Abstract:
A laser includes a traveling-wave ring-resonator in which one resonator mirror is a mirror of an interferometer arranged such that, when the interferometer is operated in an anti-resonant condition, the mirror has a greater effective reflectivity for clockwise circulation of light in the resonator than for anticlockwise circulation of light in the resonator. There is a difference between the clockwise and anticlockwise effective-reflectivity sufficient that lasing in the resonator is possible only in the clockwise direction.
Abstract:
A femtosecond laser based laser processing system having a femtosecond laser, frequency conversion optics, beam manipulation optics, target motion control, processing chamber, diagnostic systems and system control modules. The femtosecond laser based laser processing system allows for the utilization of the unique heat control in micromachining, and the system has greater output beam stability, continuously variable repetition rate and unique temporal beam shaping capabilities.
Abstract:
A planar waveguide laser device forms a waveguide by a plate-like laser medium having birefringence and clad attached to at least one of the surfaces of the laser medium perpendicular to its thickness direction, amplifies laser light by a gain produced by excitation light incident on the laser medium, and performs laser oscillation. The laser medium is formed of a material having an optic axis on a cross section perpendicular to the light axis, which is the laser travelling direction. The clad is formed of a material having a refractive index in a range between refractive indexes of two polarized lights that travel along the light axis in the laser medium and have oscillation surfaces that are orthogonal to each other. The planar waveguide laser device readily oscillates linearly polarized laser light.
Abstract:
A single longitudinal-mode laser includes a first mirror and a second mirror that define a laser cavity therein that does not include a linear polarizer. A birefringent gain medium can generate a lasing light at a lasing wavelength along a light propagation direction in response to a pump light at a pumping wavelength. The birefringent gain medium has an optical axis substantially perpendicular to the light propagation direction. A first wave plate positioned between the first mirror and the birefringent gain medium is a quarter wave plate at the lasing wavelength and a whole wave plate at the pumping wavelength. A second wave plate is positioned between the birefringent gain medium and the second mirror. The first wave plat and the second wave plate in part produce a single longitudinal mode in the lasing light.
Abstract:
An ultra-short pulsed laser system comprises an optical combiner, optical amplifier, optical pulse compressor, and optical separator. The optical combiner is configured to combine a primary optical pulse with a secondary optical signal to generate a combined optical signal. The primary optical pulse and the secondary optical signal have a distinguishable characteristic. The optical amplifier is configured to optically amplify the combined optical signal. The optical pulse compressor is configured to compress at least the primary optical pulse contained within the optically amplified combined optical signal and output a compressed combined optical signal. The optical separator is configured to separate the compressed combined optical signal into an output primary optical pulse and an output secondary optical signal according to the distinguishable characteristic.
Abstract:
1,139,177. Lasers. PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. 6 Sept., 1966 [9 Sept., 1965], No. 39810/66. Heading H1C. A gas laser is located in an unvarying first magnetic field which is transverse of the resonator axis and also in a pulsed second magnetic field which is longitudinal of this axis, the first magnetic field polarizing the output in a plane which can occupy either one of two stable positions located symmetrically with respect to the transverse field, while the direction of the second field determines in which of these positions the output is polarized. By applying the second field for a short duration in the opposite sense, the polarization plane is switched from one stable position to the other. A pulse code modulated output, e.g. delta modulation, is produced by appropriate control of the second magnetic field. A modulator is described, Fig. 1, in which a ducted quartz block 1 is sealed by quartz blocks 3, 4 provided with dichroic mirrors 5, 6, the duct 2 being filled with helium containing 5% of neon. A D.C. gas discharge is produced between electrodes 7 and 8 and the first and second magnetic fields are established by coils 11 and 14 respectively.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods for developing and maintaining pulses that are produced from compact resonant cavities using one or more Q-switches and maintaining the output parameters of these pulses created during repetitive pulsed operation. The deterministic control of the evolution of a Q-switched laser pulse is complicated due to dynamic laser cavity feedback effects and unpredictable environmental inputs. Laser pulse shape control in a compact laser cavity (e.g., length/speed of light
Abstract:
Provided is a laser element capable of integrating a plurality of optical elements and inhibiting a standing wave of excitation light or oscillation light. A laser element includes: a laminated semiconductor layer including a first reflection layer and an active layer that performs surface emission at a first wavelength; a laser medium including a second reflection layer on a first surface and a third reflection layer on a second surface; a fourth reflection layer disposed on the rear side of the optical axis with respect to the second surface; a first resonator that causes light of the first wavelength to resonate between the first reflection layer and the third reflection layer; a second resonator that causes light of a second wavelength to resonate between the second reflection layer and the fourth reflection layer; a first polarization conversion element provided between the first reflection layer and the laser medium; a second polarization conversion element provided between the second reflection layer and the laser medium, and at least one of first or second polarization control element provided between the first reflection layer and the fourth reflection layer. The optical axis of the laminated semiconductor layer, an optical axis of the laser medium, and optical axes of the first and second polarization conversion elements and the first or second polarization control element are coaxially arranged.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods, and structures providing for the accurate measurement of guided acoustic-wave Brillouin scattering in optical fiber transmission systems and facilities.
Abstract:
A tunable external cavity laser with dual gain chips, including: a polarization beam splitter having a beam splitting surface arranged at an angle of 45° with respect to a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a first gain chip arranged in the first direction; a second gain chip arranged in the second direction; a feedback cavity arranged in the first direction, wherein the feedback cavity and the first gain chip are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the polarization beam splitter, and the feedback cavity includes at least one independent Fabry-Perot etalon, at least one air gap Fabry-Perot cavity and a mirror that are arranged in the first direction. The polarization beam splitter and the two gain chips cooperate to share the feedback cavity, so that a wavelength and a phase may be adjusted, and a larger tuning range may be obtained.