公开(公告)号：US11495934B1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US17319960

申请日：2021-05-13

Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Inventor： Martin Richardson ,  Robert Bernath ,  Nathan Bodnar ,  Haley Kerrigan ,  Danielle Reyes ,  Daniel Thul ,  Jessica Pena

IPC: H01S3/00 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/23

Abstract: A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam including one or more laser pulses, a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the pulse pattern generator includes splits the at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam along two or more delay paths and combines light along the two or more delay paths to a common optical path, and where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings associated with the two or more delay paths. The laser system may further include power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.

公开(公告)号：US11480847B1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US17553273

申请日：2021-12-16

Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Inventor： Martin Richardson ,  Patrick Roumayah ,  Justin Cook ,  Soumya Sarang ,  Robert Bernath

IPC: G02F1/35 ,  G02F1/383 ,  H01S3/067

Abstract: A supercontinuum source may include a seed source providing seed light, where the seed source includes one or more seed lasers to generate the seed light and a seed controller to adjust at least one of a temporal pulse profile or a wavelength of the seed light. The supercontinuum source may further include an optical fiber to receive the seed light, where the seed source pumps the optical fiber to induce the generation of supercontinuum output light, and where a spectrum of the supercontinuum output light is controllable by adjusting at least one of the temporal pulse profile or the wavelength of the seed light with the seed controller.

公开(公告)号：US12088054B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US17981738

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Inventor： Martin Richardson ,  Robert Bernath ,  Nathan Bodnar ,  Haley Kerrigan ,  Danielle Reyes ,  Daniel Thul ,  Jessica Pena

IPC: H01S3/00 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/23

CPC classification number: H01S3/0057 ,  H01S3/10023 ,  H01S3/10084 ,  H01S3/2308

Abstract: A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam. The system may further include a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes one or more pulse bursts, and where each of the one or more pulse bursts includes a series of laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings. The system may further include two or more power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where at least two of the power amplifiers amplify different portions of the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam, and where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes a series of amplified pulse bursts including amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.

公开(公告)号：US11851368B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US16564047

申请日：2019-09-09

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

Inventor： Kenneth Schepler ,  Kathleen Richardson ,  Martin Richardson ,  Chanelle Arias ,  Myungkoo Kang

IPC: C03C14/00 ,  C03C3/32 ,  C09K11/02 ,  C09K11/88 ,  C03C4/00 ,  H01S3/16 ,  H01S3/17

CPC classification number: C03C4/0071 ,  C03C14/002 ,  C03C14/006 ,  C09K11/02 ,  C09K11/883 ,  C03C2204/00 ,  C03C2214/02 ,  C03C2214/16 ,  H01S3/1696 ,  H01S3/1698 ,  H01S3/171

Abstract: An optical nanocomposite containing optically active crystals and suitable to be drawn into fiber form, dissolved into solution and subsequently deposited as a thin film, or used as a bulk optical component. This invention integrates compositional tailoring to enable matching of optical properties (index, dispersion, do/dT), specialized dispersion methods to ensure homogeneous physical dispersion of NCs within the glass matrix during preparation, while minimizing agglomeration and mismatch of coefficient of thermal expansion. By tailoring the base glass composition's viscosity versus temperature profile, the resulting bulk nanocomposite can be further formed to create an optical fiber, while maintaining physical dispersion of NCs, avoiding segregation of the NCs.

公开(公告)号：US20230261428A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US17981738

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Inventor： Martin Richardson ,  Robert Bernath ,  Nathan Bodnar ,  Haley Kerrigan ,  Danielle Reyes ,  Daniel Thul ,  Jessica Pena

IPC: H01S3/00 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/23

CPC classification number: H01S3/0057 ,  H01S3/10023 ,  H01S3/10084 ,  H01S3/2308

Abstract: A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam. The system may further include a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes one or more pulse bursts, and where each of the one or more pulse bursts includes a series of laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings. The system may further include two or more power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where at least two of the power amplifiers amplify different portions of the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam, and where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes a series of amplified pulse bursts including amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.

公开(公告)号：US11217960B1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-04

申请号：US17337207

申请日：2021-06-02

Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

Inventor： Martin Richardson ,  Soumya Sarang ,  Patrick Roumayah ,  Nathan Bodnar

IPC: H01S3/30 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/16 ,  H01S3/102 ,  H01S3/23

Abstract: A diamond Raman laser may include a diamond Raman oscillator (DRO) with a first diamond gain medium, a seed laser providing a seed beam at a seed wavelength, and a cavity configured to resonate at a first-Stokes wavelength, the first-Stokes wavelength corresponding to first-Stokes emission in diamond when pumped with the seed wavelength, and where the DRO outputs a first-Stokes beam at the first-Stokes wavelength. The diamond Raman laser may further include a diamond Raman amplifier (DRA) to amplify the first-Stokes beam and generate an amplified first-Stokes beam, where the DRA includes two or more diamond Raman amplification stages, each including one or more second diamond gain media, and one or more optical filters to filter light with a second-Stokes wavelength generated in at least one of the one or more second gain media.