LASER AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND LASER AMPLIFICATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240361666A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18681646

    申请日:2022-05-16

    摘要: A laser amplification device includes an amplification unit and a phase adjustment unit; the amplification unit includes a signal light source, an excitation light source, and a nonlinear optical crystal; the nonlinear optical crystal has a plurality of spatially different crystal portions; the signal light source, the excitation light source, and the nonlinear optical crystal are arranged such that signal light and excitation light are simultaneously incident on the plurality of crystal portions and that the elements of at least one of a set of the angles of incidence between the crystal axes of the plurality of crystal portions and the signal light and a set of the angles of incidence between the crystal axes of the plurality of crystal portions and the excitation light are different.

    ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT NON-LINEAR LIGHT CONVERSION

    公开(公告)号:US20230393331A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US17996455

    申请日:2021-04-28

    IPC分类号: G02B6/02 G02F1/35

    摘要: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for efficient, non-linear light conversion. The object of the present invention of specifying an arrangement for efficient, non-linear light conversion, which simultaneously optimally fulfills the local conversion rate, the interaction scale, and the dispersive properties, is achieved in that the arrangement is provided in the form of a component, which comprises an optical waveguide or an optical fiber with or without cavities, wherein said arrangement consists of fiber cladding substrate or waveguide substrate (IV) with an adapted geometry, which defines the light-guiding properties of the fiber mode with designed dispersion properties (VI), and wherein the waveguide or the core carries a grown, atomically-thin layer of transition metal dichalcogenides in the form of crystallites, wherein this layer completely or partially covers the waveguide or the core.

    Frequency Conversion Using Interdigitated Nonlinear Crystal Gratings

    公开(公告)号:US20230161221A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-25

    申请号:US18087236

    申请日:2022-12-22

    申请人: KLA Corporation

    IPC分类号: G02F1/35 G02F1/355

    摘要: A nonlinear crystal grating assembly including two integral nonlinear crystal grating structures having inverted crystal axes and having parallel spaced-apart mesas with predetermined mesa widths arranged such that, when assembled in an interdigitated configuration, the mesas of the two grating structures form an alternating grating pattern that is aligned with a propagation direction of input light, thereby creating a periodic structure for quasi-phase-matching (QPM). The nonlinear crystal grating structures are formed using strontium tetraborate, lithium triborate or another nonlinear crystal material. The nonlinear crystal grating assembly is utilized in a laser assembly in which fundamental wavelengths are doubled and/or summed using intermediate frequency conversion stages, and then a final frequency converting stage utilizes the nonlinear crystal grating assembly to double or sum one or more intermediate light beam frequencies to generate laser output light at high power and photon energy levels. A method and inspection system are also described.

    United states frequency conversion using interdigitated nonlinear crystal gratings

    公开(公告)号:US11815784B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-14

    申请号:US18087236

    申请日:2022-12-22

    申请人: KLA Corporation

    IPC分类号: G02F1/35 G02F1/355

    摘要: A nonlinear crystal grating assembly including two integral nonlinear crystal grating structures having inverted crystal axes and having parallel spaced-apart mesas with predetermined mesa widths arranged such that, when assembled in an interdigitated configuration, the mesas of the two grating structures form an alternating grating pattern that is aligned with a propagation direction of input light, thereby creating a periodic structure for quasi-phase-matching (QPM). The nonlinear crystal grating structures are formed using strontium tetraborate, lithium triborate or another nonlinear crystal material. The nonlinear crystal grating assembly is utilized in a laser assembly in which fundamental wavelengths are doubled and/or summed using intermediate frequency conversion stages, and then a final frequency converting stage utilizes the nonlinear crystal grating assembly to double or sum one or more intermediate light beam frequencies to generate laser output light at high power and photon energy levels. A method and inspection system are also described.