公开(公告)号：US5168391A

公开(公告)日：1992-12-01

申请号：US911194

申请日：1986-09-22

申请人： Richard W. O'Neil ,  James M. Davin

发明人： Richard W. O'Neil ,  James M. Davin

IPC分类号： H01S3/02

CPC分类号： H01S3/022

摘要： A dye laser amplifier in which a continuously replenished supply of dye is excited with a first light beam in order to amplify the intensity of a second different light beam passing therethrough is disclosed herein. This amplifier includes a cell though which a continuous stream of the dye is caused to pass, and means for directing the first beam into the cell while the second beam is directed into and through the same cell. There is also disclosed herein a specific improvement to this amplifier which resides in the use of a pair of particularly configured windows through which the second beam passes along fixed paths as the second beam enters and exits the dye cell. Each of these windows has a relatively thick main section which is substantially larger in dimensions transverse to its beam path than the cross section of the second beam itself, whereby to add structural integrity to the overall window. At the same time, the latter includes a second section which is disposed entirely within the confines of the main section and through which the second beam is intended to pass in its entirety. This second section is made substantially thinner than the main section in order to reduce optical distortion as the second beam passes therethrough.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了一种染料激光放大器，其中连续补充的染料供应被第一光束激发以放大通过其中的第二不同光束的强度。 该放大器包括通过染料连续流通过的单元，以及用于在将第二光束引导进入并通过相同的单元时将第一光束引导到单元中的装置。 这里还公开了对该放大器的具体改进，其驻留在使用一对特别配置的窗口中，当第二光束进入和离开染料单元时，第二光束通过该窗口沿着固定路径通过。 这些窗口中的每一个具有相对较厚的主要部分，其横截于其光束路径的尺寸比第二光束本身的横截面大得多，从而增加了整个窗口的结构完整性。 同时，后者包括完全设置在主要部分的范围内的第二部分，第二部分通过该第二部分全部通过。 为了在第二光束通过其时减少光学畸变，该第二部分被制成比主部分薄得多。

公开(公告)号：US5148442A

公开(公告)日：1992-09-15

申请号：US363310

申请日：1989-06-08

申请人： Richard W. O'Neil ,  William C. Sweatt

发明人： Richard W. O'Neil ,  William C. Sweatt

IPC分类号： H01S3/094 ,  H01S3/213

CPC分类号： H01S3/213 ,  H01S3/094034

摘要： An optical assembly is disclosed herein along with a method of operation for use in a dye lasing arrangement, for example a dye laser oscillator or a dye amplifier, in which a continuous stream of dye is caused to flow through a given zone in a cooperating dye chamber while the zone is being illuminated by light from a pumping beam which is directed into the given zone. This in turn causes the dye therein to lase and thereby produce a new dye beam in the case of a dye laser oscillator or amplify a dye beam in the case of a dye amplifier. The optical assembly so disclosed is designed to alter the pump beam such that the beam enters the dye chamber with a different cross-sectional configuration, preferably one having a more uniform intensity profile, than its initially produced cross-sectional configuration. To this end, the assembly includes a network of optical components which first act on the beam while the latter retains its initially produced cross-sectional configuration for separating it into a plurality of predetermined segments and then recombines the separated components in a predetermined way which causes the recombined beam to have the different cross-sectional configuration.

摘要翻译： 本文公开了一种光学组件以及用于染料激光装置中的操作方法，例如染料激光振荡器或染料放大器，其中连续的染料流流过协作染料中的给定区域 该区域被来自被引导到给定区域中的泵送光束的光照亮。 这又导致染料在其中染色，从而在染料激光振荡器的情况下产生新的染料束，或者在染料放大器的情况下放大染料束。 如此公开的光学组件被设计成改变泵浦光束，使得光束以不同于其最初产生的横截面构造的不同横截面构造（优选地具有更均匀的强度分布）进入染料室。 为此，组件包括首先作用在梁上的光学部件的网络，而后者保持其初始产生的横截面构造，用于将其分离成多个预定的段，然后以预定的方式重新组合分离的部件，这导致 重组梁具有不同的横截面构造。