摘要:
Tunable monolithic cavity-based frequency converter pumped by a single-frequency laser where cavity resonance(s) are achieved by independently changing the temperatures, T C , T R /T L of different sections of the crystal, including the periodically poled section and one or more adjacent, non-poled regions. Having independent control of the phase matching temperature and the cavity resonance for a down-converted beam increases the efficiency.
摘要:
A cascaded harmonic generator, for cascaded optical harmonic generation from an optical beam provided by a laser source, may include a second harmonic generator to generate a second harmonic optical beam based on a residual beam associated with the optical beam. The cascaded harmonic generator may include a third harmonic generator to generate a third harmonic optical beam based on the second harmonic optical beam and the optical beam. The third harmonic generator may be positioned in an optical path upstream from the second harmonic generator. A harmonic generator delay time, associated with the optical path, may be approximately equal to, or may be an approximate integer multiple of, a laser source round-trip time.
摘要:
The disclosure herein generally relates to a system (10) for converting an input light (12) into an output light beam (14) that has a spatial beam quality that is greater than that of the input light (12). The system (10) comprises an optical resonator having disposed therein a Raman crystal (20). The Raman crystal (20) is for receiving the input light (12) and the optical resonator is configured to resonate a Stokes light beam (22) generated from the input light (12) by at least one nonlinear interaction within the Raman crystal (20). The at least one nonlinear interaction comprises at least one Raman interaction. The Stokes light beam (22) has a spatial beam quality that is greater than that of the input light (12). The system (10) comprises a light extractor (18) arranged to generate the output light beam (14) by extracting at least some of the Stokes light beam (22) from the optical resonator.
摘要:
The invention relates to a stable optical resonator in which an obstacle is formed or arranged on the optical axis in the form of a through-opening (6) in one of the mirrors (1-4, 7, 8) or in the form of an incoupling or outcoupling element in order to allow a direct geometric access to the optical axis. The mirrors (1-4, 7, 8) of the resonator are arranged such that multiple transverse eigenmodes of the resonator decompose without an obstacle, and an intensity minimum is achieved by means of the combination of said eigenmodes at the location of the through-opening or the incoupling or outcoupling element in the resonator with an obstacle. Using this design, an optical resonator of high finesse, said resonator having a location with an intensity maximum on the optical axis, can be implemented in a simple manner, for example comprising only two curved mirrors with a design freedom with respect to the resonator length and the focus diameter.
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.
摘要:
Wavelength converter device (100), for generating a converted radiation at frequency Ωg through interaction between at least one signal radiation at frequency Ωg and at least one pump radiation at frequency Ωg, comprising * an input (1) for said at least one signal radiation at frequency Ωg; * a pump light source (3) for generating said at least one pump radiation at frequency Ωg; * an output (2) for taking out said converted radiation at frequency Ωg; * a structure (4) for transmitting said signal radiation, said structure (4) including one optical resonator (10) comprising a non-linear material, having an optical length of at least 40*θ/2, wavelength θ is the wavelength of the pump radiation, and resonating at the pump, signal and converted frequencies Ωp, Ωs and Ωg, characterized in that said structure (4) comprises a further optical resonator (20) coupled in series to said optical resonator (10), said further optical resonator (20) comprising a non-linear material, having an optical length of at least 40*θ/2, wherein θ is the wavelength of the pump radiation, and resonating at the pump, signal and converted Ωp, Ωs and Ωg; wherein by propagating through said structure (4) the pump and signal radiation generate said converted radiation by non-linear interaction within said optical resonators (10, 20).
摘要:
A pulsed solid-state thin-disk laser comprises an optical resonator and a solid-state laser gain medium placed inside the optical resonator. The laser gain medium is in the shape of a thin plate or layer with two end faces, the extension of the end faces being greater than a thickness of said plate or layer measured in a direction perpendicular to one of the end faces. One of the end faces comprises a cooling surface, via which the laser gain medium is cooled. A pumping source is provided for exciting the laser gain medium to emit electromagnetic radiation. The thin-disk laser further comprises means for passive mode locking placed inside the optical resonator. The mode-locking means are preferably a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). The laser offers a high average power, a good beam quality, short pulses and a high efficiency. Problems such as thermal lensing, Q-switching instabilities and damages of the mode-locking means are avoided. Moreover, the output power of the laser is scalable, i.e., may be increased without increasing the above-mentioned problems.
摘要:
Intra-cavity and/or inter-cavity sub-resonators (10, 20, 22, 50, 52, 32, 54) with dielectric coated mirrors (10, 50, 52, 54) have anti-reflection and high-reflection coatings to attain high efficiency third (32) and higher order harmonics generation of laser radiation. Main-resonators and sub-resonators enhance the fundamental and harmonic oscillation, respectively, which result is high conversion efficiency of third harmonics (32) and higer, such improved lasing efficiency may be implemented in higher power lasers for improved power performance to attain over 8 W of UV output power with a high repetition rate. The use of intra-cavity THG techniques provide high efficiency by using existing high intensities of the input fundamental frequencies available in the intra-cavity region of the laser to avoid damage to components of the laser, such as the laser crystal. The THG utilizes a double-pass and/or multi-pass arrangement, which results in about a 60 % increase in output power compared to a single pass configuration. Also, blocking of UV energy generated in a return pass is performed to eliminate damage by the UV to components in the main cavity.