摘要:
A fiber-based source for high-energy picosecond and nanosecond pulses is described, By mit-nimizing nonlinear energy limitations in fiber amplifiers, pulse energies close to the damage threshold of optical fibers can be generated. The implementation of optimized seed sources in conjunction with amplifier chains comprising at least one nonlinear fiber amplifier allows for the generation of near bandwidth-limited high-energy picosecond pulses. Optimized seed sources for high-energy pulsed fiber amplifiers comprise semiconductor lasers as well as stretched mode locked fiber lasers. The maximization of the pulse energies obtainable from fiber amplifiers further allows for the generation of high-energy ultraviolet and IR pulses at high repetition rates.
摘要:
The invention applies to doubly resonant optical parametric oscillators comprising a non-linear crystal (4) through which pass a pump laser beam (fp), a signal beam (fs), and a complementary beam (fc), and a device (5) that totally or partially reflects said beams emanating from the crystal such that, after reflection, they generate between them a relative phase-shifting value ΔΦar for a given functioning mode independent of the signal frequency or complementary frequency, and is characterized in that the reflecting device (5) is a metallic mirror, or a combination of two scattering mirrors and a multilayer dielectric mirror placed downstream.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a laser source for the infrared wavelength range which comprises a pump laser (1) which emits radiation (PP) which is input radiation to a first optical parametric oscillator (3, 4, 5), whose output radiation (SP) is input radiation to a second step in the form of a second optical parametric oscillator (7, 8, 9) or an optical parametric generator. At least one of the reflective devices of the first optical parametric oscillator consist of a Bragg grating (5) in a bulk material.
摘要:
When a wavelength of a first laser beam (23) with which a first recording medium (17) including a first recording layer is recorded and reproduced is indicated as lambda 1 (nm), a wavelength of a second laser beam (24) with which a second recording medium (18) including a second recording layer is recorded and reproduced as lambda 2 (nm), the relationship between the wavelength lambda 1 and the wavelength lambda 2 is set to be expressed by 10
摘要:
When a wavelength of a first laser beam with which a first recording medium including a first recording layer is recorded and reproduced is indicated as λ1 (nm), a wavelength of a second laser beam with which a second recording medium including a second recording layer is recorded and reproduced as λ2 (nm), the relationship between the wavelength λ1 and the wavelength λ2 is set to be expressed by 10 ≦ |λ1 - λ2| ≦ 120. The first recording layer has a light absorptance ratio of at least 1.0 with respect to the wavelength λ1. The light transmittance of the first recording medium with respect to the wavelength λ2 is set to be at least 30 in both the cases where the recording layer is in a crystal state and in an amorphous state. In order to record and reproduce the optical multilayer disk with the above-mentioned characteristics, a multiwavelength light source with the following configuration is used. Wavelengths of fundamental waves with different wavelengths from injection parts (64-1,64-2) formed at one end of a plurality of optical waveguides (62-1,62-2), which satisfy phase matching conditions different from one another and are formed in the vicinity of the surface of a substrate (61), are converted simultaneously, and the first and second laser beams are emitted from emission parts (66) formed at substantially the same position at the other end of the optical waveguides. This enables an optimum optical system for high density recording and reproduction to be obtained.
摘要:
A novel two-dimensional optical signal processing circuit which becomes possible only by the introduction of a concave, flat or convex reflecting structure; and a method of producing the same. Disposed on an optical wave-guiding circuit board (50) formed with an output wave-guiding path (13) and an input wave-guiding path (14) are the optical axes of the input coupling end (I) and output coupling end (U) of a coupling circuit (15) such that the optical axes pass through the same point (Q) on a reflection structure (16), the reflection structure (16) being fabricated by using a laser ablation device (30).
摘要:
A fiber-based source for high-energy picosecond and nanosecond pulses is described, By mit-nimizing nonlinear energy limitations in fiber amplifiers, pulse energies close to the damage threshold of optical fibers can be generated. The implementation of optimized seed sources in conjunction with amplifier chains comprising at least one nonlinear fiber amplifier allows for the generation of near bandwidth-limited high-energy picosecond pulses. Optimized seed sources for high-energy pulsed fiber amplifiers comprise semiconductor lasers as well as stretched mode locked fiber lasers. The maximization of the pulse energies obtainable from fiber amplifiers further allows for the generation of high-energy ultraviolet and IR pulses at high repetition rates.
摘要:
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus that increases the conversion efficiency of optical parametric oscillators and also reduces overall system size and susceptibility to vibration. The first embodiment of the present invention incorporates a PPLN OPO architecture (20) which includes mirrored coatings (32, 36) on the entry surface area (22) and exit surface area (24) of a monolithic nonlinear optical medium (26). The coatings (32, 36) act as mirrors, however, the mirrors are actually affixed to the PPLN element (28, 30). In the first embodiment of the present invention, the PPLN element (26) is a dual grated element. The second embodiment of the present invention uses a single grated PPLN element.
摘要:
A reconfigurable optical device for wavelength-division multiplexing networks, comprising two waveguides (A, B) parallel to each other, with two-dimensional confinement, coupled by a bi-directional coupler (C), suitable to selectively drop one and only one of the channels composing the Wavelength-Division multiplexing signal (WDM); the device is reconfigurable as, by appropriately varying the wavelength of the combined pumping beam inside a first waveguide (A), any channel forming the WDM signal can be dropped.