摘要:
A frequency-doubled laser, including: a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, a gain medium, a telescope module, a polarizing element, and a nonlinear crystal; the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror are spaced apart to form a resonator of the frequency-doubled laser; the polarizing element, the gain medium, the telescope module, and the nonlinear crystal are located in the resonator, and the telescope module is located between the gain medium and the nonlinear crystal. The present disclosure further provides a method of generating harmonic laser. The frequency-doubled laser and the method of generating harmonic laser make the position of nonlinear crystal more flexible, and the possibility of damage to the nonlinear crystal is reduced.
摘要:
An optical apparatus comprises an optical resonator defining an optical resonator path for an optical resonator beam and an optical beam expander optically coupled to the optical resonator, the optical beam expander defining an optical beam expander path for an optical beam expander beam. The optical resonator path and the optical beam expander path may be configured such that the optical resonator beam and the optical beam expander beam at least partially intersect. Such an optical apparatus may be configured for use as a laser target designator or a laser range finder.
摘要:
A system, apparatus, and method may provide laser beams of two or more wavelengths from diode pumped solid-state laser sources (220, 222, 224). The beam paths of these laser beams with different wavelengths, which are generated by the laser sources (220, 222, 224), may be aligned along a common optical axis 280 by an optical configuration, to treat at least one target area. Frequency-doubled laser beams, output from a plurality of diode pumped solid state laser cavities, may be passed through fold mirrors (M2, M5, M8), and combined on a common optical axis 280, using one or more combiner mirrors (M10, M11, M12), to unify the beam paths. Selected laser beams may be delivered to a target using one or more delivery systems.
摘要:
In accordance with the present invention, a crystal laser material that is suitable for self doubling is presented. A crystal according to the present invention includes a stoichiometric lithium niobate crystal isomorph host material doped with at least one laser ion. In some embodiments, the stoichiometric lithium niobate crystal isomorph host material is lithium niobate. In some embodiments, the stoichiometric lithium niobate crystal isomorph host material is lithium tantalate. In some embodiments, the at least one laser ion includes Ytterbium. In some embodiments, the at least one laser ion includes a rare-earth ion. In some embodiments, the stoichiometric lithium niobate crystal isomorph host material is periodically poled to provide quasi-phase matching. Additionally, further dopant ions, for example Magnesium, can be included.
摘要:
External-cavity optically-pumped semiconductor lasers (OPS-lasers) including an OPS-structure having a mirror-structure surmounted by a surface-emitting, semiconductor multilayer (periodic) gain-structure are disclosed. The gain-structure is pumped by light from diode-lasers. The OPS-lasers can provide fundamental laser output-power of about two Watts (2.0 W) or greater. Intracavity frequency-converted arrangements of the OPS-lasers can provide harmonic laser output-power of about one-hundred milliwatts (100 mW) or greater, even at wavelengths in the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. These high output powers can be provided even in single axial-mode operation. Particular features of the OPS-lasers include a heat sink-assembly for cooling the OPS-structure, a folded resonator concept for providing optimum beam size at optically-nonlinear crystals used for frequency conversion, preferred selection of optically-nonlinear materials for frequency-conversion, and compound resonator designs for amplifying second harmonic-radiation for subsequent conversion to third or fourth harmonic radiation.
摘要:
As a wavelength conversion crystal whose double refraction index is controllable, a crystal represented by a formula (I), M1xM21−xCa4O(BL3)3, where each of M1 and M2 represents one or more types of different rare earth elements and 0
摘要:
A self-frequency-doubler laser element having a three-dimensional optical waveguide includes a first transparent insulating substrate having both a DFB grating and a grating reflector formed on one side of the DFB grating, a Nd.sup.3+ -ion-doped thin glass film laid over the first transparent insulating substrate, a thin nonlinear optical film laid over the thin glass film, a second transparent insulating substrate laid over the thin nonlinear optical film, and a thin reflecting film laid over the second transparent insulating substrate, wherein the following conditions are satisfied: nf-ng=0.01 to 0.05, and nf and ng are greater than ns and nc, where ns, ng, nf, and nc are the refractive indices of the first transparent insulating substrate, the thin glass film, the thin nonlinear optical film, and the second transparent insulating substrate, respectively. The optical waveguide generates a laser fundamental harmonic, converts it to a second higher harmonic having a wavelength one-half of the laser fundamental harmonic, and emits the second higher harmonic.
摘要:
A solid-state laser having a laser resonator which includes an etalon to allow a single longitudinal mode of oscillation to occur in the width of the wavelength which permits the oscillation of the medium of the solid-state laser. The etalon is interposed in the resonator which is constituted of a surface of a resonant mirror and one end surface of a solid-state laser medium, and wherein the interval of the longitudinal modes of the etalon is set to be in the range from approximately one half to one width of the oscillation wavelength of the medium of a solid-state laser. At the same time, the ratio, with respect to the optical length, of the etalon to the resonator is selected to be about a half integer.
摘要:
A method for preparing a material so as to exhibit second harmonic generan for optical radiation that passes through the material. The method includes a first step of providing a bulk glass comprised of substitutionally doped silica and a charge transfer dopant. The bulk glass is prepared for frequency doubling in accordance with a method that includes a step of irradiating the bulk glass with optical radiation having a first wavelength and a second wavelength, the bulk glass being irradiated for a period of time sufficient to obtain a desired amount of conversion efficiency of the first wavelength into the second wavelength. The silica is substitutionally doped with an element selected from the group consisting of Ge and Al, and the charge transfer dopant is selected from the group consisting of Ce.sup.3+, Nd.sup.3+, and Eu.sup.2+. In another embodiment of the invention the silica is substitutionally doped with Ge and the charge transfer dopant is comprised of naturally existing Ge defects. The bulk glass may be provided as a monolithic body, a preform, a coating, a layer, or as a film. Optical devices incorporating a bulk glass SHG converter and self-frequency doubling glass lasers are described.
摘要:
An ultraviolet laser device equips a laser beam output unit that includes first, second and third amplifiers that output first through third infrared laser beams, and first through third optical systems into which the first through third infrared laser beams through which the first through third infrared laser beams are propagated. A wavelength conversion unit includes a fourth optical system into which the combined first through third laser beams are incident through which they are propagated. The first optical system wavelength converts and generates the first infrared laser beam to a predetermined harmonic wave as the first laser beam, the fourth optical system includes a first wavelength conversion element that generates an earlier stage ultraviolet laser beam between the predetermined harmonic wave and the second laser beam, and the second wavelength conversion element generates an ultraviolet laser beam between the earlier stage ultraviolet laser beam and the third laser beam.