Abstract:
[0090} Systems and methods for automatically performing a high accuracy gas inject in a laser chamber of a two chamber gas discharge laser such as an excimer laser are disclosed. A mathematical model, relates the amount of halogen gas in the laser chamber after an inject to the amount of halogen gas present prior to the inject, the amount of halogen gas injected., and the consumption rate of halogen gas in the chamber, A fixed amount of halogen gas is added to the chamber in an initial number of injects to allow transients to settle out, after which the amount of halogen gas to be injected is that calculated to result in a desired amount of halogen gas after the inject according to the model. Measurements are taken after injects to update the actual amount of halogen gas present and the consumption rate of the halogen gas.
Abstract:
Efficient laser diode excited Thulium (Tm) doped solid state systems, directly matched to a combination band pump transition of Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 ), have matured to the point that utilization of such in combination with CO 2 admits effectively a laser diode pumped CO 2 laser. The laser diode excited Tm solid state pump permits Continuous Wave or pulsed energy application. Appropriate optical pumping admits catalyzer free near indefinite gas lifetime courtesy of the absence of significant discharge driven dissociation and contamination. As a direct consequence of the preceding arbitrary multi isotopologue CO 2 , symmetric and asymmetric, gas mixes may be utilized without significant degradation or departure from initial mix specifications. This would admit, at raised pressure, a system continuously tunable from ~9μm to ~1 1.5μm, or sub picosecond amplification. This methodology offers advantages in regards scalability, pulse energy and power over alternative non linear conversion techniques in access to this spectral region.
Abstract:
Système d'émission de signal optique comprenant une puce optique passive (2) munie en surface supérieure d'un premier guide d'ondes (3), et une diode laser à ruban large (1) disposée en bordure de la puce optique passive (2), la puce optique passive (2) étant munie, en surface supérieure, d'une structure réfléchissante (5) à la longueur d'onde de la diode laser à ruban large (1) et d'une portion en couche mince (8) active ou non-linéaire alimentée par ladite diode laser (1) et recouvrant une partie (7) du premier guide d'ondes (3), le premier guide d'ondes (3) étant relié par son extrémité d'entrée à la diode laser (1), traversant la structure réfléchissante (5), et comprenant une transition (4) entre une entrée large du premier guide d'ondes disposée en sortie de la diode laser (1) et une portion étroite du premier guide d'ondes (3) traversant la structure réfléchissante (5), la puce optique passive (2) étant munie en surface supérieure d'un deuxième guide d'ondes (10), d'un premier coupleur (13) formé par deux premières portions (14,15) du premier guide d'ondes (3) non recouvertes par la portion en couche mince (8) et situées de part et d'autre de la portion en couche mince (8) le long du chemin optique, et d'un deuxième coupleur (16) formé par deux deuxièmes portions (17, 18), respectivement des premier et deuxième guides d'ondes (3,10), non recouvertes par la portion en couche mince (8).
Abstract:
A system comprising: a) a light source, wherein said source comprises a quasi-cw laser diode (31); b) a lithium niobate modulator (32) arranged to receive output of said light source and outputting pulses which are less than or equal to approximately 10 ns at a repetition rate in a range of from 1 kHz to less than 10 MHz, and said modulator (32) is disposed at an output of said cw laser diode (31); c) an amplifier (33) arranged to amplify pulses output by said modulator (32); and d) a fiber (34) with positive, i.e. normal, group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and self phase modulation receiving an output of said amplifier (33). The quasi cw laser diode (31) is gated so that it does not emit for significantly longer times than the pulse duration. The output of the positive GVD fiber may be compressed to produce fs pulses with variable repetition rate.
Abstract:
Provided is a laser oscillation apparatus capable of stabilizing resonance even when finesse of an optical resonator is increased and generating stronger laser light than that of a traditional apparatus by accumulating laser light in the optical resonator. The laser oscillation apparatus includes a laser light source which generates laser light for excitation, a fiber amplifier which generates laser light with a desired wavelength when the laser light generated at the laser light source for excitation is supplied, an optical resonator, an optical isolator which is interposed between the optical resonator and the fiber amplifier and which guides the laser light from the fiber amplifier to one side of the optical resonator while blocking laser light in the opposite direction, a circulation optical path which accelerates resonance as introducing laser light emitted from the other side of the optical resonator and returning the laser light to the optical resonator via the fiber amplifier and the optical isolator, and a modulator which performs amplitude modulation on the laser light in the circulation optical path.
Abstract:
An optical pulse source 30 comprising a DPSS pump laser 31, a photonic crystal fibre (PCF) 35 and acousto-optic modulator (AOM) gating means 33. The pump pulses are coupled through lenses 32 to the AOM 33, synchronised to the pump laser 31 and operable to gate the pump pulses to a reduced repetition rate Rr = Rf/N, where Rf is the pump laser fundamental frequency. The pulses from the AOM 33 are injected via optics 34 into the PCF 35. Propagation through the PCF 35 causes the pulses to broaden spectrally to produce supercontinuum pulses. An optical pulse source comprising the optical pulse source 30 and an acousto-optical tunable filter (AOTF) operable to convert supercontinuum pulses into wavelength variable output pulses is also provided. A method of scaling the energy of the optical supercontinuum pulses is also provided.
Abstract:
An optical nose for detecting the presence of molecular contaminants in gaseous samples utilizes a tunable seed laser output in conjunction with a pulsed reference laser output to generate a mid-range IR laser output in the 2 to 20 micrometer range for use as a discriminating light source in a photo-acoustic gas analyzer.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a spectral control method in a frequency conversion laser amplifier for producing ultra-short pulses and comprising at least two crystal laser amplifier stages. The invention is characterised in comprising a cooling of the crystal in one of the amplifier stages of the amplifier.
Abstract:
A gas laser device is presented that produces a near diffraction limited round beam exiting the discharge vessel (272). Through the use of a simple focussing system, additional waveguide strip (232) and a spatial filter (242) in conjunction with the new asymmetric hybrid planar waveguide resonator, a round diffraction limited beam can be produced exiting the discharge vessel (272). Furthermore, a second and very similar design is presented that allows for spatial filtering to take place directly outside of the discharge vessel, thereby enabling filtering of the beam to be an added option.