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Semiconductor
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Pump cavity
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End-pumped laser | 5 |
| 20080273570 | Optically Pumped Waveguide Laser With a Tapered Waveguide Section - The present invention relates to an optically pumped waveguide laser ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20110064112 | SOLID-STATE LASER WITH WAVEGUIDE PUMP PATH (Z PUMP) - Output beam from laser diode bar ( | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110317736 | LINEAR CAVITY OF ALL-FIBER-BASED ULTRA SHORT PULSE LASER SYSTEM - A linear-cavity all-fiber-based ultra short pulse laser system is provided. The all-fiber-based ultra short pulse laser system includes a pulse pump light source, a gain fiber, a first fiber signal pump combining unit, a broadband optical isolator, a fiber saturable absorber, an assistant light source, a second fiber signal pump combining unit, and a light coupling output. A broadband amplified spontaneous emission, emitted by the first fiber signal pump combining unit, which is connected to the pulse pump light source and the gain fiber, passes through the broadband optical isolator. The second fiber signal pump combining unit is connected to the assistant light source and the fiber saturable absorber. An ASE signal actively provides passive mode locking of the cavity, and the light coupling output partially outputs the laser. A dispersion fiber controls the temporal width. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20130329762 | ENHANCED OPTICAL PUMPING OF MATERIALS EXHIBITING POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT ABSORPTION - An optically pumped laser oscillator or amplifier includes a laser head having a gain medium exhibiting polarization-dependent absorption along two crystallographic axes and a pump source producing a pump beam. The medium's absorption coefficients along both said crystallographic axes are equal or the difference between the absorption coefficients relative to the lowest absorption coefficients R=Abs(α | 12-12-2013 |
| 20160197450 | LASER AMPLIFICATION DEVICE | 07-07-2016 |
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Excited phosphor | 3 |
| 20080259987 | Enhanced Emission of Light From Organic Light Emitting Diodes - A device comprising an organic light emitting diode coupled to a cavity, said cavity containing an emitting species, said device being arranged such that light emitted from said organic light emitting diode is at least partially absorbed by the emitting species and re-emitted from the emitting species. The device may be arranged such that the emitting species acts as the gain media of a laser, and the organic light emitting diode may be arranged to pump the emitting species. Also provided is method of generating light, said method comprising: coupling an organic light emitting diode to a cavity, said cavity containing an emitting species, said organic light emitting diode and said cavity being arranged such that light emitted from said organic light emitting diode is at least partially absorbed by the emitting species; operating said organic light emitting diode to emit light which is at least partially absorbed by the emitting species; and re-emitting light from the emitting species. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100054296 | TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATING APPARATUS AND TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATING METHOD - A terahertz wave generating apparatus includes an excitation light source for outputting an excitation light at a predetermined wavelength, an optical crystal being excited by an irradiation with the excitation light in order to generate a terahertz wave and terahertz wave amplifying means for repeatedly performing an optical parametric amplification for the terahertz wave by use of the excitation light, wherein the terahertz wave amplifying means includes an optical waveguide having the optical crystal serving as a core and a medium serving as a clad whose refractive index is smaller than a refractive index of the optical crystal, and the inputted excitation light is propagated within the optical waveguide with fulfilling a condition for a total reflection. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110069732 | ENHANCED EMISSION OF LIGHT FROM ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES - A device comprising an organic light emitting diode coupled to a cavity, said cavity containing an emitting species, said device being arranged such that light emitted from said organic light emitting diode is at least partially absorbed by the emitting species and re-emitted from the emitting species. The device may be arranged such that the emitting species acts as the gain media of a laser, and the organic light emitting diode may be arranged to pump the emitting species. | 03-24-2011 |
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Heat | 2 |
| 20110235670 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PUMP LIGHT SOURCE HAVING A DIODE LASER - A method is for operating a pump light source having a diode laser, which provides a pump light, in particular for optical pumping of a laser device. The pump light source is activated in a first mode of operation such that the diode laser assumes a predefinable target temperature, which lies in a range of a maximum of the coefficient of absorption of the laser-active solid of the laser device. In a second mode of operation, following the first mode of operation, the pump light source is activated such that it generates pump light to build up a population inversion in the laser-active solid of the laser device. In a third mode of operation, following the second mode of operation, the pump light source is activated such that it generates pump light to activate a laser operation in the laser device, the activation time in the third mode of operation being less than an activation time in the second mode of operation, and/or an activation current in the third mode of operation being greater than an activation current in the second mode of operation. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20140072010 | Ti: SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL FIBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND WIDE BAND LIGHT SOURCE USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a crystal fiber, and more particularly to a Ti: sapphire crystal fiber, a manufacturing method thereof, and a wide band light source with the same. The Ti: sapphire single crystal is grown by means of laser-heated pedestal growth (LHPG) method into a crystal fiber of a predetermined diameter. The as-grown crystal fiber is annealed for enhancing its fluorescence and reducing the infra-red residual absorption. The annealed crystal fiber is inserted into a glass capillary and is grown into a single-clad crystal fiber. The wide band light source comprises: a pumping source for providing a pumping light; a single-clad Ti: sapphire crystal fiber for absorbing the pumping light and emitting the wide band light. | 03-13-2014 |
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High-energy particles | 2 |
| 20130322484 | ELECTRON-BEAM-PUMPED LIGHT SOURCE - The present invention is intended to provide an electron-beam-pumped light source capable of irradiating one surface of a semiconductor light-emitting device uniformly with an electron beam, and capable of obtaining a high light output without increasing an accelerating voltage of the electron beam and, in addition, capable of efficiently cooling the semiconductor light-emitting device. An electron-beam-pumped light source of the present invention includes: an electron beam source and a semiconductor light-emitting device excited by an electron beam emitted from the electron beam source, and characterized in that the electron beam source includes a planar electron beam emitting portion and arranged in the periphery of the semiconductor light-emitting device, and light exits from a surface through which the electron beam from the electron beam source of the semiconductor light-emitting device enters. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140314114 | Short Period Undulator - The invention relates to a method for generating electromagnetic radiation (preferably UV, VUV, XUV, or X-rays), to an optical short-period undulator ( | 10-23-2014 |
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Plasma | 2 |
| 20150049778 | System and Method for Separation of Pump Light and Collected Light in a Laser Pumped Light Source - A system for separating plasma pumping light and collected broadband light includes a pump source configured to generate pumping illumination including at least a first wavelength, a gas containment element for containing a volume of gas, a collector configured to focus the pumping illumination from the pumping source into the volume of gas to generate a plasma within the volume of gas, wherein the plasma emits broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength and an illumination separation prism element positioned between a reflective surface of the collector and the pump source and arranged to spatially separate the pumping illumination including the first wavelength and the emitted broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength emitted from the plasma. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150085892 | All Optical High Energy Radiation Source - A method for producing electromagnetic radiation comprising: firing a first laser pulse and generating a plasma region, the first laser pulse penetrating at least partially into the plasma region to create a plasma density wake in the plasma region; providing a group of charged particles in the plasma region arranged so as to be accelerated in the plasma density wake of the first laser pulse; reflecting the first laser pulse after the first laser pulse has penetrated into the plasma region, to give a reflected laser pulse; and arranging the reflected laser pulse to interact with the group of charged particles to generate an electromagnetic radiation. | 03-26-2015 |
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Exploding or combustible material | 1 |
| 20110019711 | Portable Laser Source - A portable laser source includes a flash lamp assembly defining a hollow central channel, an elongate laser rod extending within the hollow channel for receiving a flash of light emitted by the surrounding flash lamp assembly, and a hermetically-sealed enclosure housing both the flash lamp assembly and the laser rod and including at least one optical transmission window for transmitting a laser beam emitted by the laser rod. Preferably, the flash lamp assembly is hermetically-sealed from the laser rod within the enclosure to maintain physical and electrical isolation of the laser rod from combustible and electrically conductive components of the flash lamp assembly. The combustible component of the flash lamp assembly can include Zr wool and an accelerant, or like materials for emitting a flash of light. The laser source can include a second window used to test the condition of the laser rod via application of an external test light to activate the laser rod within the sealed enclosure. | 01-27-2011 |
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Solar | 1 |
| 20110274134 | SOLAR PUMPED LASER MICROTHRUSTER - A micro-thruster for controlling the positioning of a satellite includes a solar concentrator for collecting solar energy and producing concentrated solar energy. A solar panel is positioned to receive the concentrated solar energy and thereby produces electrical energy which in turn energizes a diode-pumped fiber optic laser. The energized laser thus produces laser light which is transmitted to ejector material affixed to a satellite. | 11-10-2011 |
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| 20080212638 | Laser - A laser device and a method of pumping a laser gain medium (R) comprise directing pulses of laser light from a pump laser ( | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080259986 | Laser light source apparatus and image generating apparatus using such laser light source apparatus - Disclosed is a laser light source apparatus. The laser light source apparatus includes a pumping light source and a pair of resonator mirrors. In the laser light source apparatus, the pumping light source includes at least a laser medium and a wavelength conversion element, and the laser medium is pumped by light having a multi-transversal mode pattern and the wavelength conversion element are irradiated with a line beam of fundamental wave obtained by the oscillation by the laser medium to output a line beam of converted wave. The laser light source apparatus further includes at least one reflector bending light path is provided in the resonator such that a longitudinal direction of the line beam of fundamental wave is approximately perpendicular to an incident plane of the reflection unit. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080267244 | Wagon wheel optical cavity and laser - A laser cavity structure is disclosed which pertains to laser resonator geometries possessing circular symmetry, such as in the case of disk or spherical lasers. The disclosed invention utilizes a very-high finesse Bragg reflector (VHF-BR) thin film reflectors of many layer pairs of very small refractive index difference, the VHF-BR deposited on a surface of revolution, thereby forming an optical cavity. These dielectric reflectors are disposed in such a way as to allow selection of preferred low order modes and suppression of parasitic modes while allowing a high cavity Q factor for preferred modes. The invention disclosed, in its preferred embodiments, is seen as particularly useful in applications requiring high efficiency in the production and coupling of coherent radiation. This is accomplished in a cavity design that is relatively compact and economical. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080310475 | Laser device having thermal lens astigmatism compensation devices and methods of use - The present application is directed to various embodiments of laser devices having at least one thermal lens astigmatism compensation device and methods of use and includes at least one pump source configured to irradiate at least one pump signal, a first gain device is communication with the pump source and configured to irradiate at least one first output signal in response to the pump signal, the first output signal having a first intensity profile Ip | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090034575 | Laser Apparatuses With Large-Number Multi-Reflection Pump Systems - A large number of passes of pump light through an active mirror in a solid state disk laser is realized using a pair of coupled imaging systems, where the optical axes of imaging systems are not coincident. Two imaging systems are optically coupled, so that an image of the first imaging system is an object of the second imaging system, and vice versa. An active mirror is disposed at the object or image plane, or at the focal plane of any one of the coupled imaging systems, where the position of the reflected pump beam during the multi-reflection between the first and second imaging systems is substantially unchanged. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090097524 | OPTICAL PUMPING DEVICE - The invention relates to an optical pumping device ( | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090201966 | Process for a mission of pulsed laser radiation and associated laser source - The present invention especially concerns the field of lasers. Specifically, the object of the invention is a process for the emission of pulsed laser radiation generated by at least one laser crystal which is located in a cavity containing a first and a second mirror and pumped by des pumping means, wherein said process includes a first stage which consists of generating a first pumping laser radiation with an intensity of J | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090245317 | LASER WITH HIGHLY EFFICIENT GAIN MEDIUM - High-power, diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) pulsed lasers are preferred for applications such as micromachining, via drilling of integrated circuits, and ultraviolet (UV) conversion. Nd:YVO | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090323754 | AMPLIFICATION DEVICE COMPRISING A LASER AMPLIFYING MEDIUM OF PARALLELEPIPED SHAPE AND PUMPING MEANS COMPRISING LAMPS - The present invention relates to an amplification device comprising an amplifying medium ( | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100254424 | RELIABLE STARTUP OF HIGH POWER THIN-DISK LASER RESONATORS - Helper resonators useful for the reliable, controlled startup of an associated high power multidisk unstable imaging thin disk laser (TDL) main resonator each includes one of the thin disk gain elements (TDGEs) of the associated main resonator and a pair of helper reflectors disposed on opposite sides thereof. The helper resonators act to prevent the buildup of undesirable amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) during startup of the main resonator, pre-condition the TDGEs so as to enable efficient power transfer from the helper resonators to the main resonator when the main resonator reaches a selected feedback ratio (FBR) and provide a rapidly acting shunt for disk power in the event of a cessation of lasing of the main resonator. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110164648 | Alleviation Of Laser-Induced Damage In Optical Materials By Suppression Of Transient Color Centers Formation And Control Of Phonon Population - Laser-induced damage in an optical material can be mitigated by creating conditions at which light absorption is minimized. Specifically, electrons populating defect energy levels of a band gap in an optical material can be promoted to the conduction band—a process commonly referred to as bleaching. Such bleaching can be accomplished using a predetermined wavelength that ensures minimum energy deposition into the material, ideally promoting electron to just inside the conduction band. In some cases phonon (i.e. thermal) excitation can also be used to achieve higher depopulation rates. In one embodiment, a bleaching light beam having a wavelength longer than that of the laser beam can be combined with the laser beam to depopulate the defect energy levels in the band gap. The bleaching light beam can be propagated in the same direction or intersect the laser beam. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110206084 | LASER BASED ON QUANTUM DOT ACTIVATED MEDIA - A laser gain medium and laser system include a host material, a plurality of quantum dots dispersed throughout the host material, and a plurality of laser active ions surrounding each of the quantum dots. The laser active ions are disposed in close proximity to the quantum dots such that energy absorbed by the quantum dots is transferred to the ions, thereby exciting the ions to produce laser output. In an illustrative embodiment, each quantum dot is surrounded by an external shell doped with the laser active ions. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110216801 | PROCESS FOR EMISSION OF PULSED LASER RADIATION AND ASSOCIATED LASER SOURCE - The present invention especially concerns the field of lasers. Specifically, the object of the invention is a process for the emission of pulsed laser radiation generated by at least one laser crystal which is located in a cavity containing a first and a second mirror and pumped by des pumping means, wherein said process includes a first stage which consists of generating a first pumping laser radiation with an intensity of J | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110222573 | FIBER LASER HAVING INLINE ISOLATOR FOR PREVENTING DAMAGE TO PUMP LIGHT SOURCE - Disclosed is a fiber laser to which an isolation technique for preventing damage to a pump light source is applied. The fiber laser, which includes a fiber laser cavity that includes a gain medium, and a pump light source that supplies pump light to the fiber laser cavity, comprises an isolator that is formed in an inline shape between the pump light source and the fiber laser cavity in order to prevent damage to the pump light source which is caused by the ray reflected from the output terminal of the fiber laser. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110228806 | FIBER LASER - In a fiber laser, a stable laser oscillation is easily realized. A fiber laser includes an optical amplification unit which has a first end and a second end, receives pump light, and emits spontaneous emission light from the first end, and receives the spontaneous emission light at the second end, and emits stimulated emission light from the first end, and a light passing unit (PM fibers, single mode fiber) which connects the first end and the second end with each other, and passes the spontaneous emission light and the stimulated emission light, where the light passing unit includes the PM fibers (polarization plane maintaining units) which present a small change in the polarization plane of passing light and a single mode fiber (polarization plane changing unit) which presents a large change in the polarization plane of passing light. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110249698 | POLARIZATION MAINTAINING MULTI-PASS IMAGING SYSTEM FOR THIN-DISK AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS - Multi-pass optical imaging apparatus includes a concave mirror in combination with two retro-reflecting mirror pairs and at least one reflective surface. The mirror, the retro-reflecting minor pairs and the reflecting surface are arranged such that a light-ray input into the apparatus parallel to and spaced apart from the optical axis of the concave mirror and incident on the concave mirror is caused to be incident on the thin-disk gain-medium at least four times, with each of the four incidences on the gain-medium being from a different direction. If the input ray is plane-polarized, the arrangement provides that the polarization orientation of the ray on each incidence on the gain-medium is in the same orientation. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110310921 | Wavelength Beam Combining Laser with Multiple Outputs - A system and method for producing a multi-output laser by reconfiguring and apportioning a plurality of electromagnetic beams produced by various wavelength beam combining techniques. The reconfiguring of beams includes individual rotation and selective repositioning of one or more beams with respect to beam's original input position. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120014403 | Laser Apparatuses With Large-Number Multi-Reflection Pump Systems - A large number of passes of pump light through an active mirror in a solid state disk laser is realized using a pair of coupled imaging systems, where the optical axes of imaging systems are not coincident. Two imaging systems are optically coupled, so that an image of the first imaging system is an object of the second imaging system, and vice versa. An active mirror is disposed at the object or image plane, or at the focal plane of any one of the coupled imaging systems, where the position of the reflected pump beam during the multi-reflection between the first and second imaging systems is substantially unchanged. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120027043 | HIGH POWER MULTI-CHIP PUMP MODULES WITH PROTECTION FILTER FOR 1060NM, AND PUMP MODULES INCLUDING THE SAME - A multi-chip pump unit comprising a light source and a filter for directing light from the light source towards an optical fiber, wherein the filter exhibits one of either (i) relatively low transmissivity and high reflectivity at a wavelength of the light source, and relatively high transmissivity and low reflectivity at a wavelength greater than the wavelength of the light source; or (ii) relatively high transmissivity and low reflectivity at a wavelength of the light source, and relatively low transmissivity and high reflectivity at a wavelength greater than the wavelength of the light source. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120044966 | LIGHT SOURCE WITH A DIODE LASER AND A LARGE NUMBER OF OPTICAL FIBERS - A light source, e.g., for optical excitation of a laser device, includes a diode laser having a large number of emitters and a light-guiding device, the light-guiding device including a large number of optical fibers. Each fiber has a first end and a lateral surface, the first ends being arranged relative to the emitters in such a manner that light generated by the emitters is coupled into the first ends of the optical fibers, the optical fibers being arranged in abutting relationship along their lateral surfaces at least in the region of their first ends. The optical fibers are connected in the region of their first ends to a fiber support. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120195343 | EYE-SAFE Q-SWITCHED SHORT PULSE FIBER LASER - A laser includes a pump source that provides pump energy at a first wavelength and a laser cavity. The laser cavity includes a laser gain medium that receives the pump energy from the pump source and creates gain at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a mode stripping portion coupled to the laser gain medium. The mode stripping portion causes the laser cavity to have a low Fresnel number so as to allow only the lowest-order fiber mode to resonate in the laser cavity. Higher-order fiber modes are discriminated against so as to generate a laser output having a substantially diffraction limited beam in a single transverse mode at the second wavelength. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120250719 | TRANSITION-METAL-DOPED THIN-DISK LASER - A laser includes a Ti:sapphire gain-medium in the form of a thin-disk. The thin-disk gain-medium is optically pumped by pump-radiation pulses having a wavelength in the green region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The pump-radiation pulses have a duration less than twice the excited-state lifetime of the gain-medium. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130003774 | CO2 laser - Efficient laser diode excited Thulium (Tm) doped solid state systems, directly matched to a combination band pump transition of Carbon Dioxide (CO | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003775 | CO2 laser - Efficient laser diode excited Thulium (Tm) doped solid state systems, directly matched to a combination band pump transition of Carbon Dioxide (CO | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130064264 | LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT - The invention relates to a light source, comprising an optical resonator ( | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130070802 | LASER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE LASER APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method of controlling a laser apparatus, which has a laser light irradiation unit, an excitation unit including a flash lamp, a laser light shielding unit, and a control unit configured to control light shielding by the light shielding unit and release of the light shielding and control setting conditions of the flash lamp. The control unit performs a process of blocking the laser light by the light shielding unit when irradiation of the laser light is stopped, then performs a process of controlling the setting condition so that consumption of the flash lamp is reduced, performs, when the irradiation is restarted, a process of controlling the setting conditions so that the laser light is stably irradiated, and then performs a process of releasing the light shielding. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130121363 | Method of Forming a Single Common Laser Resonator Cavity and an Optically Segmented Composite Gain Medium - A compact solid state laser that generates multiple wavelengths and multiple beams that are parallel, i.e., bore-sighted relative to each other, is disclosed. Each of the multiple laser beams can be at a different wavelength, pulse energy, pulse length, repetition rate and average power. Each of the laser beams can be turned on or off independently. The laser is comprised of an optically segmented gain section, common laser resonator with common surface segmented cavity mirrors, optically segmented pump laser, and different intra-cavity elements in each laser segment. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130188663 | Low Noise Optically Pumped Laser Structures Utilizing Dispersion Elements - A refractive optics-based dispersion control structure for a low-noise solid state laser standing-wave resonator has at least one dispersive element, a gain medium, and a frequency doubling element disposed in the resonant beam path. The dispersive element provides geometric-based laser bandwidth control that minimizes the laser output power noise. The dispersive element in certain embodiments may be a prism. The dispersive element in certain other embodiments may be integrally formed with the gain medium. Numerous different architectures using these elements are disclosed. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130215924 | NON-HERMETIC, MULTI-EMITTER LASER PUMP PACKAGES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME - According to one embodiment described herein, a method for assembling a multi-emitter laser pump package, includes providing a base substrate comprising a laser riser block. A chip-on-hybrid laser assembly is bonded to the laser riser block with a solder preform. A scalar module is bonded to the base substrate with an adhesive such that an output of the chip-on-hybrid laser assembly is optically coupled into an input of the scalar module. A sidewall ring is adhesively bonded to the base substrate with a non-hermetic adhesive, the sidewall ring comprising a fiber interconnect fitting and at least one electrical connector. A first end of a fiber interconnect is optically coupled to an output of the scalar module and a second end of the fiber interconnect is positioned in the fiber interconnect fitting of the sidewall ring. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130230071 | LASER WITH NON-LINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR - In a laser ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20140016662 | PUMP LIGHT ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC LASER - A pump light assembly ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140126602 | CONTINUOUS-WAVE ORGANIC DYE LASERS AND METHODS - An organic dye laser produces a continuous-wave (cw) output without any moving parts (e.g., without using flowing dye streams or spinning discs of solid-state dye media to prevent photobleaching) and with a pump beam that is stationary with respect to the organic dye medium. The laser's resonant cavity, organic dye medium, and pump beam are configured to excite a lasing transition over a time scale longer than the associated decay lifetimes in the organic dye medium without photobleaching the organic dye medium. Because the organic dye medium does not photobleach when operating in this manner, it may be pumped continuously so as to emit a cw output beam. In some examples, operation in this manner lowers the lasing threshold (e.g., to only a few Watts per square centimeter), thereby facilitating electrical pumping for cw operation. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140198818 | Alleviation Of Laser-Induced Damage In Optical Materials By Suppression Of Transient Color Centers Formation And Control Of Phonon Population - Laser-induced damage in an optical material can be mitigated by creating conditions at which light absorption is minimized. Specifically, electrons populating defect energy levels of a band gap in an optical material can be promoted to the conduction band—a process commonly referred to as bleaching. Such bleaching can be accomplished using a predetermined wavelength that ensures minimum energy deposition into the material, ideally promoting electron to just inside the conduction band. In some cases phonon (i.e. thermal) excitation can also be used to achieve higher depopulation rates. In one embodiment, a bleaching light beam having a wavelength longer than that of the laser beam can be combined with the laser beam to depopulate the defect energy levels in the band gap. The bleaching light beam can be propagated in the same direction or intersect the laser beam. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140328365 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL LASER DEVICE - A multifunctional laser device configured to be applicable as such in each of: multiple photon processes, nano structuring processes, optical coherence tomography, Terahertz (THZ) spectroscopy, THz imaging; or a combination of such processes; and comprising a mode-locked linear (X or Z-folded) fs laser resonator having a repetition rate of at least 300 MHz and 600 MHz at most and, thus, a corresponding short resonator length, said fs laser resonator further being a dispersive mirrors cavity having an average negative GDD (Group Delay Dispersion) in the spectral range of the laser operation, and being arranged to generate laser pulses with a pulse width of less than 30 fs, and comprising a pump laser operating at an optical output pump power of less than 2 W. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20150016483 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PUMPING OF AN OPTICAL RESONATOR - A method of pumping an optical resonator includes directing light generated by a pumping light at the optical resonator, exciting a propagating surface state of the optical resonator at an interface of the optical resonator, and changing a propagating frequency of the light proximate the interface, where the changed frequency corresponds to a propagation frequency of the surface state. The optical resonator includes a photonic crystal and a material, where the interface is formed between the photonic crystal and the material. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150139263 | Pump radiation arrangement and method for pumping a laser-active medium - The disclosure relates to a pump radiation arrangement comprising: a pump radiation source for producing pump radiation, a means for stabilizing the wavelength of the pump radiation source and a laser-active medium through which the pump radiation passes in a bidirectional manner. The pump radiation arrangement also has a retro-reflector for reflecting pump radiation which is not absorbed by the laser-active medium back to the pump radiation source and a wavelength-selective element for preventing a wavelength destabilization of the pump radiation source by filtering out undesirable spectral portions of pump radiation which is not absorbed by the laser-active medium. The invention also relates to an associated method for pumping a laser-active medium. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150349486 | NARROW LINE-WIDTH LASER CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL PUMPED BRILLOUIN RANDOM FIBER LASER - A method and apparatus for launching optical pump signals into a disordered gain medium at two points thereby producing a narrow line-width random fiber laser within the disordered gain medium. The optical pump signals are propagated in a direction through the disordered gain medium towards one another. The apparatus may comprise an optical gain fiber having a first end configured to receive a first fiber pump signal and a second end configured to receive a second fiber pump signal such that the first fiber pump signal and the second fiber pump signal propagate within the optical gain fiber in a direction towards one another. An optical loss device is coupled to the optical gain fiber, wherein the optical loss device isolates a narrow line-width random fiber laser signal from a signal generated within the optical gain fiber. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160072249 | DUAL WAVELENGTH PUMPED LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A dual wavelength pumping system and method have been developed to improve the efficiency of laser systems operating in the raid infrared region has been developed, in a conventional system the ions are excited from a ground state to an upper lasing state using a light pump. They then undergo a laser transition to leave the ion in a long lived post lasing excited state from which it eventually decays back to the ground state. In contrast they present system uses a first light pump to pump ions from the ground state to the post lasing state, and a second light pump to pump ions from the post lasing state to the upper lasing state. This system thus exploits the long lifetime of the post lasing state to enable it to become a virtual ground state for the second laser allowing continued cycling of ions between the upper lasing state and the post lasing state. A system using an Erbium, doped fibre generated a 3.5 μm laser output with an average power of over 250 mW and an initial slope, efficiency of 25.4% (previous system have only generates less than 10 mW of power with efficiencies of 3%). | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160134077 | LASER DEVICE - Disclosed is a lamp block comprising a lamp which is a glass tube having an internal final end and an external final end, wherein said internal final end ends with an electrode that fits directly into a connector placed on the machine into which said lamp is mounted and said external final end ends with an electrode to which a cable is connected, at least one portion of said cable being inserted in a key which is a hollow cylinder. Also disclosed is a laser apparatus suitable to house said lamp block and a method for extracting and housing said lamp block in said laser apparatus. In a preferred embodiment, said apparatus further comprise a system for electronic recognition. | 05-12-2016 |
