Patent ID: 8531761

Claim:
An optical amplifier system comprising: a plurality of seed laser sources each configured to generate an optical beam having a unique wavelength to provide a plurality of wavelengths; first delay optics configured to uniquely delay each wavelength of the plurality of wavelengths to provide a waveform comprising a time series of the plurality of wavelengths; an amplifier configured to receive the waveform and to amplify each wavelength of the plurality of wavelengths to provide an amplified waveform comprising a time series of a corresponding plurality of amplified wavelengths; second delay optics configured to temporally overlap the plurality of amplified wavelengths to provide an output beam; dispersive optics optically coupled between the amplifier and the second delay optics and configured to receive and spatially spectrally disperse the amplified waveform; a transform lens optically coupled to the second delay optics and configured to receive the plurality of amplified wavelengths that have been temporally overlapped by the second delay optics and to spatially overlap the plurality of amplified wavelengths to form the output beam; and a grating optically coupled to the transform lens and positioned a focal length from the transform lens at a region of overlap of the plurality of amplified wavelengths, the grating configured to transmit the output beam.