Patent ID: 11867987
Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A homodyne phase-controlled beam-combiner system, the system comprising:
a first beam splitter configured to split a light beam into a plurality of beamlets;
a plurality of phase modulators, a phase modulator of the plurality of phase modulators is configured to tag each beamlet of the plurality of beamlets with an arbitrary phase dither signal;
a tiled array including a plurality of lenslets and configured to combine tagged beamlets to form a combined light and direct the combined light to a second beam splitter; and
an inphase-quadrature (IQ) receiver configured to generate I and Q light signals including tagging information,
wherein,
the arbitrary phase dither signal corresponds to an arbitrary phase setpoint or offset,
a first output light of the second beam splitter comprises a target light directed to a target, and
the arbitrary phase offset is configured to achieve a phase profile for the plurality of beamlets that produces a desired profile of the target light.