Invention Application
- Patent Title: EXCIMER LASER SYSTEMS WITH A RING CAVITY STRUCTURE
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Application No.: US15746730Application Date: 2015-07-22
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Publication No.: US20180212397A1Publication Date: 2018-07-26
- Inventor: Yu WANG , Yi ZHOU , Xingliang SONG , Pengfei SHA , Yuanyuan FAN , Jiangshan ZHAO , Haiyan SHI , Hui LI , Jinbin DING , Yaoying SHAN , Qian WANG , Qianwei CAI , Zhuojun PENG
- Applicant: Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- International Application: PCT/CN2015/084740 WO 20150722
- Main IPC: H01S3/23
- IPC: H01S3/23 ; H01S3/11 ; H01S3/034 ; H01S3/038 ; H01S3/083 ; H01S3/081

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides an excimer laser system. A master oscillator chamber may generate laser pulses with a narrowed line width and a small energy by means of a line width narrowing module, as a seed light. The seed light is refracted by a master oscillator wavefront engineering box and then incident into a power amplifier chamber through a beam splitting system. The beam splitting system, a first high reflectance mirror, a second high reflectance mirror and a third high reflectance mirror may constitute a quadrilateral annular optical path, The power amplifier chamber may have a first pair of Brewster windows and a second pair of Brewster windows, wherein the first pair of Brewster windows is located in a first optical path of the annular optical path along with a discharging electrode of the power amplifier chamber, and the second pair of Brewster windows is located in a second optical path of annular optical path which is parallel to a first amplification optical path. The present disclosure reduces the length of a ring cavity of an excimer laser system with a ring cavity structure, increasing the amplification times and achieving a deeper gain saturation amplification than a traditional structure, thereby improving the output characteristic of the excimer laser system.
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