摘要:
A laser device with frequency conversion, the device comprising a complex optical cavity comprising two cavity parts with two different levels of circulating intracavity power wherein there is placed at least one non-linear crystal (30) is placed within the cavity part of higher circulating power and an active medium (21) in the cavity part of lower circulating power, the power enhancement achieved in two steps and the total enhancement being the product of the enhancement factors in each step, providing additional freedom in design allowing both the condition for high enhancement of the interacting laser power inside the intracavity non-linear crystal and the condition for maximum power output from the laser to be satisfied simultaneously and wher in said complex optical cavity the first cavity part provides the initial step of power enhancement and comprises at least a laser cavity back mirror (20), highly reflective about a laser radiation fundamental frequency &omega, and an active (gain) medium.
摘要:
This invention provides a laser device for intra-cavity frequency conversion, in particular, for the second harmonic generation (SHG), the device comprising a laser cavity, formed by the first (10) and the second (100) laser cavity end reflectors wherein the said laser cavity end reflectors are highly reflective for the radiation about the laser fundamental frequency and as such provide for a predetermined level of circulating inside the cavity fundamental frequency power; an active medium (20) provided within the said laser cavity; at least one non-linear crystal (40), in particular, for the second harmonic generation provided within the same laser cavity; tuning means (202) adapted for tuning at least one of laser cavity end reflectors; wherein at least one of the laser cavity end reflectors (100) comprises an interferometric layout providing spectrally selective reflection for the radiation about the laser fundamental frequency with the value of reflectivity nearly to 100% within a spectral range close to the free spectrum range (FSR) of the laser cavity and with a sufficiently lower reflectivity outside the above spectral range such that the laser cavity restricts the spectrum of the laser radiation to a single longitudinal mode.
摘要:
A laser device with frequency conversion, the device comprising a complex optical cavity comprising two cavity parts with two different levels of circulating intracavity power wherein there is placed at least one non-linear crystal (30) is placed within the cavity part of higher circulating power and an active medium (21) in the cavity part of lower circulating power, the power enhancement achieved in two steps and the total enhancement being the product of the enhancement factors in each step, providing additional freedom in design allowing both the condition for high enhancement of the interacting laser power inside the intracavity non-linear crystal and the condition for maximum power output from the laser to be satisfied simultaneously and wher in said complex optical cavity the first cavity part provides the initial step of power enhancement and comprises at least a laser cavity back mirror (20), highly reflective about a laser radiation fundamental frequency &omega, and an active (gain) medium.
摘要:
The invention provides a laser system comprising a nonlinear optical cavity (200) comprising cavity mirrors (210,220) positioned with respect to each other as to form a cavity configuration defining stable cavity eigenmodes at fundamental, incident upon, and combined, generated within the cavity, frequencies, said eigenmodes being spatially overlapped inside the nonlinear crystal (230), which is incorporated within the cavity and phase-matched appropriately for frequency conversion of circulating inside the cavity laser radiation; wherein for tuning the cavity eigenmodes and resonating the cavity simultaneously at more than one frequency, a dispersive plate (240) having temperature dependent spectral dispersion is provided inside the nonlinear optical cavity and temperature controlling means (242,245) is provided to regulate the temperature of the dispersive plate.