摘要:
The invention relates to a laser active optronic system with improved detectivity, especially an eye-safe optronic system. The system comprises a channel for the emission by an emission source of a laser beam illuminating a target and a channel for receiving the wave backscattered by the target. An optical switching device is positioned in the receive channel, said optical switching device receiving said backscattered wave and comprising an optical gain medium and pumping means for pumping said gain medium, said gain medium being absorbent at the wavelength of the laser and becoming substantially transparent when it is pumped, in such a way as to allow the switching device to be actuated in the on mode or off mode respectively. It further includes a control unit for controlling the pumping means, allowing the switching device to be actuated in the on mode in at least one temporal window of predetermined duration, triggered at a predetermined instant after the start of emission of the illuminating laser beam.
摘要:
Disclosed is a non-linear optical device in which the non-linear medium comprises a circular surface on which the light beam to be processed gets reflected. A structure such as this can be used to resolve the difficulties of making mirrors of the cavity containing the non-linear medium.
摘要:
A laser includes a gas enclosure placed in an optical cavity and receiving a pump beam to generate at least one first-order and one second-order Stokes wave. One of the mirrors of the cavity is transparent to wavelengths which are higher than the first-order Stokes wave.
摘要:
A laser active optronic system has an emission channel for the emission by an emission source of a laser beam which illuminates a target, and a receiving channel for receiving the wave backscattered by the target. An optical switching device is positioned in the receiving channel to receive the backscattered wave and has an optical gain medium and pumping means for pumping the gain medium. The gain medium is absorbent at the wavelength of the laser and becomes substantially transparent when it is pumped to allow the switching device to be actuated in the on mode or off mode respectively. A control unit for controlling the pumping means, allows the switching device to be actuated in the on mode in at least one temporal window of predetermined duration, triggered at a predetermined instant after the start of emission of the illuminating laser beam.
摘要:
A laser is capable of working at a wavelength L.sub.2 from an active material capable of generating radiating emissions at at least two wavelengths L.sub.1 and L.sub.2, through the presence of a semiconductor plate in the laser cavity. Notably, the laser can generate wavelengths ranging from 1.4 .mu.m to 2 .mu.m, a range in which the optical damage threshold of the eye is high, from an Nd.sup.3+ doped YAG having numerous radiating emission wavelengths ranging from 0.946 .mu.m to 1.8 .mu.m.
摘要:
A tunable laser source comprising a laser source emitting a pump beam towards a Raman cell. It transmits a beam at a Stokes wavelength to a non-linear crystal. Depending on the angle of this beam with the optical axis of the crystal, the non-linear crystal transmits two output waves at wavelengths that are different from the Stokes wavelength.
摘要:
The field of the invention is that of power lasers pumped by coherent optical sources, such as laser diodes. The aim of the invention is to provide a structure of illumination of a laser rod enabling both efficient removal of the calories released by the coherent optical pumping sources and high homogeneity of the rod pumping operations. The structure is characterized in that the optical sources of at least one set of optical sources are arranged on one and the same delocalized support and in that said structure comprises reflecting means for the transmission, towards the rod, of the illumination beam from said set of delocalized optical sources.
摘要:
Disclosed is a power laser in which several laser diodes emit pump beams towards amplifier media. The beams coming from these amplifier media are combined by an optical system to give a common beam transmitted to an output mirror. The mirror and a reflecting face of each amplifier forms an optical cavity.
摘要:
A quantum well electromagnetic wave detector disclosed having a semiconductor structure including a stacking of layers of material wherein the widths of the forbidden gaps of the materials are used to obtain a profile of potential energy corresponding to the bottom of the conduction band for the electrons in such a way that a first layer has a relatively low energy level with second and third layers having an intermediate energy higher than the energy of the first layer and fourth and fifth layers having high energy greater than either the intermediate or the low energy levels. The energy corresponding to a first permitted level is lower than the potential energy at the bottom of a conduction band of both of the materials used to make the second and third layers and the energy of the second level is between the potential energy at the bottom of a conduction band of both materials of the second and third layers and the potential energy of the bottom of the conduction band of the materials of the fourth and fifth layers. The first permitted level of energy of the quantum well is populated with electrons and an electric field is applied perpendicular to the plane of the structure.
摘要:
A frequency shifter to shift the frequency of a guided wave in the medium infrared range comprises:an optical guide, formed by semiconducting materials, on the surface of which a diffraction grating is created by carriers photo-induced by a periodic illumination.standard optic means projecting, on the surface of the guide, two wave beams having different frequencies in the near infrared or visible range, to produce, by interference, a periodic illumination of the surface of the guide. This illumination induces photocarriers constituting a diffraction grating which is in translational motion at constant speed. This motion shifts the frequency of the diffracted wave by Doppler effect.