| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 372075000 | Semiconductor | 29 |
| 20080247438 | Laterally pumped solid-state laser gain-module - A gain-module for a laser resonator has an elongated gain-element located in an diffusely reflective cylindrical enclosure having an elongated entrance slit for admitting pump radiation. Pump radiation is supplied by two diode-laser arrays assemblies each including a fast-axis collimating lens. Propagation axes of the diode-laser array assemblies are at an angle to each other. The propagation axes extend through the entrance slit into the enclosure without being intercepted by the gain-element and with the gain-element being located between the propagation-axes. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080317083 | Diode Pump - This invention relates to a novel diode pump and a method of manufacturing the same. An optical laser pulse beam expander, through which a laser beam is guided forward, is integrated as a part of the diode pump according to the invention. The light bars of the diode pump are preferably made from a material that is harder than silicon and that resists large amounts of power, such as from diamond, sapphire, ruby or titanium sapphire. Using a diode pump according to the invention it is possible to guide a laser beam forward without power-restricting optical transmission fibers or optical high-power connectors. The invention enables the manufacture of very high-power diode pumps and the use thereof as a part of a laser apparatus. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090022201 | Alkali-Vapor Laser with Transverse Pumping - Alkali-vapor laser and related methods of lasing are described herein. In some embodiments, a diode-pumped gas-vapor laser is provided that can be scaled to high power. For example, in one embodiment, a triply-transverse configuration of a diode-pumped-alkali-laser (DPAL) is disclosed in which alkali-buffer gain medium is flowed through an laser chamber (for example, configured as an optical resonator or amplifier) whose optical axis is nominally transverse to the flow direction, and whose pump array radiation is propagated into the alkali-buffer gain medium in a direction nominally transverse to both the direction of gain medium flow and the direction of the optical axis. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090052493 | ACTIVE ELEMENT FOR LASER SOURCE AND LASER SOURCE INCLUDING SUCH AN ACTIVE ELEMENT - According to the invention, the lateral surface ( | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100040105 | HIGH REPETITION-RATE, ALL LASER DIODE-PUMPED EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET/SOFT X-RAY LASER AND PUMP SYSTEM - An extreme ultraviolet/soft x-ray laser driven by a compact solid-state chirped pulse amplification laser system entirely pumped by laser diodes is described. The solid-state pump laser generates compressed pulses of sub-10 ps duration with energy greater than 1 J at a chosen repetition rate in a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG system. Lasing in the 18.9 nm line of Ni-like Mo was observed. The diode-pumped laser has the potential to greatly increase the repetition rate and average power of lasers having a variety of EUV/SXR wavelengths on a significantly smaller footprint. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100272145 | VECSEL-PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER - The present invention relates to a solid-state laser system constituted bya solid-state laser whichis optically pumped by a vertical extended cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL). The solid-state laser comprises a solid-state laser medium ( | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100309946 | OPTICAL MODULE - To constitute an optical module comprising a mount and a board that supports the mount, wherein a solid-state laser device that oscillates fundamental laser light, a pump light source that pumps the solid-state laser device, and a wavelength converting device that converts a wavelength of the fundamental laser light oscillated by the solid-state laser device are mounted on the mount, the mount is divided into three blocks, that is, a first block on which a laser medium is mounted, a second block on which the pump light source is mounted, and a third block on which the wavelength converting device is mounted. A side surface or a bottom surface of only the second block is fixed to the board, the first block is fixed to the other side surface of the second block, and the third block is fixed to a side surface of the first block. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100316085 | HIGH POWER SOLID-STATE OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION PROCESS AND SYSTEM - A high power solid-state non-regenerative optical amplification system ( | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110150026 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER DEVICE FOR ENGINE IGNITION - There is provided a semiconductor laser pumped solid-state laser device for engine ignition that can stably provide optical energy required for ignition across a wide temperature range. In the semiconductor laser pumped solid-state laser device for engine ignition, a plurality of semiconductor lasers | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110164649 | LASER SYSTEM HAVING SWITCHABLE POWER MODES - A pump module comprises a power source, a plurality of laser diodes, a controller and light combining optics. The laser diodes each have an activated state and a deactivated state. The laser diodes receive current from the power source and output light when in the activated state and do not receive current from the power source when in the deactivated state. The controller switches the plurality of laser diodes from a first power mode, in which a first subset of the laser diodes is in the activated state, to a second power mode, in which a second subset of the laser diodes is in the activated state, responsive to a power mode setting. The light combining optics are configured to combine the light from the activated laser diodes and output the combined light as pump energy. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110280271 | F-P CAVITY AND LASER USING SAID F-P CAVITY - The disclosure discloses a fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity, which is a folded confocal cavity integrally formed by a monolithic optical element, the folded confocal cavity having three reflection surfaces, wherein a first reflection surface is a plane and at the same time serves as an input/output coupling surface, a second reflection surface is a plane, and a third surface is a spherical surface, curvature radius of which is equal to half of a round trip geometric length of light in the folded confocal cavity. The invention further discloses a laser based on the F-P cavity. The solution of the disclosure solves the problems in existing folded F-P cavity, such as unsatisfactory stability, sensitive to outside inferences, bulky and complicated construction. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110305256 | WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING BASED LASER PUMPS - A method of direct diode pumping a fiber laser includes disposing a plurality of diode lasers in a wavelength beam combining cavity for generating a wavelength beam combining laser output, and optically coupling the wavelength beam combining laser output to the gain medium of a fiber laser. The wavelength beam combining cavity may comprise a fast axis wavelength beam combining cavity. Also, the plurality of diode lasers may comprise a multidimensional array of diode lasers arranged as diode laser bars disposed in a stack and spatially interleaved or optically aligned to form an optical stack. Each of the diode lasers may produce a distinct wavelength laser beam. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120069864 | DIODE PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER WITH IMPROVED PUMP LIGHT ABSORPTION - For a diode pumped solid-state laser, measures to improve the pump light absorption in anisotropic crystals are proposed. The proposed measures reduce the dependency of the pump light absorption on the diode current and the diode temperature as well as on the detuning of the pump diode from the absorption line. These measures include sending the pump radiation twice through the crystal, placement of the laser crystal in an orientation that does not exhibit the optimum absorption and the use of a retarder. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120114008 | TRANSVERSE PUMPED LASER AMPLIFIER ARCHITECTURE - An optical gain architecture includes a pump source and a pump aperture. The architecture also includes a gain region including a gain element operable to amplify light at a laser wavelength. The gain region is characterized by a first side intersecting an optical path, a second side opposing the first side, a third side adjacent the first and second sides, and a fourth side opposing the third side. The architecture further includes a dichroic section disposed between the pump aperture and the first side of the gain region. The dichroic section is characterized by low reflectance at a pump wavelength and high reflectance at the laser wavelength. The architecture additionally includes a first cladding section proximate to the third side of the gain region and a second cladding section proximate to the fourth side of the gain region. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20130039378 | SOLID STATE THIN DISK LASER - A laser including a semiconductor laser stack group, a beam compositor, a pump beam collimator, a thin-disk laser crystal, a first and a second parabolic reflectors with the same facial contour function, a corrective reflector, an output mirror, and a jet-flow impact cooling system. The thin-disk laser crystal and the output mirror form a laser resonant cavity. The first parabolic reflector, second parabolic reflector, thin-disk laser crystal, and corrective reflector form a multi-pumping focus cavity. The jet-flow impact cooling system is used for cooling the thin-disk laser crystal. The pump light produced by the semiconductor laser stack group is composited by the beam compositor, collimated by the pump light collimator, and enters the multi-pumping focus cavity. Within the multi-pumping focus cavity, the pump light is focused, collimated, and deflected to converge on the thin-disk laser crystal. The laser resonant cavity produces and outputs a laser beam. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130077648 | SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A VECSEL-type surface-emitting semiconductor laser device is manufactured by providing a first component part ( | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130182738 | Wavelength-Convertible Semiconductor Laser Which is Driven By Pulse - The present invention relates w a wavelength-convertible semiconductor laser which is driven by a pulse, and more specifically, to a wavelength-convertible semiconductor laser, wherein: an expanded resonator is formed by including a laser diode chip on the outside of a pump semiconductor laser diode chip; and an oscillating wavelength of a pump laser is driven by a pulse determined from the outside of the semiconductor laser diode chip by inserting a filter, which is capable of selecting a wavelength, on the inside of said expanded resonator. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130223470 | APPARATUS FOR FEMTOSECOND LASER OPTICALLY PUMPED BY LASER DIODE PUMPING MODULE - There is disclosed an apparatus for femtosecond laser optically pumped by a laser diode pumping module that is able to mechanically couple optical mounts for mounting optical mounts to each other by using a bar with a low thermal expansion coefficient and to form a light pumping module distant from a laser platform or a case, to provide a stable mode locking for an ultrashort laser and to enhance a power stability and a beam stability. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130250995 | LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION - An exemplary laser system is disclosed which includes a pump laser diode array and laser gain material, in which the array generates optical radiation having a predetermined total linewidth approximately 20 nm wide constructed from a plurality of individual wavelengths with a linewidth of up to 8 nm, the centre wavelength of radiation being for example within the absorption band of laser gain material used at the centre point of the operating temperature of the array. The system can include a highly reflecting plane mirror with periodic transmitting patches placed between the laser diode array and the laser gain material, the size of the transmitting patches being such that minimal pump radiation is lost. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130287058 | System and Method for Wavelength Beam Combination on a Single Laser Emitter - A system and method for reducing the M | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140029640 | SOLID-STATE LASER DEVICE - In a conventional solid-state laser device, uniformity of an excitation distribution around the axis of a solid-state laser medium is only considered, and symmetry of the excitation distribution in the optical axis direction of the solid-state laser device as a whole is not considered. Therefore, there has been a problem that it is difficult to generate a high-power and high-quality laser beam with high efficiency. In order to solve the problem, in the present invention, excitation modules | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140086271 | MOLECULAR GAS LASER - The closed cycle solid state optically pumped gas hybrid (chemical recovery) system utilizes a laser diode excited solid state, fiber or bulk, laser as a pump for a molecular gas, or gas mix, medium. The existence of efficient high power laser diode excited solid state fiber or bulk lasers, output spectrally matched to suitable principle and excited level 1 | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140133515 | SCALABLE DIODE LASER SOURCE FOR OPTICAL PUMPING - The system and method for modifying the output beam parameters of a plurality of laser diode array sources comprises scalable pump sources for use with diode pumped alkali lasers. The present invention optimizes a diode laser pump source by spectrally-narrowing stacks of diode laser array bars using a single external cavity outfitted with a proprietary step-mirror and cylindrical optical elements. The system and method of the present invention multiplies by one-hundred fold the number of stacks that can be narrowed, vastly increasing the attainable power output by utilizing beam-splitters. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140185643 | PULSED BIAS CURRENT FOR GAIN SWITCHED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS FOR AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION REDUCTION - Gain switched laser diode pulses are used as seed pulses for optical pulse generation. ASE is reduced by applying a prebias to the laser diodes at an amplitude less than that associated with a laser diode threshold. An electrical seed pulse having an amplitude larger than that associated with laser threshold is applied within about 10-100 ns of the prebias pulse. The resulting laser diode pulse can be amplified in a pumped, rare earth doped optical fiber, with reduced ASE. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140185644 | SPATIALLY STABLE HIGH BRIGHTNESS FIBER - Optical fibers that provide stable output beam sizes have core refractive indices that decrease non-monotonically from a core center to a core/cladding interface. A maximum refractive index of the core is situated at a radius of between about ½ and ¾ of the core radius so that a core center has a depressed refractive index. Such fibers are included in diode pumped solid state lasers to deliver pump laser power to a laser medium. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140233598 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER EXCITATION SOLID-STATE LASER - A semiconductor laser excitation solid-state laser comprises: a planar waveguide-type solid-state laser element which is disposed on a solid-state laser substrate; an LD array; and a sub-mount substrate on which joining layers of two different thicknesses are formed on the same plane; wherein the planar waveguide-type solid-state laser element is joined to the sub-mount substrate on the surface on the opposite side of a surface on which the solid-state laser substrate is mounted, via a joining layer of one of the thicknesses out of the joining layers of the two different thicknesses, and the LD array is joined to the sub-mount substrate on the surface on a light-emitting layer side, via another joining layer of the other thickness out of the joining layers of the two different thicknesses. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140355638 | High Power Spatial Filter - An improved high power special filter, system and method. In the system, an optical fiber is disposed inside a ferule channel structure, and the channel structure is aligned with a focusing lens system. The end of the fiber is at a distance D from the channel opening that faces the focusing lens system, and D is determined by the system's numeric aperture factor and the cladding thickness of the optical fiber. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150016484 | LASER DEVICE - An end surface | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150110146 | OPTICALLY PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER DEVICE WITH SELF-ALIGNING PUMP OPTICS - The present invention relates to an optically pumped solid state laser device, comprising a solid state laser medium ( | 04-23-2015 |
