Power scalable optical systems for generating, transporting, and delivering high power, high quality, laser beams

US7042631B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Coherent Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Duane D. Smith · Rancho Palos Verdes, US
• Wayne S. Pelouch · McKinney, US
• Narasimha S. Prasad · Yorktown, US
• Josef Robert Unternahrer · Lafayette, US
• John Koroshetz · Orlando, US
• Iain T. McKinnie · Denver, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 2002
• Grant date: May 9, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S5/50
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Power scalable, rectangular, multi-mode, self-imaging, waveguide technologies are used with various combination of large aperture configurations, 20, 50, 80, 322, 324, 326, 328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338, Gaussian 360 and super-Gaussian 350 beam profiles, thermal management configurations 100, flared 240 and tapered 161 waveguide shapes, axial or zig-zag light propagation paths, diffractive wall couplers 304, 306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 320 and phase controller 200, flexibility 210, phased arrays 450, 490, beam combiners 530, 530′, and separators 344, 430, and other features to generate, transport, and deliver high power laser beams.