-
公开(公告)号:USRE50026E1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-25
申请号:US16741186
申请日:2020-01-13
申请人: NKT Photonics A/S
IPC分类号: H01S3/10 , H01S3/067 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/13 , H01S3/00 , H01S3/094 , H01S3/0941 , H01S3/16 , H01S3/23
CPC分类号: H01S3/06754 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/0057 , H01S3/094003 , H01S3/0941 , H01S3/1618 , H01S3/2383 , H01S2301/08
摘要: A method of tuning the time duration of laser output pulses, the method including spectrally dispersing optical pulses and further comprising providing an optical pulse having a time duration and a spectral bandwidth; spectrally dispersing (243, 245) the optical pulse so as to provide a selected change in the time duration of the pulse responsive to the spectral bandwidth of the pulse; outputting (226) an optical output pulse having a first time duration that is responsive to the selected change in time duration; providing another optical pulse; changing the amount of spectral bandwidth of the another optical pulse (272) to be different than that of the optical pulse or changing the amount of spectral dispersion so that spectrally dispersing the another optical pulse provides a change in time duration that is different than the selected change; and outputting (226) another optical output pulse having a second time duration that is responsive to the different change in time duration, the second time duration of the another optical output pulse being different than the first time duration of the optical output pulse.
-
公开(公告)号:US11899339B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US16771595
申请日:2018-12-05
IPC分类号: G02F1/39 , H01S3/067 , H01S3/10 , H01S3/1112 , G02F1/35
CPC分类号: G02F1/395 , G02F1/39 , G02F1/392 , H01S3/06791 , H01S3/10046 , H01S3/1112 , G02F1/3542 , G02F2201/02 , G02F2201/307 , G02F2203/15
摘要: The present invention relates to a system and method for generating wavelength-tunable laser output pulses using parametric processes, wherein a simultaneous and tuned tuning of the pump pulse wavelength and repetition rate ensures a temporal overlap between pump and seed pulses in a parametric gain medium. Based on this parameter coupling, lasers with a wide tunable wavelength range can be obtained, which can be fully fiber-based and which are also suitable for modern nonlinear microscopy or fluorescence microscopy due to a particularly fast response.
-
公开(公告)号:US20230223729A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US18094268
申请日:2023-01-06
申请人: Cornell University
发明人: Henry HAIG , Pavel SIDORENKO , Frank WISE
IPC分类号: H01S3/00 , H01S3/067 , H01S3/10 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/094
CPC分类号: H01S3/0057 , H01S3/06791 , H01S3/06716 , H01S3/10023 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/094003
摘要: A mode-lockable ring oscillator includes a gain element for amplifying an optical pulse into an amplified pulse, a nonlinear optical element for broadening the amplified pulse into a first spectrally-broadened pulse, a first optical filter for filtering the first spectrally-broadened pulse into a first filtered pulse, a passive nonlinear optical element for broadening the first filtered pulse into a second spectrally-broadened pulse, and a second optical filter for filtering the second spectrally-broadened pulse into a second filtered pulse. The first and second optical filters have passbands that partially overlap such that the ring cavity can lase CW. With these spectrally overlapping passbands, the mode-lockable ring oscillator can directly initiate single-pulse mode-locking by modulating pump power that pumps the gain element. After this modulation has stopped, the mode-lockable ring oscillator maintains this single-pulse mode-locking while the passbands remain spectrally overlapped.
-
公开(公告)号:US20230163553A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17919553
申请日:2021-04-21
申请人: UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL , CEGEP GARNEAU
IPC分类号: H01S3/067 , H01S3/094 , H01S3/0941 , H01S3/1112
CPC分类号: H01S3/0675 , H01S3/094003 , H01S3/09415 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/06791
摘要: There is described a fiber laser system generally having a pump laser generating a pump laser beam; and a length of optical fiber optically coupled to the pump laser, the length of optical fiber having: a laser cavity having a cavity path, a first fiber Bragg grating having a first reflectivity profile, a second filter having a second filter profile, and an optical gain region between the first fiber Bragg grating and the second filter along the cavity path, the first reflectivity profile being spectrally detuned from the second filter profile, the first fiber Bragg grating having a first refractive index profile comprising a full width at half maximum bandwidth of at least 0.2 nm and a Gaussian-like apodization, wherein, upon pumping of the optical gain region with the pump laser beam and mode locking of the laser cavity, optical pulses are circulated along the cavity path; and an output.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180309260A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-25
申请号:US15957787
申请日:2018-04-19
发明人: Young Min JHON , Byunghyuck MOON , Young In JOHN , Minah SEO , Jaehun KIM , Yongsang RYU , Taikjin LEE , Seok LEE
CPC分类号: H01S3/1112 , H01S3/08027 , H01S3/08036 , H01S3/08054 , H01S3/092 , H01S3/0941 , H01S3/10061 , H01S3/107 , H01S3/1075 , H01S3/11 , H01S3/1103 , H01S3/1109 , H01S3/115 , H01S3/1611 , H01S3/1623 , H01S3/1625 , H01S3/1636 , H01S3/1643 , H01S2301/08
摘要: Disclosed herein is a single pulse laser apparatus which includes a first mirror and a second mirror disposed at both ends of the single pulse laser apparatus and having reflectivities of a predetermined level or more; a gain medium rotated at a predetermined angle and configured to oscillate a laser beam in a manual mode-locking state; a linear polarizer configured to output a beam having a specific polarized component of the oscillated laser beam; an etalon configured to adjust a pulse width of the oscillated laser beam; and an electro-optic modulator configured to perform Q-switching and single pulse switching.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180278006A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-27
申请号:US15764686
申请日:2016-09-22
IPC分类号: H01S3/00 , G02F1/35 , H01S3/23 , H01S3/094 , G02F1/355 , H01S3/16 , H01S3/06 , H01S3/08 , H01S3/042 , H01S3/04 , H01S3/109 , H01S3/11 , H01S3/081
CPC分类号: H01S3/0092 , G02F1/3511 , G02F1/3536 , G02F1/3551 , G02F2001/3542 , G02F2203/11 , G02F2203/26 , H01S3/0057 , H01S3/0407 , H01S3/042 , H01S3/0619 , H01S3/08059 , H01S3/0813 , H01S3/094042 , H01S3/094076 , H01S3/108 , H01S3/109 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/1608 , H01S3/1623 , H01S3/1628 , H01S3/1685 , H01S3/2308
摘要: The present invention provides systems and methods for producing short laser pulses that are amplified and spectrally broadened in a bulk gain media. The bulk material, having laser gain and nonlinear properties, is concurrently exposed to an optical pump input and a seed input, the pump power being sufficient to amplify and spectrally broaden the seed pulse.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180269653A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-20
申请号:US15592905
申请日:2017-05-11
IPC分类号: H01S5/065 , H01S5/06 , H01S5/026 , H01S5/062 , H01S5/10 , H01S5/04 , H01S5/042 , H01S5/024 , H01S5/0625
CPC分类号: H01S5/0657 , H01S3/0637 , H01S3/08054 , H01S3/082 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/1616 , H01S3/1636 , H01S5/02453 , H01S5/026 , H01S5/041 , H01S5/042 , H01S5/0604 , H01S5/06236 , H01S5/06246 , H01S5/06251 , H01S5/0651 , H01S5/1007
摘要: An artificial saturable absorber uses additive pulse mode-locking to enable pulse operation of an on-chip laser operation. Four different artificial saturable absorbers are disclosed. The first includes an integrated coupler, two arms each containing some implementation of the end-reflector, and a phase bias element in one arm. The second includes an integrated directional coupler, two integrated waveguide arms, and another integrated coupler as an output. The third includes an integrated birefringent element, integrated birefringent-free waveguide, and integrated polarizer. And the fourth includes a multimode waveguide that allows for different modes to propagate in such a way that the difference in the spatial distribution of intensity causes a nonlinear phase difference between the modes. These are just some examples of an on-chip fully integrated artificial saturable absorber with instantaneous recovery time that allow for generation of sub-femtosecond optical pulses at high repetition rates using passive mode-locking.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180233877A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-16
申请号:US15891343
申请日:2018-02-07
发明人: Thomas UDEM , Akira OZAWA
CPC分类号: H01S3/1121 , G01J3/0218 , G01J3/10 , G01J3/4338 , G01J9/04 , G01J2003/282 , G01J2003/4332 , G01N21/39 , G01N2021/391 , G01N2021/399 , G01N2201/0697 , H01S3/0057 , H01S3/0675 , H01S3/06791 , H01S3/1109 , H01S3/1112
摘要: A method of generating laser pulses (1) includes: creating a circulating light field in resonator device (11) having resonator length L and an intra-cavity dispersion and configured for supporting light field resonator modes, and generating a pulse train of laser pulses (1) by a mode-locking mechanism. Laser pulses (1) are generated with a repetition frequency and provide a frequency comb with carrier frequency ωo and comb modes in frequency space. The intra-cavity dispersion is selected such that round trip phases ϕ have a dependency on frequency ω according to φ ( ω ) = π m ( 1 + 4 ω - ω 0 m ω r - 1 ) + L c ω 0 wherein m is an integer providing effective repetition rate (mωr) in combination with mode spacing ωr at optical carrier frequency (ωo), and the mode-locking mechanism provides a coupling of the resonator modes whereby frequency difference (Δn=ωn+1−ωn) between neighboring mode frequencies (ωn, ωn+1) is a linear function of mode frequency number n. Furthermore, a spectroscopy method for investigating a sample, a laser pulse source apparatus and a spectroscopy apparatus are described.
-
公开(公告)号:US10038297B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-31
申请号:US15329459
申请日:2015-07-21
CPC分类号: H01S3/06791 , H01S3/0675 , H01S3/06754 , H01S3/08027 , H01S3/082 , H01S3/10092 , H01S3/106 , H01S3/1112 , H01S5/5018
摘要: This invention relates to the field of laser technology and more particularly to the ultra-short pulse generation methods and generators. One round trip of the ultra-short light pulse formation inside a generator optical loop comprises these steps: amplification of the light pulse, spectral broadening of the amplified light pulse due to the optical Kerr effect inside the optically transparent medium, selection of the predeterminated spectral components of the spectrally broadened light pulses by using the first spectrally-sensitive optical element, then again follows amplification of the selected light pulses, spectral broadening of the amplified light pulse due to the optical Kerr effect inside the optically transparent medium and selection of the predeterminated spectral components of the spectrally broadened light pulses by using the second spectrally-sensitive optical element, where spectral components of the light pulses selected using the first spectrally-sensitive optical element are different than the spectral components of the light pulses selected using the second spectrally-sensitive optical element.
-
10.
公开(公告)号:US20180191125A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-05
申请号:US15738310
申请日:2016-06-30
发明人: Daniil MYASNIKOV , llya BYCHKOV
CPC分类号: H01S3/1109 , H01S3/06791 , H01S3/10061 , H01S3/1112 , H01S3/1305 , H01S3/136 , H01S3/137
摘要: The disclosed method and apparatus for stabilizing a mode-locked regime of a fiber ring oscillator based on a NPR include tapping a portion of light, which has a broad spectral bandwidth, from a fiber ring resonator into at least first and second control channels. The control channels are configured to guide respective first and second fractions of the tapped portion. One of the control channels is provided with a bandpass filter operative to extract a region from the broad spectral bandwidth. The fractions with respective full spectral bandwidth and region thereof are then evaluated in a central processing unit which is operable to generate a control signal if a predetermined criterion is not met. The control signal is received by one or more polarization controller units operative to dynamically modulate a state of polarization of light in the fiber ring resonator until the evaluation meets the predetermined criterion.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-