Grant time percentile rank:
21
Claim count percentile rank:
2
Citations percentile rank:
1
'Cited by' percentile rank:
1
Assignee:
US NAVY
