Device and method for transporting pulsed laser radiation with a hollow core optical fiber

    公开(公告)号:US12105331B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US17714155

    申请日:2022-04-06

    申请人: TRUMPF Laser GmbH

    IPC分类号: G02B6/42 G02B6/032 H01S3/00

    摘要: A device for transporting pulsed laser radiation includes a pulse duration setting device configured for setting a transport pulse duration of the pulsed laser radiation. the device further includes a hollow core optical fiber having a hollow core surrounded by a material. The hollow core optical fiber is configured to be operated with beam path parameter values that are present at the first fiber end and lie in a target tolerance range. The device further includes a fiber input coupling device configured to couple the pulsed laser radiation into the hollow core optical fiber with the beam path parameter values that lie in the target tolerance range. the transport pulse duration is set so that input coupling of the pulsed laser radiation into the hollow core is provided for all of the beam path parameter values in the target tolerance range.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A REFERENCE SECTION OF AN OCT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240271923A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18644189

    申请日:2024-04-24

    申请人: TRUMPF Laser GmbH

    IPC分类号: G01B9/02091 G01B9/02055

    CPC分类号: G01B9/02091 G01B9/0207

    摘要: A method for adjusting a reference section of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system includes providing the OCT system, generating a measuring beam using the OCT system, conducting the measuring beam to a measurement object, generating a reference beam using the OCT system, conducting the reference beam through the reference section, superimposing the measuring beam reflected from the measurement object and the reference beam, registering interference signals between the measuring beam and the superimposed reference beam using an interferometer of the OCT system, dividing a scanning path of the measuring beam into measurement phases and positioning phases, and adjusting the reference section exclusively in the positioning phases.

    APPARATUS FOR THE SPECTRAL BROADENING OF LASER PULSES AND OPTICAL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230038729A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17965801

    申请日:2022-10-14

    申请人: TRUMPF Laser GmbH

    IPC分类号: G02F1/35 H01S3/00

    摘要: An apparatus for spectral broadening of laser pulses includes a main body, a plurality of mirror elements fastened to the main body, each having a mirror surface formed thereon and configured to reflect the laser pulses the plurality of mirror elements being fastened to a main body, and at least one nonlinear optical medium for the passage of the laser pulses for the generation of a nonlinear phase (ΦNL) by self-phase modulation. The at least one nonlinear optical medium may be a sheet-like and disk-shaped solid-state optical medium and/or a gaseous optical medium.

    METHOD FOR AMPLIFYING AN ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AN AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220385019A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17881711

    申请日:2022-08-05

    申请人: TRUMPF Laser GmbH

    IPC分类号: H01S3/00 H01S3/067

    摘要: A method for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse includes: a) stretching the ultrashort laser pulse in time, b) amplifying the time-stretched laser pulse, c) compressing the amplified time-stretched laser pulse, with at least one gain phase contribution selected from a group consisting of a gain dynamics phase contribution of the laser pulse that emerges as a change in a nonlinear phase on account of gain dynamics in step b), a gain bandwidth phase contribution of the laser pulse that emerges as a change in the nonlinear phase on account of a gain bandwidth in step b), and a combination thereof, being compensated by virtue of d) an additional phase contribution being imparted on the laser pulse prior to step c) and/or e) a spectrum of the laser pulse being changed, in such a way that the at least one gain phase contribution is compensated after step c).