摘要:
A solid-state laser apparatus including a cavity having an output mirror (103) and a reflective mirror (104), a laser Er:YAG medium (101) and an excitation lamp¨(102) disposed inside the cavity, a wavelength selector (106) allowing selection of a wavelength for laser light pulses to be emitted from among a plurality of wavelengths, and a laser emission timing controller - e.g. a Q-switch - (105) controlling emission timing of the excitation lamp, emission energy of the excitation lamp that is determined depending on at which wavelength, of the plurality of wavelengths, the pulses are to be emitted, and emission of the pulses. The controller continuously emits a pulse train formed of a plurality of pulses including pulses of at least two wavelengths.
摘要:
A laser system includes a first laser diode (110) configured to generate first light in a first direction along an optical path; a laser resonator (130) having a gain medium (131), anisotropic saturable absorber (134), and a wavelength selective outcoupler (140) positioned in the optical path upon which the first light impinges a first side thereof for pulsed pumping of the gain medium (131), a second laser diode (170) configured to generate second light in a second direction along the optical path toward a second side of the resonator, passing through the wavelength selective outcoupler (140) unimpeded and being absorbed by the saturable absorber element (134), wherein the second light has a polarization corresponding to the orientation of the saturable absorber (134); the wavelength selective outcoupler (140) being configured to only allow third light of a predetermined wavelength to have feedback in the laser resonator, achieve gain in the resonator, and be emitted from the laser resonator. Via the second light the polarization of the laser light is controlled and timing jitter is reduced.
摘要:
The invention relates to an optical resonator, laser apparatus and a method of generating a laser beam inside an optical resonator. The optical resonator (100) includes an optical cavity (102) and an optical element (104.1, 104.2) at either end thereof, operable to sustain a light beam (108) therein, characterized in that each optical element (104.1, 104.2) is a phase-only optical element operable to alter a mode of the beam (108) as it propagates along the length of the optical resonator (100), such that in use the beam (108) at one end of the optical resonator (100) has a Gaussian profile while the beam (108) at the other end of the optical resonator (100) has a non-Gaussian profile.
摘要:
There is provided a solid-state laser device (10) including: a resonator; a solid-state laser medium (18) disposed in the resonator; an excitation section that irradiates an excitation beam into the solid-state laser medium (18); a mode selector (26) that controls transverse modes of oscillating light in the resonator; and a movement section (28) that moves the mode selector (26) along the resonator optical axis direction (Z). The laser may be mode-locked with a SESAM (12) and the laser medium may be Yb: KYW. The transverse mode selector may be a knife edge (26) which is translated with the help of a holder (28) resulting in a single transverse mode emission of the laser.
摘要:
A tunable narrow linewidth laser is provided, wherein an adjustable etalon structure (20) is employed to simultaneously tune the wavelength of the laser transmission and the length of the laser cavity. The etalon structure (20) is an effective, relatively thick shear plate comprised of transparent matched wedge-shaped substrates (24a, 24b) and a pair of parallel, partially transmissive mirrors (22a, 22b) with a space therebetween. Rotation of the etalon structure (20) relative to the laser input changes the angle of incidence to the first substrate (24a) and the etalon angle, thereby changing the wavelength of the laser light and also changing the length of the external laser cavity. Thus, reliable frequency tuning is achieved, without mode hopping. The invention is defined in terms of the more general concept that mode hopping during frequency tuning can be eliminated by changing the wavelength and the length of the laser cavity simultaneously by selectively altering the angle of incidence of the laser input on a wavelength discriminating structure, such as an etalon structure, positioned within the optical path of a laser system.
摘要:
The invention relates to a laser source with an external cavity generating a useful laser beam (Fu), that comprises at least one laser diode DL (10) mounted in an extended optical cavity (30, 82) defined between two reflecting surfaces (92, 48) forming an optical path for a laser beam Fd generated by the laser diode DL, a mode selection filter (44, 86) in the optical path of the cavity for selecting a resonance mode from a range of resonance modes of the laser beam in the cavity. The extended cavity (2) includes in the optical path thereof an optical device (94) including a polariser (100) that is 100 % permissive to a rectilinear polarisation of the beam Fd generated by the laser diode, the reference polarisation angle ϑ0 being of 0 degrees, a polarisation rotator (102) of the beam at the output of the polariser (Fc1 ) by a predetermined rotation angle ϑ-1, a polarisation separator (04) of the beam (Frt) at the output of the polarisation rotator, the polarisation separator being inclined in the cavity so that its transmission axis (tt') is oriented at an angle (-ϑ-1) having an opposite sign to and the same value as the polarisation angle of the beam (Frt) at the output of the rotator (102), wherein the optical device prevents any feedback of a reflection beam (Freturn) of the useful beam (Fu) towards said laser diode DL. The invention can be used in a laser for cooling atoms, in interferometry experiments, inertial sensors and atomic clocks.
摘要:
An optical coherence tomography device includes a wavelength scanning laser light source (10) provided with two Fabry-Perot resonators (13A, 13B) provided in a light path for laser oscillation. The values of FSR (free spectral range) of the Fabry-Perot resonators are set so as to be proximate to each other. The resonator length of at least one of the two Fabry-Perot resonators is periodically varied within a preset range to cause the two Fabry-Perot resonators (13A, 13B) to operate as a wavelength length varying filter of a narrow pass band capable of varying the selection wavelength by the vernier effect to output laser light that has wavelength temporally scanned. The optical coherence tomography device also includes an interference optical system (20) that causes the laser light output from the wavelength scanning laser light source (10) to be branched into light for reference and light for observation to be illuminated on an object for observation (60) and that generates interference light of reflected light of the light for observation illuminated on the object for observation (60) and the light for reference. The optical coherence tomography device further includes a signal processing means (50) that receives the interference light obtained from the interference optical system (20) for transforming the received interference light into an electrical signal to calculate the optical tomographic image information of the object for observation (60).