| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 372013000 | Acousto-optic | 9 |
| 20080253407 | LASER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PULSED LASER RADIATION - A laser for generating pulsed laser radiation is provided. The laser includes a resonator, a laser-active medium arranged in the resonator, and an acousto-optic modulator arranged in the resonator. The modulator can be put in a first and a second state so as to set the resonator quality, the resonator quality being lower in the first state than in the second state, and comprising a control unit for controlling the modulator. The control unit effects phase-locked coupling of a high-frequency signal to be applied to the modulator in one of said two states, in order to generate a predetermined sound field in the modulator, and a switching signal designed to switch the modulator periodically between the two states. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090003392 | Multiple pulsed-laser system for silicon crystallization - Multiple laser resonators share a common acousto-optic Q-switch. The Q-switch is driven by a radio-frequency (RF) transducer that causes an acoustic wave to propagate in the Q-switch. Turning off the RF transducer discontinues propagation of the acoustic wave and causes each of the laser resonators to deliver an optical pulse. The finite velocity of the acoustic wave causes the pulses to be delivered temporally spaced apart. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090122814 | CORROSION RESISTANT COOLED ACOUSTO-OPTIC DEVICES - A corrosion resistant fluid cooled acousto-optic (AO) device includes an AO interaction medium and a piezoelectric transducer affixed to the AO medium. A cooling arrangement is thermally coupled to the AO medium and includes a first material, and at least one cooling conduit in thermal contact within the first material formed from a second different material having an inlet and an outlet coupled thereto. The conduit provides a channel having an inner surface for flowing a coolant fluid therethrough, wherein the conduit includes a continuous corrosion resistant material layer over its entire area of the inner surface. The first material provides a specific acoustic impedance closer to a specific acoustic impedance of the AO medium as compared to the corrosion resistant material, and a bulk thermal conductivity at 25 C of at least 75 W/m·K. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090232167 | ACOUSTO-OPTICALLY Q-SWITCHED CO2 LASER - A pulsed CO | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100215064 | Low loss crystal as a large aperture AO deflector - An acousto-optic deflector includes a body of material through which a laser beam to be modulated passes. The material has an acoustic attenuation in the range of 0.15 to 1.0 dB/μs-GHz | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100284429 | PULSED LIGHT GENERATOR AND PULSED FIBER LASER - A pulsed light generator of the invention includes: an excitation light source; a fiber grating into which excitation light from the excitation light source enters; a rare-earth doped optical fiber optically coupled with the fiber grating, in which a rare-earth element is doped into a core, serving as an optical transmitting section; an optical switch including a deflection element for causing a Q-switching operation; a first optical fiber that causes light from the rare-earth doped optical fiber to enter into the optical switch; and a second optical fiber for waveguiding pulsed light output from the optical switch. One surface side of the optical switch, into which light enters, is subjected to anti-reflection treatment with a reflectance with respect to a wavelength of the pulsed light output from the optical switch being 0.1% or less. A low-reflection section having a reflectance with respect to the wavelength of the pulsed light output from the optical switch of from 1% to 60% inclusive, is arranged on an other surface side of the optical switch, from which light is emitted. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100303105 | GENERATING PULSE TRAINS IN Q-SWITCHED LASERS - The invention relates to methods and systems for generating a pulse train having several individual pulses, wherein the individual pulses have a desired pulse characteristic, by means of a Q-switched solid state laser system, which includes, e.g., a modulator for influencing the pulse characteristic of the individual pulses. The methods include (a) generating individual pulses of a pulse train, each pulse having a pulse characteristic, by applying a temporal initial modulation signal; (b) detecting the pulse characteristic of the individual pulses of the generated pulse train; (c) generating a modified modulation signal in correlation to the detected and the desired pulse characteristic of the individual pulses of the pulse train, and applying the modified modulation signal to the modulator to generate a pulse train with a modified pulse characteristic; (d) repeating step (c) until the modified pulse characteristic fulfills a predetermined termination criterion and then using the modified modulation signal as an optimum modulation signal; and (e) generating a pulse train with the desired pulse characteristic of the individual pulses thereof by applying the optimum modulation signal. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110122897 | ACOUSTO-OPTICALLY Q-SWITCHED CO2 LASER - A pulsed CO | 05-26-2011 |
| 20150049775 | PULSE LASER APPARATUS - Provided is a pulse laser apparatus for generating laser light. The apparatus includes a first mirror and a second mirror which are disposed at both ends of a resonator and configured to reflect the laser light, a gain medium disposed between the first and second mirrors and configured to amplify and output light incident from an outside, an etalon configured to adjust a pulse width of the laser light, and an acousto-optic modulator disposed between the first and second mirrors and configured to form a mode-locked and Q-switched signal from the laser light, in which some of the laser light is output through either the first or second mirror to outside the resonator. | 02-19-2015 |
