摘要:
Apparatus and method for producing coherent blue-green-light radiation having a wavelength of essentially 490-500 nm. A diode laser, such as a strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs diode laser, provides a 980-1,000 nm beam, and a nonlinear crystal of KTP produces coherent radiation by noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) of said beam. The beam preferably has a wavelength of essentially 994 nm for generating radiation having a wavelength of essentially 497 nm. The crystal is disposed within an optical resonator and the frequency of the laser is locked to that of the resonator. Alternatively, two diode lasers are oriented to provide orthogonally polarized beams each with a wavelength of 980-1,000 nm but within essentially 1 nm of each other, and the KTP crystal is oriented with its a- and c-axis parallel to the orthogonally polarized beams. The KTP crystal may have an associated optical waveguide along which the beam is propagated to enhance SHG efficiency.
摘要:
A laser diode with a low reflectivity output facet provides infrared light to a nonlinear crystal resonator such that a portion of the infrared light is converted to blue light. A mirror is located on the opposite side of the nonlinear crystal resonator from the laser. The mirror allows the blue light to pass, but reflects the infrared light exiting the resonator back through the resonator and into the laser diode. The laser diode is thereby locked at the resonance frequency of the nonlinear crystal resonator.
摘要:
A first section of a waveguide channel is made of a nonlinear crystal material. A second section of the waveguide has a plurality of diverging channels. Each of the diverging channels is of a width which supports one of the modes of second harmonic generated light from the first section. First order mode second harmonic light is obtained at the end of one of the diverging channels.
摘要:
Pump laser light is focused into a solid state laser material. A resonator is positioned around the laser material. The resonator is comprised of reflectors which have high reflectivity at both the pump light frequency and the solid state laser light frequency. The resonator is impedance matched to the pump laser. The pump light resonates inside the solid state laser material until practically all of it is absorbed.
摘要:
An acoustic wave is propagated colinearly with the optical signals in an optical fiber to cause coupling of an optical signal in one propagation mode of the optical fiber to the other propagation mode in the optical fiber. The acoustic wave is selected to have an acoustic wave length which is shorter in the direction of optical propagation than the optical beat length between the two propagation modes of the fiber. In order to cause phase-matching between the two optical propagation modes, a periodic structure is used to cause the acoustic wave to contact the optical fiber at periodic locations so that the coupling between the two propagation modes is periodically enabled and disabled. The periodic contact of the acoustic wave with the optical fiber has the effect of adding a spatial propagation constant. The periodicity of the periodic structure is selected so that the spatial propagation constant of the periodic structure is equal to the mismatch in the propagation constants of the two optical propagation modes and the acoustic wave. The present invention thereby provides a means of obtaining greater shifts in the optical frequency while using a colinearly propagating acoustic wave.
摘要:
A fiber optic amplitude modulator couples light between two orthogonal polarization codes of a birefringent fiber. Dynamic coupling is caused by applying synchronized acoustic surface waves to the birefringent fiber in a direction normal to the fiber axis. A static biasing force is applied across the fiber to statically couple apparoximately 50% of the light input to one polarization mode into the other polarization mode. The additional force caused by the acoustic waves causes the fraction of coupled power to vary about the coupling caused by the static force.
摘要:
A laser system uses a nonlinear crystal ring resonator to produce Type II nonlinear second harmonic generated light. The reflective surfaces of the resonator are oriented to form two closed beam paths for the two fundamental frequency light beams having different orthogonal polarization. The two beam paths overlap along one segment which is parallel to an axis of the nonlinear crystal. Second harmonic generated light is produced along this segment of the beam paths.
摘要:
An acousto-optic frequency shifter having a long interaction region is used as an optical analyzer. A variable frequency signal generator is used to drive an acoustic transducer to launch an acoustic wave in contact with an optical fiber. The acoustic frequency is varied over a known range to generate acoustic waves having known wavelengths. An optical signal having an unknown optical wavelength is introduced into one end of the optical fiber in a first polarization mode. The effect of the acoustic wave on the optical signal is to cause coupling of the optical signal from the first polarization mode to a second orthogonal polarization mode. The amount of the coupling is dependent upon the phase-matching between the acoustic wavelength and the optical beat length. The coupling between the polarization modes is maximum when the acoustic wavelength is equal to the optical beat length. The intensity of the optical signal coupled to the second polarization mode can be measured to determine the optical wavelength corresponding to the acoustic wavelength when the maximum intensity occurs.
摘要:
An avalanche-type detector circuit includes an avalanche-type photon detector device, a coupling capacitor, a bias network, a first transmission line and a second transmission line. The coupling capacitor has a first terminal that is coupled to a first terminal of the avalanche-type photon detector device. A first terminal of the bias network is coupled to the first terminal of the avalanche-type photon detector device, while a second terminal of the bias network is coupled to a bias voltage so that the avalanche-type photon detector device is reverse biased. A first end of the first transmission line is coupled to a second terminal of the coupling capacitor, and second end of the first transmission line is terminated by an open-circuit termination. A first end of the second transmission line is coupled to a second terminal of the avalanche-type photon detector device. The second end of the second transmission line is terminated by a short-circuit termination. A bias pulse voltage Vpulse is coupled to the second terminal of the coupling capacitor such that the bias pulse voltage reverse biases the avalanche-type photon detector device to be greater than a reverse breakdown voltage Vbr of the avalanche-type photon detector device during a duration of the bias pulse voltage Vpulse. A round-trip propagation delay along the first transmission line is substantially equal to a round-trip propagation delay along the second transmission line.
摘要:
A laser system uses a nonlinear ring resonator to produce Type-II nonlinear second harmonic generated light. The reflective surfaces of the resonator are all symmetrical with respect to the crystal axes. This allows orthogonally polarized light to be resonated along the same beampath in the resonator without experiencing bireflection.