Patent 7630425 was granted and assigned to Finisar on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Apparatus is disclosed for optically steering an optical beam, the apparatus comprising a pair of optical prism components arranged together with a diffraction grating so as to allow efficient coupling of an array of spectrally and spatially offset laser diodes to a common optical fiber. A method of optically steering at least one of a series of optical beams is disclosed, the method comprising providing a pair of optical prism components comprising a thermo-optic material; actuating at least one of the components so as to steer at least one of the series of optical beams received from an array of spatially and spectrally offset lasers.