Source of optical pulses
    1.
    发明授权
    Source of optical pulses 有权
    光脉冲源

    公开(公告)号:US08902496B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-02

    申请号:US13797640

    申请日:2013-03-12

    摘要: The invention can include an apparatus for producing optical pulses, comprising an oscillator for producing optical pulses at a first optical pulse repetition frequency, the optical pulses having a first frequency of light; a pulse picker for receiving optical pulses having the first optical pulse repetition frequency and operable to reduce the optical pulse repetition frequency to produce optical pulses having the first frequency and a reduced optical pulse repetition frequency that is less than the first optical pulse repetition frequency; an optical fiber receiving optical pulses having the reduced optical pulse repetition frequency and first frequency, to nonlinearly produce light that includes a frequency that is twice the first frequency; and an Ytterbium doped fiber amplifier in optical communication with the pulse picker and the optical fiber and located between the pulse picker and the oscillator.

    摘要翻译: 本发明可以包括用于产生光脉冲的装置,包括用于以第一光脉冲重复频率产生光脉冲的振荡器,所述光脉冲具有第一频率的光; 用于接收具有第一光脉冲重复频率的光脉冲的脉冲拾取器,可用于减小光脉冲重复频率以产生具有小于第一光脉冲重复频率的第一频率和降低的光脉冲重复频率的光脉冲; 接收具有降低的光脉冲重复频率和第一频率的光脉冲的光纤,以非线性地产生包括第一频率的两倍的频率的光; 和掺镱光纤放大器,与脉冲拾取器和光纤进行光通信,并位于脉冲拾取器和振荡器之间。

    Supercontinuum Pulse Source
    2.
    发明申请
    Supercontinuum Pulse Source 有权
    超连续谱脉冲源

    公开(公告)号:US20130208739A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-15

    申请号:US13792179

    申请日:2013-03-10

    IPC分类号: H01S3/10

    摘要: An optical pulse source for generating optical supercontinuum pulses comprises an optical pump laser operable to generate optical pump pulses at a pump pulse repetition rate Rf; a nonlinear optical element comprising an optical fiber for generating optical supercontinuum pulses; an optical modulator operable to selectively control the launch of pump pulses into the optical fiber at a reduced, lower repetition rate Rr=Rf/N in order to generate optical supercontinuum pulses at a selectable and lower repetition rate; an optical fiber amplifier located between the optical modulator and the optical pump laser; wherein the optical supercontinuum pulses generated by the optical fiber have a supercontinuum spanning from below 450 nm to greater than 2000 nm; wherein the optical pulse source is provided with a microprocessor configured to determine when supercontinuum pulses are delivered; and wherein the optical pulse source is configured to provide an output trigger signal.

    摘要翻译: 用于产生光学超连续谱脉冲的光学脉冲源包括可用于以泵浦脉冲重复率Rf产生光泵浦脉冲的光泵浦激光器; 非线性光学元件,包括用于产生光学超连续谱脉冲的光纤; 光学调制器,其可操作以选择性地以减少的较低重复率Rr = Rf / N控制泵浦脉冲发射到光纤中,以便以可选择和较低的重复率产生光学超连续谱脉冲; 位于光调制器和光泵激光器之间的光纤放大器; 其中由光纤产生的光超连续谱脉冲具有跨越450nm以上至大于2000nm的超连续谱; 其中所述光脉冲源设置有微处理器,所述微处理器被配置为确定超连续真空脉冲何时被传送; 并且其中所述光脉冲源被配置为提供输出触发信号。

    Method and Apparatus for Providing Supercontinuum Pulses
    3.
    发明申请
    Method and Apparatus for Providing Supercontinuum Pulses 有权
    提供超连续谱脉冲的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20130208738A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-15

    申请号:US13792177

    申请日:2013-03-10

    IPC分类号: H01S3/11

    摘要: Optical pulse source for generating optical supercontinuum pulses, comprising an optical pump laser operable to generate optical pump pulses at a pump pulse repetition rate Rf; a nonlinear optical element comprising a microstructured optical fiber arranged to receive the optical pump pulses and configured to spectrally broaden the pump pulses to generate optical supercontinuum pulses; an optical modulator provided between the optical pump laser and the microstructured optical fiber and operable to selectively control the launch of pump pulses into the microstructured optical fiber at a variable, reduced repetition rate Rr=Rf/N, wherein N is a positive integer, to thereby control the repetition rate of optical supercontinuum pulses generated within the nonlinear element; and wherein the optical pulse source is configured to provide a plurality of different repetition rates and nominally identical spectral broadening for the different repetition rates.

    摘要翻译: 用于产生光学超连续谱脉冲的光学脉冲源,包括可用于以泵浦脉冲重复频率Rf产生光泵浦脉冲的光泵激光器; 非线性光学元件包括微结构化光纤,布置成接收光泵浦脉冲并且被配置为频谱地扩大泵浦脉冲以产生光学超连续谱脉冲; 提供在光泵浦激光器和微结构化光纤之间的光学调制器,其可操作以选择性地控制泵浦脉冲以可变的减小的重复率Rr = Rf / N发射到微结构化光纤中,其中N为正整数, 从而控制在非线性元件内产生的光超连续谱脉冲的重复率; 并且其中所述光脉冲源被配置为为所述不同的重复率提供多个不同的重复率和名义上相同的频谱展宽。

    Methods and apparatus for producing short optical pulses
    4.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for producing short optical pulses 有权
    用于产生短光脉冲的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08593726B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-26

    申请号:US13523723

    申请日:2012-06-14

    IPC分类号: H01S3/23 H01S3/16 H01S3/109

    摘要: Apparatus for producing short optical pulses comprising an oscillator for producing optical pulses at a first optical pulse frequency, the optical pulses having a first wavelength; first and second optical amplifiers; a pulse picker, located between the first and second optical fiber amplifiers, the pulse picker operable to reduce the optical pulse frequency of optical pulses, the amplifier amplifying optical pulses at the first optical pulse frequency and the second amplifier amplifying optical pulses at a reduced optical pulse frequency that is less than said first optical pulse frequency; and a nonlinear optical fiber receiving amplified optical pulses at the reduced optical pulse frequency and having the first wavelength to nonlinearly produce, at the reduced optical pulse frequency, optical pulses that include a wavelength that is different than the first wavelength.

    摘要翻译: 用于产生短光脉冲的装置,包括用于以第一光脉冲频率产生光脉冲的振荡器,所述光脉冲具有第一波长; 第一和第二光放大器; 脉冲拾取器,位于第一和第二光纤放大器之间,脉冲拾取器可操作以减少光脉冲的光脉冲频率,放大器以第一光脉冲频率放大光脉冲,第二放大器以缩小的光学放大光脉冲 脉冲频率小于所述第一光脉冲频率; 以及以减小的光脉冲频率接收放大的光脉冲并且具有第一波长的非线性光纤,以减小的光脉冲频率非线性地产生包括不同于第一波长的波长的光脉冲。

    Source of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
    5.
    发明申请
    Source of Femtosecond Laser Pulses 有权
    飞秒激光脉冲源

    公开(公告)号:US20110007760A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-13

    申请号:US12867475

    申请日:2008-11-28

    IPC分类号: H01S3/30 H01S3/10

    摘要: A source of femtosecond laser pulses (50) comprising a 980 nm picosecond seed pulse source (12), a Ytterbium (Yb) doped fibre amplifier (14) operating in the three-level regime, a passive air-clad fibre (52) and a pulse compressor (16). The seed pulses are spectrally broadened due to self phase modulation (SPM) in the air-clad Yb doped fibre (18) and further broadened due to SPM in the passive core of the passive air-clad fibre (52), to produce sufficient spectral broadening to allow the pulses to be compressed in the dispersion compensator (16) into femtosecond pulses. The Yb doped fibre may have a phosphosilicate host composition in order to mitigate photodarkening.

    摘要翻译: 飞秒激光脉冲源(50)包括980nm皮秒种子脉冲源(12),在三电平状态下工作的镱(Yb)掺杂光纤放大器(14),无源包覆光纤(52)和 脉冲压缩机(16)。 由于空气包覆的Yb掺杂光纤(18)中的自相位调制(SPM),种子脉冲被光谱扩展,并且由于在无源包壳光纤(52)的被动核中的SPM而进一步变宽,以产生足够的光谱 加宽以使脉冲在色散补偿器(16)中被压缩成飞秒脉冲。 Yb掺杂的纤维可以具有磷硅酸盐主体组合物以便减轻光暗化。

    OPTICAL PULSE APPARATUS AND METHOD
    9.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL PULSE APPARATUS AND METHOD 有权
    光学脉冲装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140092925A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-03

    申请号:US13796966

    申请日:2013-03-12

    IPC分类号: H01S3/00

    摘要: The invention can include an apparatus for producing optical pulses, comprising an oscillator for producing optical pulses at a first optical pulse repetition frequency, the optical pulses having a first wavelength and a first time duration; a pulse picker for receiving optical pulses having the first optical pulse repetition frequency, first wavelength and first time duration and operable to reduce the optical pulse repetition frequency to produce optical pulses having the first wavelength, first time duration and a reduced optical pulse repetition frequency that is less than the first optical pulse repetition frequency; an optical fiber receiving optical pulses at the reduced optical pulse repetition frequency and having the first wavelength and first time duration to produce, at the reduced optical pulse frequency, optical pulses that include one or more nonlinearly produced wavelengths different than the first wavelength.

    摘要翻译: 本发明可以包括用于产生光脉冲的装置,包括用于以第一光脉冲重复频率产生光脉冲的振荡器,所述光脉冲具有第一波长和第一持续时间; 脉冲选择器,用于接收具有第一光脉冲重复频率,第一波长和第一持续时间的光脉冲,并且可操作以减少光脉冲重复频率,以产生具有第一波长,第一持续时间和降低的光脉冲重复频率的光脉冲, 小于第一光脉冲重复频率; 以减小的光脉冲重复频率接收光脉冲并具有第一波长和第一持续时间的光纤,以减小的光脉冲频率产生包括一个或多个非线性产生的与第一波长不同的波长的光脉冲。

    OPTICAL PULSE SOURCE
    10.
    发明申请
    OPTICAL PULSE SOURCE 有权
    光学脉冲源

    公开(公告)号:US20130271824A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-17

    申请号:US13797665

    申请日:2013-03-12

    IPC分类号: H01S3/067

    摘要: The invention can include an apparatus for producing optical pulses, comprising an oscillator for producing optical pulses at a first optical pulse repetition frequency, the optical pulses having a first wavelength; a first optical fiber amplifier; a second optical fiber amplifier; a pulse picker located between the first and second optical fiber amplifiers, the pulse picker operable to reduce the optical pulse repetition frequency of optical pulses, wherein the first amplifier amplifies optical pulses at the first optical pulse repetition frequency and the second amplifier amplifies optical pulses at a reduced optical pulse repetition frequency that is less than the first optical pulse repetition frequency; a nonlinear optical fiber receiving amplified optical pulses having the reduced optical pulse repetition frequency and the first wavelength to produce, at the reduced optical pulse frequency, optical pulses that include one or more nonlinearly produced wavelengths different than the first wavelength; and wherein the pulse picker and the first and second optical fiber amplifiers are located between the oscillator and the nonlinear optical fiber.

    摘要翻译: 本发明可以包括用于产生光脉冲的装置,包括用于以第一光脉冲重复频率产生光脉冲的振荡器,所述光脉冲具有第一波长; 第一光纤放大器; 第二光纤放大器; 位于第一和第二光纤放大器之间的脉冲拾取器,脉冲拾取器可操作以减少光脉冲的光脉冲重复频率,其中第一放大器以第一光脉冲重复频率放大光脉冲,第二放大器放大光脉冲 减少的光脉冲重复频率小于第一光脉冲重复频率; 接收具有减小的光脉冲重复频率和第一波长的放大的光脉冲的非线性光纤,以减小的光脉冲频率产生包括一个或多个非线性产生的不同于第一波长的波长的光脉冲; 并且其中所述脉冲拾取器和所述第一和第二光纤放大器位于所述振荡器和所述非线性光纤之间。