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公开(公告)号:US12119607B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-15
申请号:US17418597
申请日:2019-12-26
摘要: A wavelength tunable laser includes a filter region having a wavelength selection function on light from a gain region, wherein the filter region is a Sagnac interferometer and includes two ring resonators. The ring resonator has two optical couplers, and first and second curved waveguides connecting the two optical couplers, each of the two optical couplers is configured to receive input of the light from the gain region through an input-output port, to couple light of a resonant peak to a bar port of the input-output port, and to couple light except light at a resonant peak wavelength to a cross port of the input-output port, and the first curved waveguide connects the bar ports of the input-output ports of the two optical couplers, and the second curved waveguide connects the cross ports of ports, of two optical couplers, that the first curved waveguide is connected to.
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公开(公告)号:US20240305058A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18663971
申请日:2024-05-14
发明人: Dongjae SHIN , Hyunil BYUN , Changgyun SHIN
IPC分类号: H01S3/10 , G01S7/481 , H01S3/063 , H01S3/08031 , H01S3/082 , H01S3/083 , H01S3/106 , H01S5/00 , H01S5/02 , H01S5/06 , H01S5/065 , H01S5/10 , H01S5/14
CPC分类号: H01S3/10023 , H01S3/0637 , H01S5/0071 , H01S5/0612 , H01S5/0654 , H01S5/1071 , H01S5/142 , G01S7/4814 , G01S7/4817 , H01S3/08031 , H01S3/082 , H01S3/0826 , H01S3/083 , H01S3/106 , H01S5/021 , H01S5/0218
摘要: Provided is a tunable laser source including a plurality of optical waveguides, at least three optical resonators provided between the plurality of optical waveguides and optically coupled to the plurality of optical waveguides, the at least three optical resonators having different lengths, and at least one optical amplifier provided on at least one of the plurality of optical waveguides, wherein a ratio of a first length of a first optical resonator of the at least three optical resonators to a second length of a second optical resonator of the at least three optical resonators is not an integer.
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公开(公告)号:US20240283210A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18568442
申请日:2022-06-06
申请人: Cymer, LLC
发明人: Paul Christopher Melcher , Yuda Wang , Changqi You
CPC分类号: H01S3/09702 , G03F7/2004 , G03F7/70025 , G03F7/70041 , H01S3/0835 , H01S3/2308 , H01S3/225 , H01S3/2366
摘要: A pulsed power circuit including one or more magnetic switches respectively implemented as one or more inductors having saturable cores wherein, after a discharge pulse, each saturable core is repeatably reset to an initial bias point on its magnetization curve by a reset pulse having variable characteristics determined, for example, by chamber operating conditions so that the saturable core is able to function reliably and consistently.
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公开(公告)号:US20230344190A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US18299459
申请日:2023-04-12
CPC分类号: H01S3/136 , H01S3/094 , H01S3/108 , H01S3/1312 , H01S3/083 , H01S3/08072 , H01S2302/00 , H01S3/0606
摘要: A method for intracavity frequency conversion includes end-pumping a solid-state gain medium in a laser resonator with a pump laser beam to generate an intracavity laser beam circulating in the laser resonator, and frequency-converting a portion of the intracavity laser beam in a nonlinear crystal, located in the laser resonator, to generate a frequency-converted laser beam. The method controls the output power and at least one output beam parameter of the frequency-converted laser beam by adjusting (a) the pump power and (b) a resonator loss imposed on the intracavity laser beam. Taking advantage of both the pump laser beam and the intracavity laser beam contributing to thermal lensing in the gain medium, this control scheme is capable of controlling the output power and the output beam parameter(s) independently of each other.
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公开(公告)号:US20230238764A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-27
申请号:US18099362
申请日:2023-01-20
CPC分类号: H01S3/083 , H01S3/0627 , H01S3/1003
摘要: A monolithic nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) laser with a large piezo-electric tuning range and high frequency slew rate, denoted as a μNPRO, is described. A tuning range of 3.5 GHz with 192 volts applied, corresponding to a tuning coefficient of 18.2 MHz/volt was experimentally demonstrated. This performance was achieved by making the solid-state gain element small, with a small distance between a piezo-electric element bonded to the solid-state gain element and a first lase plane in the solid-state gain element. The entire nonplanar ring lasing path within the solid-state gain element may lie within the half of the solid-state gain element closest to the bonded piezo-electric element. This large frequency modulation span and wide frequency modulation bandwidth, combined with unsurpassed coherence and high power, make this an attractive laser for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LIDAR.
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公开(公告)号:US20230231356A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-20
申请号:US18085455
申请日:2022-12-20
发明人: Sergio PINNA , Yi ZHANG , Richard GROTE
IPC分类号: H01S3/083 , H01S3/08022 , H01S3/082
CPC分类号: H01S3/083 , H01S3/08027 , H01S3/0823
摘要: There is provided a laser, and/or a reflector for a laser cavity comprising: a ring resonator structure; and a Fabry-Perot filter connected in cascade to the ring resonator structure by a coupling waveguide. The coupling waveguide is configured to propagate light having a frequency corresponding to any of the resonant frequencies of the ring resonator structure to the Fabry-Perot filter, and the Fabry-Perot filter is configured to select one or more frequencies and return light having a frequency matching any of the selected frequencies to the ring resonator structure via the coupling waveguide.
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公开(公告)号:US11677207B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-13
申请号:US17716086
申请日:2022-04-08
CPC分类号: H01S3/06791 , H01S3/0677 , H01S3/06704 , H01S3/083
摘要: A fiber optic ring laser, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using a fiber optic ring laser are disclosed. The disclosed fiber optic ring laser includes a semiconductor booster optical amplifier (BOA), as a gain medium; a Fiber Fabry Perot Tunable Filter (FFP-TF), as a wavelength selection element; an optical isolator (ISO) to insure unidirectional operation of the fiber optic ring laser; and a polarization controller (PC) for attaining an optimized polarization state in order to achieve a stable-generated output in terms of output power and wavelength, wherein the BOA, the FFP-TF, the ISO and the PC are coupled to form a ring configuration that implements a continuously tunable booster amplifier-based fiber ring laser.
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公开(公告)号:US11658453B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17103470
申请日:2020-11-24
申请人: Ronald LaComb , Kevin LaComb
发明人: Ronald LaComb , Kevin LaComb
IPC分类号: H01S3/083 , H01S3/06 , H01S3/067 , H01S3/0941 , H01S5/40 , H01S5/10 , H01S5/02255 , H01S5/042 , H01S5/22 , H01S5/12 , H01S5/20 , H01S5/42 , H01S5/185
CPC分类号: H01S3/083 , H01S3/0627 , H01S3/0675 , H01S3/0941 , H01S5/1075 , H01S5/4056 , H01S5/02255 , H01S5/04254 , H01S5/04256 , H01S5/12 , H01S5/185 , H01S5/204 , H01S5/2219 , H01S5/4075 , H01S5/42
摘要: The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional cylindrical cavity-type laser system capable of supporting circumferential radial emission. A cylindrical ring waveguide provides optical confinement in the radial and axial dimensions thereby supporting a plurality of radial modes, one of a plurality of axial modes and a plurality of degenerate azimuthal modes. These modes constitute a set of traveling wave modes which propagate around the cylindrical ring waveguide possessing various degrees of optical confinement as quantified by their respective Q-factors. Index tailoring is used to tailor the radial refractive index profile and geometry of the waveguide to support radial modes possessing Q-factors capable of producing efficient radial emission, while gain tailoring is used to define a gain confining region which offsets modal gain factors of the modal constituency to favor a preferred set of modes supporting efficient radial emission out of the total modal constituency supported by the resonator. Under appropriate pump actuation the selected modes produce circumferential laser radiation with the output surface comprising of the entire outer perimeter of the cylindrical ring waveguide. The design is applicable toward both micro-resonators and resonators much larger than the optical wavelength, enabling high output powers and scalability. The circumferential radial laser emission can be concentrated by positioning the cylindrical ring laser inside a three-dimensional conical mirror thereby forming a laser ring of light propagating in the axial dimension away from the surface of the laser, which can be subsequently collimated for focused using conventional optics.
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公开(公告)号:US20220393425A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-08
申请号:US17818178
申请日:2022-08-08
申请人: Gigaphoton Inc.
发明人: Yuki TAMARU , Taisuke MIURA
摘要: A laser apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a master oscillator configured to emit a laser beam, an amplifier including an optical resonator and configured to amplify the laser beam emitted by the master oscillator in the optical resonator, and a phase shift structure disposed on an optical path between the master oscillator and the amplifier at a position closer to the amplifier than a middle point of the optical path. The phase shift structure includes a plurality of cells having different phase shift amounts for the laser beam. The cells have a disposition interval of 80 μm to 275 μm inclusive.
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公开(公告)号:US11469569B1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-11
申请号:US17107940
申请日:2020-11-30
申请人: Arete Associates
发明人: Micah Boyd
摘要: Described herein are methods for developing and maintaining pulses that are produced from compact resonant cavities using one or more Q-switches and maintaining the output parameters of these pulses created during repetitive pulsed operation. The deterministic control of the evolution of a Q-switched laser pulse is complicated due to dynamic laser cavity feedback effects and unpredictable environmental inputs. Laser pulse shape control in a compact laser cavity (e.g., length/speed of light
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