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公开(公告)号:US12085836B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-10
申请号:US18010899
申请日:2020-07-29
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Takushi Kazama , Takeshi Umeki , Takahiro Kashiwazaki , Osamu Tadanaga , Koji Embutsu , Nobutatsu Koshobu , Asuka Inoue , Ryoichi Kasahara
CPC classification number: G02F1/392 , G02F1/3501 , G02F1/39 , G02F1/395 , H01S3/0092 , H01S3/1086 , G02F1/35 , G02F1/3548 , G02F1/3551
Abstract: An optical amplifier of the present disclosure includes a Raman amplification unit and a parametric amplification unit that is configured of a second-order nonlinear element including a PPLN waveguide. In the optical amplifier, second harmonic lights are generated from a fundamental wave light having a wavelength that is slightly detuned to a shorter wavelength side with respect to a phase matching wavelength of the second-order nonlinear element, and is utilized as excitation light for the parametric amplification unit. By utilizing the excitation light based on the fundamental wave light of the wavelength detuned from the phase matching wavelength, a phase matching curve can be obtained in a wide band in a difference frequency generation (DFG) process of the second-order nonlinear element. The reduction in conversion efficiency of the wavelength near the excitation light in the parametric amplification unit is compensated by the Raman amplification unit.
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公开(公告)号:US12003071B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17048921
申请日:2019-04-19
Applicant: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE , CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE , UNIVERSITE PARIS SACLAY
Inventor: Dimitrios Papadopoulos , Xavier Delen , Frederic Druon
CPC classification number: H01S3/0057 , G02F1/3511 , G02F1/3515 , G02F1/3519 , G02F1/392 , H01S3/0071
Abstract: A method for generating ultrashort pulses includes directing a master beam having ultrashort pulses and at least one slave beam through an optical gate material. The intensity of the slave beam upstream of the optical gate material is lower than that of the master beam upstream of the optical gate material. The optical gate material and the pulses of the master beam are chosen to induce a Kerr effect when the master beam passes through the optical gate material, the Kerr effect producing a modulation of the phase of the slave beam in association with pulses of the master beam when the slave beam passes through the optical gate material. The modulation of the phase of the slave beam is transformed into a modulation of the amplitude thereof using a complementary optical device to generate a slave beam downstream of the optical gate material having ultrashort pulses.
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公开(公告)号:US11899338B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17991198
申请日:2022-11-21
Applicant: KLA Corporation
Inventor: Yung-Ho Alex Chuang , Kelly Mauser , Baigang Zhang , Xuefeng Liu , John Fielden , Yinying Xiao-Li , Elena Loginova
CPC classification number: G02F1/3534 , G01N21/4738 , G02F1/3507 , G02F1/3542 , G02F1/3548 , G02F1/3551 , G02F1/37 , G02F1/392 , G01N21/9501 , G01N2201/06113 , G02F2203/11 , H01S3/1625 , H01S3/1636
Abstract: A nonlinear crystal including stacked strontium tetraborate SrB4O7 (SBO) crystal plates that are cooperatively configured to create a periodic structure for quasi-phase-matching (QPM) is used in the final frequency doubling stage of a laser assembly to generate laser output light having a wavelength in the range of about 180 nm to 200 nm. One or more fundamental laser beams are frequency doubled, down-converted and/or summed using one or more frequency conversion stages to generate an intermediate frequency light with a corresponding wavelength in the range of about 360 nm to 400 nm, and then the final frequency converting stage utilizes the nonlinear crystal to double the frequency of the intermediate frequency light to generate the desired laser output light at high power. Methods, inspection systems, lithography systems and cutting systems incorporating the laser assembly are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US20230367177A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-16
申请号:US18196764
申请日:2023-05-12
Applicant: NTT RESEARCH, INC.
Inventor: Jatadhari MISHRA , Marc JANKOWSKI , Alexander Y. HWANG , Hubert S. STOKOWSKI , Timothy P. McKENNA , Amir H. SAFAVI-NAEINI , Martin M. FEJER
CPC classification number: G02F1/3551 , G02F1/395 , G02F1/392 , G02F1/3546 , G02F1/3548 , G02F2202/20 , G02F2202/07
Abstract: In some embodiments, a device for generating mid-infrared radiation is provided. The device may include a thin film quadratic nonlinear waveguide formed on a mid-infrared transparent cladding by a thin film material of a predetermined film thickness, the waveguide having a predetermined etch depth and a predetermined top width. At least one of the predetermined film thickness, the predetermined etch depth, and the predetermined top width may be tuned for the device to generate a coherent idler wave as a mid-infrared radiation from a fixed pump wave and a tunable signal wave.
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公开(公告)号:US20240255830A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-01
申请号:US18411183
申请日:2024-01-12
Inventor: Konstantin Vodopyanov
IPC: G02F1/39
CPC classification number: G02F1/392
Abstract: A system can include a beamsplitter configured to be in optical communication with an optical input source configured to generate one or more input optical signals. The beamsplitter can be configured to split the one or more input optical signals into one or more seed optical signals configured to propagate along a first optical path, and one or more pump optical signals configured to propagate along a second optical path. The system can include a frequency divider in optical communication with the beamsplitter to receive the one or more seed optical signals. The frequency divider can be configured to divide optical frequencies of the one or more seed optical signals in half to provide one or more subharmonic seed optical signals. The system can include a beam combiner in optical communication with the frequency divider to receive the one or more subharmonic seed optical signals, and with the beamsplitter to receive the one or more pump optical signals. The beam combiner can be configured to combine at least one of the one or more pump optical signals and at least one of the one or more subharmonic seed optical signals to provide a combined optical signal. The system can include a nonlinear material in optical communication with the beam combiner to receive the combined optical signal. The nonlinear material can be configured to provide optical parametric amplification of the at least one of the one or more subharmonic seed optical signals of the combined optical signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11899339B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US16771595
申请日:2018-12-05
Applicant: REFINED LASER SYSTEMS GMBH
Inventor: Maximillian Brinkmann , Carsten Fallnich , Tim Hellwig
IPC: G02F1/39 , H01S3/067 , H01S3/10 , H01S3/1112 , G02F1/35
CPC classification number: G02F1/395 , G02F1/39 , G02F1/392 , H01S3/06791 , H01S3/10046 , H01S3/1112 , G02F1/3542 , G02F2201/02 , G02F2201/307 , G02F2203/15
Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for generating wavelength-tunable laser output pulses using parametric processes, wherein a simultaneous and tuned tuning of the pump pulse wavelength and repetition rate ensures a temporal overlap between pump and seed pulses in a parametric gain medium. Based on this parameter coupling, lasers with a wide tunable wavelength range can be obtained, which can be fully fiber-based and which are also suitable for modern nonlinear microscopy or fluorescence microscopy due to a particularly fast response.
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公开(公告)号:US20240036435A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US18038668
申请日:2021-11-26
Applicant: Heriot-Watt University
Inventor: John C. Travers , Federico Belli
CPC classification number: G02F1/397 , G02F1/354 , G02F1/3538 , G02F1/392 , G02F1/395 , G02F1/3528 , G02B6/02328 , H01S3/094015 , H01S3/1083
Abstract: An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system comprises an optical waveguide including a hollow core containing a fluid, wherein the optical waveguide is configured to receive pump light and to convert the pump light into signal light and idler light via a third order non-linear optical effect. The OPO system further comprises an optical feedback arrangement for recycling at least a portion of the signal light and/or for recycling at least a portion of the idler light in an optical cavity that includes the optical waveguide. The OPO system may be used, in particular though not exclusively, in metrology, gas and solid-state spectroscopy, laser-assisted manufacturing, semiconductor technology, biomedicine, healthcare, and scientific laboratory use.
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公开(公告)号:US20230236473A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-27
申请号:US18010899
申请日:2020-07-29
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Takushi Kazama , Takeshi Umeki , Takahiro Kashiwazaki , Osamu Tadanaga , Koji Embutsu , Nobutatsu Koshobu , Asuka Inoue , Ryoichi Kasahara
CPC classification number: G02F1/392 , G02F1/3501 , H01S3/1086
Abstract: An optical amplifier of the present disclosure includes a Raman amplification unit and a parametric amplification unit that is configured of a second-order nonlinear element including a PPLN waveguide. In the optical amplifier, second harmonic lights are generated from a fundamental wave light having a wavelength that is slightly detuned to a shorter wavelength side with respect to a phase matching wavelength of the second-order nonlinear element, and is utilized as excitation light for the parametric amplification unit. By utilizing the excitation light based on the fundamental wave light of the wavelength detuned from the phase matching wavelength, a phase matching curve can be obtained in a wide band in a difference frequency generation (DFG) process of the second-order nonlinear element. The reduction in conversion efficiency of the wavelength near the excitation light in the parametric amplification unit is compensated by the Raman amplification unit.
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公开(公告)号:US20240243541A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-18
申请号:US18337713
申请日:2023-06-20
Inventor: Christian Keyser , Micah Raab
CPC classification number: H01S3/1083 , G02F1/3534 , G02F1/3548 , G02F1/361 , G02F1/392 , G02F1/395 , H01S3/06729 , H01S3/1086 , H01S3/20
Abstract: A fluid filled fiber for a quasi-phase matched generator and a laser incorporating such a fluid filled fiber. The laser has a liquid filled fiber with charge transfer molecules dissolved in a solvent. The liquid of the liquid filled fiber comprises or consists essentially of highly polar liquids and/or charge transfer molecules having relatively high molecular dipole values.
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公开(公告)号:US20240241310A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-18
申请号:US18558584
申请日:2021-06-02
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Nobutatsu Koshobu , Koji Embutsu , Takeshi Umeki , Osamu Tadanaga , Takushi Kazama , Takahiro Kashiwazaki , Asuka Inoue , Kei Watanabe
CPC classification number: G02B6/1223 , G02F1/392
Abstract: A module structure that makes it easy to mount pigtail optical fibers by mounting a wavelength conversion apparatus, to enable adjustment of the path distance of optical signals, or to control the path distance of each individual polarization for polarization diversity control with high precision. The wavelength conversion apparatus is characterized in that when mounting a module having two or more input and output ports of a wavelength conversion apparatus, the module is configured to take out the input and output ports from two corresponding walls of the mounting housing, and also has a mechanism to control the path distance of at least one of the signal light and the excitation light input from each input and output port, and has a mechanism to separate the polarization of at least one of the signal light and the excitation light input from the ports and to control the path distance.
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