公开(公告)号：US20190229490A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16308085

申请日：2017-06-08

申请人： MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ,  NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY LIMITED

发明人： Alex Fuerbach ,  Christoph Wieschendorf ,  Francois Ladouceur ,  Leonardo Silvestri

IPC分类号： H01S3/115 ,  C09K11/77 ,  H01S3/11 ,  H01S3/106 ,  G02F1/141 ,  H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/17 ,  H01S3/16 ,  H01S3/08 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/105

摘要： A voltage-controllable output coupler for a laser, comprising: a liquid crystal cell that provides a change in birefringence in response to an applied voltage; and a polariser oriented with respect to the liquid crystal cell to collectively form a variable reflectance mirror for the laser; wherein output coupling of the laser is controllable by applying voltage to the liquid crystal cell for a switching interval to switch the variable reflectance mirror from high reflectance to low reflectance, and vice versa, thus actively Q-switching or cavity dumping the laser.