Q-SWITCHED CO2-LASER MATERIAL MACHINING SYSTEM COMPRISING ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATORS

    公开(公告)号:US20170310070A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-26

    申请号:US15512607

    申请日:2015-07-22

    Abstract: A Q-switched CO2 laser material processing system with acousto-optic modulators (AOM) is employed, on the one hand, inside the resonator for Q-switching the CO2 laser and, on the other hand, externally for efficient suppression of the radiation feedback between a laser and workpiece. The frequency shift of the radiation diffracted at the AOM is taken into account which exactly corresponds to the excitation frequency of the acoustic wave in the AOM crystal under the aspect of the amplification of the radiation in the active medium. Since this frequency shift significantly reduces the amplification of the radiation, it has to be avoided in the Q-switching process, which is achieved, by means of a tandem of two AOMs with identical excitation frequencies but with the acoustic waves propagating in opposite directions in the crystal. The frequency shift advantageously suppresses radiation feedback between the laser and workpiece.

    TUNABLE MODE LOCKED LASER
    84.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170237222A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-17

    申请号:US15332302

    申请日:2016-10-24

    Inventor: Alain Villeneuve

    Abstract: A laser for emitting simultaneously a first and second laser lights having respectively first and second wavelength differing from each other. The laser comprises: an optical resonator defining a first optical path and a second optical path, the first laser light travelling along the first optical path and the second laser light travelling along the second optical path; a modulated gain element inserted in the optical resonator for amplifying the first and second laser lights as the first and second laser lights propagate in the optical resonator respectively along the first and second optical paths, the modulated gain element having a variable gain modulated with a modulation period, round trip times of the first and second laser lights along respectively the first and second optical paths being respective integer multiples of the modulation period; and an output port for releasing the first and second laser lights from the optical resonator.

    Apparatus and method for generating burst-mode laser
    90.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and method for generating burst-mode laser 有权
    用于产生突发模式激光的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09496677B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-15

    申请号:US14894986

    申请日:2013-12-27

    Inventor: Woo Jin Shin

    Abstract: An apparatus for generating burst-mode laser includes: a trigger signal generator for generating a burst trigger signal; a first light source for generating a first optical signal in a form of pulse; a second light source for generating a second optical signal in the form of pulse; an optical switch for selecting between the first optical signal and the second optical signal according to the burst trigger signal to output the selected one; an optical amplifier for amplifying the optical signal output from the optical switch; and a wavelength tuner for tuning a wavelength of the optical signal amplified by the optical amplifier. An oscillation line-width and/or a polarization state of the first optical signal are different from an oscillation line-width and/or a polarization state of the second optical signal.

    Abstract translation: 用于产生突发模式激光器的装置包括:用于产生脉冲串触发信号的触发信号发生器; 用于产生脉冲形式的第一光信号的第一光源; 用于产生脉冲形式的第二光信号的第二光源; 光开关,用于根据突发触发信号在第一光信号和第二光信号之间进行选择,以输出所选择的信号; 光放大器,用于放大从光开关输出的光信号; 以及用于调谐由光放大器放大的光信号的波长的波长调谐器。 第一光信号的振荡线宽度和/或偏振状态与第二光信号的振荡线宽度和/或偏振状态不同。

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