US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Sept. 23 for "Spectral channel splicer for spectral beam combining laser system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,809, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Spectral channel splicer for spectral beam combining laser system" was invented by Hoang T. Nguyen (Livermore, Calif.), Michael C. Rushford (Livermore, Calif.) and Brad Hickman (Ripon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectral beam combining system includes a spectral channel splicer comprising a plurality of reflectors and a spectral beam combiner comprising a diffraction optical element such as a diffraction grating. The spectral beam combining system may further comprise at least one additional diffractive optical elemen...