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3934210 Tuning apparatus for an optical oscillator  
One or more birefringent plates are placed within the optical cavity of an optical oscillator such as a dye laser. Each of the plates is positioned at an angle, such as Brewster's angle with...
3924201 Laser apparatus employing mechanical stabilization means  
A laser includes a lasing medium and two Porro prism end reflectors with the roofline of each prism being at an angle between about 5° -85° with respect to the plane of polarization and optically...
3902137 Electro-optic diffraction grating tuned laser  
An electro-optic diffraction grating tuned laser comprising a laser medium, utput mirror, retro-reflective grating and an electro-optic diffraction grating beam deflector positioned between the...
3868590 NARROW BANDWIDTH DYE LASER  
A dye laser has a dye cell containing a lasable dye material. A diffraction grating and a partially reflective mirror form an optical cavity having an axis through the dye cell coincident with the...
3868592 IMPROVED TUNING APPARATUS FOR A DYE LASER  
One or more birefringent plates are placed within the optical cavity of a dye laser. Each of the plates is positioned at an angle, such as Brewster's angle with respect to the light reflected...
3863177 METALLIC PENTAPHOSPHATE GLASSES AND USES THEREFOR  
There are disclosed various embodiments of a laser in which the dielectric active medium is a rare earth pentaphosphate glass, for example, neodymium pentaphosphate glass. These glasses are...
3838358 LASER ARRANGEMENTS INCLUDING CATADIOPTRIC ELEMENTS MADE FROM GRADED-INDEX OPTICAL FIBERS  
A catadioptric element (which is equivalent in effect to a spherical mirror) is made by depositing a high-reflectivity coating on one of the flat ends of a cylindrical segment of a graded-index...
3835414 GALLIUM ARSENIDE ARRAY  
A gallium arsenide laser array in which laser modules are mounted on a printed circuit support plate. Each module has a housing creating a cavity and shaped substantially as a pair of cones with...
3835415 HIGH RADIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER  
A diffraction-limited semiconductor laser system capable of a high radiance output which features means for controlling automatically the alignment of a p-n junction of the semiconductor laser with...
3825856 LASER GENERATOR FOR SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODE OPERATION  
A laser generator which oscillates in a single transverse mode comprises an amplifying medium placed within a resonator consisting of two oppositely facing mirrors. Provision is made within the...
3817604 METHOD OF FOCUSING A HIGH-POWERED LASER BEAM  
A method of providing a focal spot position independent of the input optical power of a laser beam. A negative lens is interposed such that focal spot motion caused by a changing refractive index...
3813613 LASER EMPLOYING A METALLIC PENTAPHOSPHATE  
There are disclosed various embodiments of a laser in which the dielectric active medium is a rare earth pentaphosphate, for example, neodymium pentaphosphate. The neodymium pentaphosphate laser...
3805015 LASER APPARATUS SUPPORTED BY AN OPTICAL BENCH  
Workpieces are fed in succession to a laser beam to be machined thereby, the laser beam being produced by a laser resonator oscillating in the fundamental transverse mode and incorporating a laser...
3805187 DAMAGE RESISTANT TUNABLE CW DYELASER  
A damage resistant tunable continuous wave (cw) dye laser comprising a hydro-dynamically contoured interaction region, with a thick input window which is coated to be optically inert to the pumping...
3792370 IMPROVED OPTICAL CAVITY FOR A LASER  
A catoptric lens arrangement which is adapted to use with high power radiant energy, as from a laser, is shown. The entrance mirror of the contemplated lens arrangement has a convex reflective...
3777280 LASER GENERATOR OF TE WAVE GUIDE MODES  
Propagating radiation with rotationally symmetric optical modes of the TE 01 (and TM 01 ) type show promising properties for future applications. For their generation, laser cavities inherently...
3766491 RADIATION AND PRESSURE BROADENING TECHNIQUE FOR SINGLE FREQUENCY GAS LASERS  
Single frequency operation is achieved in a gas laser by mutually adapting the total gas pressure and the radiation density so that twice the radiation-broadened homogeneous linewidth is greater...
3750048 WINDOW FOR HIGH POWER GASEOUS LASERS  
In a gas laser capable of ultra high power, a cylindrical mirror mounted to receive the laser beam, diverge it, thereby lowering the power density. A cylindrical lens, acts as the seal and window,...
3739296 LASER SYSTEMS AND LASER CONTROL SYSTEMS  
A laser resonator includes nodally-mounted, passive, refractive or reflective image-forming means separate from the lasing medium and conjugate reflective surfaces on which conjugate images are...
3735283 BEAM DIAMETER CONTROL FOR P LASER HAVING IMPROVED COHERENCE  
A pulsed laser and preferably one with a solid laserable material is caused to oscillate substantially in a single mode to increase its coherence length. This is accomplished by the provision of...
3735278 DEVICE FOR WAVELENGTH SELECTION IN LASERS WITH BROAD-BAND EMISSION  
In a device for wavelength selection in dye lasers with a broad-band emission, and which comprises in axial alignment a light source, a laser cell, a directional filter including an apertured stop,...
3707687 DYE LASER TUNABLE BY LONGITUDINAL DISPERSION IN THE DYE CELL  
A single mirror serves both as the output mirror for the pumping gas laser and the high reflectance mirror for the dye laser. THe mirror is formed on one surface of a lens having a low dispersion...
3696310 MODE-LOCKING IN SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS  
In order to achieve longitudinal mode-locking in a semiconductor laser, the normal dispersion of a semiconductor medium is compensated for by means of an intracavity dispersive structure, thereby...
3685882 SELF-ALIGNED GAS ASSISTED LENS FOR LASER BEAM APPARATUS  
A self-aligned gas assisted lens for a laser beam apparatus wherein the orifice through the sheet aperture is formed by the laser beam and consequently is in exact alignment with the laser beam and...
3679313 DISPERSIVE ELEMENT FOR OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION  
An interferometer cavity defined by two mirrors of different reflectance is advantageously adjusted to achieve superior compression of optical pulse signals. In particular, a mirror of...
3680000 LASER ARRANGEMENT INCLUDING A CAVITY DEFINED BY CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS  
A laser cavity defined by convex and concave mirrors and including a discrete intracavity lens is characterized by a relatively large TEM oo spot radius, a short physical length and good stability.
3670258 FREQUENCY-DOUBLED NEODYMIUM DOPED GLASS LASER UTILIZING A LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL  
A frequency-doubled neodymium doped glass laser is provided in which a narrow spectral bandwidth, high-radiance neodymium doped glass laser is used to irradiate a lithium niobate crystal which is...
3670260 CONTROLLED OPTICAL BEAM FORMING DEVICE  
A controlled optical beam forming device distributes the light from a collimated source such as a laser within a controlled solid pattern with any desired relative intensity distribution. The...
3655993 OPTICALLY ROTATORY DIELECTRIC-GUIDED PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS  
There is disclosed a parametric oscillator having reduced optical loss and increased interaction pathlength because it employs an optically rotatory liquid in a capillary tube of lower refractive...
3643178 ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION BEAM DIRECTING SYSTEMS  
A dirigible beam of coherent radiation is generated by using a fixed birefringent element (Calcite plate) and a variable birefringent (Kerr cell) as a directional filter in combination with an...
3638139 FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE LASER DEVICES  
Because the index of refraction in a discharge gas column varies as a function of frequency and radius, light rays of different frequencies are diffracted different amounts as they traverse the...
3626322 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING DOMINANCE OR LASER OSCILLATIONS AT ONE WAVELENGTH OVER THOSE AT ANOTHER  
Method and apparatus for eliminating in a laser the dominance of laser oscillations at one wavelength of the laser medium over laser oscillations at another wavelength of said laser medium. The...
3626317 DIGITALIZED SCANLASER  
Generally, the disclosure describes a scanlaser with a fly's eye lens array for discretized or digitalized beam steering via mode selection. In a scanlaser, a localized change in birefringence...
3622739 DEVICE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A LASER BEAM FOR DRILLING WATCH JEWELS  
A laser beam is produced for drilling watch jewels by a resonator and a focusing lens system. The resonator comprises a rod of active material mounted between two planer reflectors and energized by...
3611184 LASER OPTICAL SYSTEM HAVING DIVERGENT COMPONENT  
A laser optical system has, in place of the normally plane-parallel partly transmitting output reflector element, an element having a concave or convex forward face, and a concave rear face, such...
3602724 OPTICAL NONLINEAR DEVICES  
A group of devics are set forth that individually employ a transparent nonlinear dielectric element, such as a piezoelectric crystal, in the cavity of a laser. The crystal serves to generate...
3599112 LASER HAVING A TELESCOPIC SYSTEM RELATED TO THE OUTPUT REFLECTOR TO KEEP THE DIRECTION OF THE OUTPUT BEAM CONSTANT  
Apparatus for generating a laser beam in a constant spatial direction by a laser tube between a spherical resonator reflector and a spherical semipermeable tune-out reflector, includes a telescopic...
3586998 PULSED LASER OUTPUT CONTROL  
"Giant pulse" laser apparatus is described in which an absorber material is disposed in the resonant cavity in a concentrated portion of the beam of light emitted by the pumped working medium...
3586816 SPOT WELDING SYSTEM AND METHOD  
A system and method for microscopic spot welding with laser radiation. The invention, having particular relationship to microscopic multiple spot welding, employs mode selection of laser emitted...
3581228 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL MODE LOCKING IN A LASER EMPLOYING AN ACTIVE ABSORPTION CELL  
A laser that oscillates in multiple transverse and longitudinal modes is pulsed by a mutual adaptation of an absorption cell having a substantially matching absorption line and the other components...
3566128 OPTICAL COMMUNICATION ARRANGEMENT UTILIZING A MULTIMODE OPTICAL REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER FOR PILOT FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION  
A narrow band laser regenerative amplifier for a multiple-mode optical signal is included in the receiver of an optical transmission system in which a pilot, transmitted together with an...
3532879 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEFLECTING ATOMS  
3522553 PULSED LASER EMPLOYING AN ACTIVE ABSORPTION CELL  
3521190 LIQUID LENS LIQUID LASER CELL  
3518419 PROJECTION SYSTEM FOR CIRCULAR ARRAY OF LASER DIODES  
3517333 COHERENT OPTICAL DEVICES EMPLOYING INDUCED INHOMOGENEITIES IN NONFERROELECTRIC CRYSTALS  
3516013 SCANNING LASER HAVING A CONJUGATE CONCENTRIC CAVITY SO THAT THE DIRECTION IN WHICH LIGHT IS EMITTED CAN BE CONTROLLED  
3513410 LASER BEAM POWER DENSITY CONTROL FOR Q-SWITCHING  
3508166 PASSIVE OPTICAL ISOLATOR  
3506928 RADIATION SCANNING APPARATUS