US Patent Issued to WBC Photonics on June 10 for "Single emitter stacking for wavelength-beam-combining laser systems" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,974, issued on June 10, was assigned to WBC Photonics Inc. (Derry, N.H.).

"Single emitter stacking for wavelength-beam-combining laser systems" was invented by Wang-Long Zhou (Revere, Mass.), Michael Deutsch (Derry, N.H.), Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo (Middleton, Mass.) and Bien Chann (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, multiple laser emitters are arranged in one or more linear stacks and emit beams to one or more linear stacks of interleaving mirrors. The interleaving mirrors direct the beams to a shared exit point, thereby forming an output beam stack. The optical distances traversed by each beam...