摘要:
Embodiments herein describe a path length adjuster for, e.g., adjusting the length of an optical cavity of a laser. In one embodiment, the path length adjuster includes a circulator element for ensuring unidirectional lasing. The path length adjuster may also include one or more focusing elements such as a focusing lens and/or a collimator which directs received laser light at a mirror. The mirror is mounted on an actuator that moves the mirror in a direction parallel with the propagation of the laser light, thereby increasing or reducing the length of the ring cavity.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for operating a laser device, comprising the steps: a) providing a laser pulse (110) in a resonator (1) so that the laser pulse (10) circulates in the resonator (1), the laser pulse (10) having a carrier wave (120); b) determining an offset frequency (f 0 ) of the frequency comb corresponding to the laser pulse (110), the frequency comb having a plurality of laser modes (f m ) at a distance (f rep ) from one another, the frequencies of which can be described by the formula: f m = m * f rep + f 0 , m being a natural number; and c) varying the offset frequency (f 0 ) by varying a geometric phase (Δφ) that is impressed on the carrier wave (120) of the laser pulse (110) per resonator revolution.
摘要翻译:一种用于操作激光装置的方法,包括在谐振器中提供激光脉冲,使得激光脉冲在谐振器中循环,激光脉冲具有载波; 确定与激光脉冲对应的频率梳的偏移频率(f0),所述频率梳具有距离(frep)彼此的多个激光模式(fm),其频率可以由下式描述: fm = m * frep + f0,m是自然数,并且通过改变施加到每个谐振器循环的激光脉冲的载波的几何相位(Δφ)来改变偏移频率(f0)。
摘要:
Characteristics are rendered variable and high-functional by using the side-pressure inductive polarization mode coupling of a PMF to thereby change the position and magnitude of a side pressure. An input light is incident via a polarizer (2), and an outgoing light is output via the PMF (1) and another polarizer (3). Light may enter and go out in an opposite way. The PMF (1) has two polarization axes orthogonal to each other, and the polarization axis of the polarizer (2) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The polarization axis of the polarizer (3) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The PMF (1) induces polarization mode coupling when a polarization light tilted a specified angle with respect to the polarization axis is incident to apply a side pressure to the PMF (1). Characteristics/functions can be changed by changing the position and the magnitude of a side pressure by an application unit (5) so that the length of the PMF (1) of a basic structure can be easily set precisely.
摘要:
Characteristics are rendered variable and high-functional by using the side-pressure inductive polarization mode coupling of a PMF to thereby change the position and magnitude of a side pressure. An input light is incident via a polarizer (2), and an outgoing light is output via the PMF (1) and another polarizer (3). Light may enter and go out in an opposite way. The PMF (1) has two polarization axes orthogonal to each other, and the polarization axis of the polarizer (2) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The polarization axis of the polarizer (3) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The PMF (1) induces polarization mode coupling when a polarization light tilted a specified angle with respect to the polarization axis is incident to apply a side pressure to the PMF (1). Characteristics/functions can be changed by changing the position and the magnitude of a side pressure by an application unit (5) so that the length of the PMF (1) of a basic structure can be easily set precisely.
摘要:
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed of temporarily changing refractive index of an optical fiber containing a longitudinal electrode arranged in the cladding of said fiber along and parallel to the core of the fiber, wherein the change in refractive index is performed by applying a high voltage pulse to said longitudinal electrode, the high voltage pulse including a magnitude of at least 100 volts and a duration sufficiently short to prevent melting of the electrode, such that the electrode thermally expands through ohmic heating without melting and exerts a pressure on the fiber core to induce said temporary change of the refractive index. The method is suitably used for Q-switching a fiber laser.
摘要:
Optical apparatus (110, 500, 600, 800, 1000) for providing light having a selected linear polarization having a polarization ratio, the apparatus (110, 500, 600, 800, 1000) comprising a length of optical fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1001) comprising a rare earth for providing light having a first wavelength responsive to receiving pump light having a second wavelength that is different than said first wavelength, wherein if the length of optical fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1004) were placed in a first position between the length of fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1004) is substantially linearly oriented (20) the fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1004) could propagate at the first wavelength a fundamental mode and a plurality of higher order modes and the apparatus (110, 500, 600, 800, 1000) could provide light having a first polarization ratio for the selected linear polarization and an M2 parameter, and wherein the length of fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1004) is positioned in a second position that increases the bend loss of the fiber relative to the first position such that, responsive to the increased bend loss, the apparatus (110, 500, 600, 800, 1000) can provide light having a reduced M2 parameter as well as a second polarization ratio for the selected polarization that is increased relative to the first polarization ratio, the increase being at least 6 dB greater than the first polarization ratio, and wherein when the length of fiber (120, 504, 604, 804, 1004) is in the second position the apparatus (110, 500, 600, 800, 1000) can provide a slope efficiency that is at least 50 % of the ratio of the second wavelength to the first wavelength.
摘要:
Characteristics are rendered variable and high-functional by using the side-pressure inductive polarization mode coupling of a PMF to thereby change the position and magnitude of a side pressure. An input light is incident via a polarizer (2), and an outgoing light is output via the PMF (1) and another polarizer (3). Light may enter and go out in an opposite way. The PMF (1) has two polarization axes orthogonal to each other, and the polarization axis of the polarizer (2) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The polarization axis of the polarizer (3) is coupled so as to agree with one end of the polarization axis of the PMF (1). The PMF (1) induces polarization mode coupling when a polarization light tilted a specified angle with respect to the polarization axis is incident to apply a side pressure to the PMF (1). Characteristics/functions can be changed by changing the position and the magnitude of a side pressure by an application unit (5) so that the length of the PMF (1) of a basic structure can be easily set precisely.
摘要:
This invention is an improvement of a mode-locked laser stabilizing method and apparatus used with a mode-locked laser apparatus which comprises an optical cavity which consists of an optical modulator which modulates the loss or the phase of light at a fixed frequency, an optical delay line to electrically change the optical path length of the cavity, and an optical amplifier which amplifies a modulated optical pulses. In this method, at least one of the relaxation oscillation frequency components and the harmonic components in the output optical pulses of the mode-locked laser are extracted, and a process of controlling the optical delay line by using the extracted frequency component as an error signal for feedback control and to suppress the error signal below a fixed value.
摘要:
The bandwidth selection mechanism includes a first actuator mounted on a second face of a dispersive optical element, the second face being opposite from a reflective face, the first actuator having a first end coupled to a first end block and a second end coupled to a second end block, the first actuator being operative to apply equal and opposite forces to the first end block and the second end block to bend the body of the dispersive optical element along the longitudinal axis of the body and in a first direction normal to the reflective face of the dispersive optical element. The bandwidth selection mechanism also includes a second actuator being operative to apply equal and opposite forces to bend the body along the longitudinal axis of the body, in a second direction perpendicular to the reflective face of the dispersive optical element.