Diode-pumped laser
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    发明授权
    Diode-pumped laser 有权
    二极管泵浦激光器

    公开(公告)号:US07260133B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-08-21

    申请号:US11012362

    申请日:2004-12-15

    IPC分类号: H01S3/09 H01S3/091

    摘要: A diode-pumped laser with a direct edge coupling of a pump beam is provided. The laser includes a microchip laser cavity optically pumped by a laser diode emitting an astigmatic pump beam having a substantially elliptical beam cross-section at an output laser diode facet. The microchip laser cavity is disposed at a substantial distance exceeding 0.001″ from the laser diode pump where the astigmatic pump beam has a greatly reduced ellipticity, providing high laser output efficiency without coupling lens element between the laser cavity and the laser diode pump. The pumping arrangement is favourable for single-mode lasing. In some embodiments, the laser cavity includes nonlinear crystal for intra-cavity SHG, a saturable absorber for passive Q-switching and mode locking, and a polarizing prism.

    摘要翻译: 提供了具有泵浦光束的直接边缘耦合的二极管泵浦激光器。 激光器包括由激光二极管光泵浦的微芯片激光器腔体,该激光二极管在输出激光二极管面处发射具有基本椭圆形光束横截面的像散泵浦光束。 微激光器激光腔设置在距离激光二极管泵超过0.001“的实质距离处,其中散光泵浦光束具有大大降低的椭圆率,在激光腔和激光二极管泵之间提供高激光输出效率而不耦合透镜元件。 泵浦装置有利于单模激光。 在一些实施例中,激光腔包括用于腔内SHG的非线性晶体,用于无源Q开关和模式锁定的可饱和吸收器和偏振棱镜。