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7561611 Extended-lifetime elements for excimer lasers  
The invention is directed to elements used in high power laser lithographic systems operating at below 250 nm, and in particular to elements that have a coating of selected materials to extend...
7553048 Stabilized mirror system for a handheld laser pointer  
A hand-held laser pointer is disclosed wherein the laser beam is isolated from unwanted hand tremor motions of the laser pointer housing. A laser beam is directed toward a pair of passively...
7539233 Lens holder and laser array unit using the same  
In a laser array unit in which a plurality of laser beams emitted from a laser array is received by a lens array, the lens holder for fixedly bonding the lens array is formed such that the length...
7512170 Method of forming mirrors by surface transformation of empty spaces in solid state materials  
A multi-layered reflective mirror formed of spaced-apart plate-shaped empty space patterns formed within a substrate is disclosed. The plurality of plate-shaped empty space patterns are formed by...
7508859 Optical scanning apparatus  
To provide an optical scanning apparatus which is strong against an external stress while suppressing an increase in the number of parts, an inserting portion 6 into which a laser light source...
7489714 Speckle reduction laser and laser display apparatus having the same  
A speckle reduction laser and a laser display apparatus having the speckle reduction laser are provided. The speckle reduction laser includes a semiconductor unit that comprises an active layer and...
7471712 Laser irradiating method and device for same  
Because a focal distance of a condenser lens is changed due to a change in temperature, when irradiation of a laser beam is restarted after the irradiation has stopped, it takes a long time to...
7469454 Mounting system for optical frequency reference cavities  
A technique for reducing the vibration sensitivity of laser-stabilizing optical reference cavities is based upon an improved design and mounting method for the cavity, wherein the cavity is mounted...
7463668 Wavelength tunable cavity with rotational movement  
A wavelength tunable cavity includes a first reflecting unit adapted to at least partially reflect a beam of electromagnetic radiation towards a second reflecting unit, adapted to at least...
7463667 Solid-state laser and multi-pass resonator  
A laser system may include a solid-state laser gain material (LGM) module. The system may also include a multi-pass resonator including a plurality of relay mirrors. The plurality of mirrors may be...
7463666 Laser with hybrid-unstable ring resonator  
A unidirectional ring laser oscillator has a travelling wave unstable mode in one transverse dimension and either a waveguide or freespace Gaussian mode in the orthogonal transverse dimension for...
7460578 On-chip lenses for diverting vertical cavity surface emitting laser beams  
An optical device includes a chip containing a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) active region that produces a laser beam on a first axis. The VCSEL can further include a post having a...
7460568 Apparatus as tuning filter  
An apparatus as a tuning filter is provided for tuning the wavelength of a laser or a filter between extensive bandwidths, including a reflecting element, an optical system and a movable mount set...
7457343 Lens structure, optical transmitter, and method for producing same  
In one embodiment, a lens structure has an object surface, an image surface, and an axicon mirror. The axicon mirror is defined by an inner diameter, an outer diameter, and a tilt angle, with the...
7457342 Laser device  
A laser device applied to a light source of laser scanning units (LSU) including a laser diode disposed on an accommodation hole of a flange. A collimator lens is arranged on one end of an inner...
7436874 Laser device  
According to the present invention, a first p-side electrode 7 A made of metal which is provided with regularly arranged holes 10 having a diameter smaller than a laser oscillation wavelength...
7433372 Device and method to stabilize beam shape and symmetry for high energy pulsed laser applications  
A beam mixer for increasing intensity symmetry along a selected axis of a beam (wherein the beam extends from a first edge to a second edge along the axis) is disclosed and may include a plurality...
7411989 Mechanically Q-switched CO2 laser  
A CO 2 laser has a resonator mirror that oscillates about an axis perpendicular to the resonator axis through an angular range of oscillation sufficient that the resonator is only able to deliver...
7394840 Virtual optical axis determination using machine vision for passive optical alignment  
Alignment of a laser apparatus is achieved by actively aligning components of the laser apparatus and then passively deriving an optical axis from that alignment. This passive derivation can be...
7382812 Solid state laser device  
The transmittance of an etalon relative to an oscillating line having the wavelength of 1061.6 to 1062.2 nm by an Nd:YAG laser medium 3 is set to 0.9 or lower (the maximum value of the...
7352791 Optical systems including wavefront correcting optical surfaces  
The present invention relates to optical systems, beam expanding assemblies, line narrowing modules, and lasers having refractive optical elements with wavefront correcting optical surfaces. The...
7346093 DUV light source optical element improvements  
A high power narrow band, high repetition rate laser light source optical improvement apparatus and methods are disclosed with a fast angularly positionable mirror having a mirror mounting frame, a...
7339974 Tunable semiconductor laser  
A tunable semiconductor laser includes gain medium, wavelength-selective element and a laser mode matching element. The wavelength-selective element comprises a first light absorbing plate...
7336691 Apparatus for combining beams from repetitively pulsed lasers along a common path  
Two pulse sequences are delivered by two lasers. A rotating segmented mirror having one or more reflective areas and one or more transmissive areas is rotated synchronously with the delivery of the...
7321114 Apparatus and method for beam drift compensation  
An apparatus and method for maintaining a desired position of a collimated light beam are provided. An optical system includes one or more passive optical elements movably positioned in the beam...
7317746 Method and device for passive alignment  
The present invention is related to a method and device for precision and passive alignment such as precision and passive alignment technology for low cost array fibre access components. A laser...
7317740 Mode locker for fiber laser  
A mode locking device of fiber laser includes a bar structural body, having a central hollow region, extending along a reference line of the bar structural body. The central hollow region has two...
7296359 Laser alignment system and method  
Provided is a device/method of alignment of a laser's beam with the laser's support system so that the beam is substantially parallel in a chosen direction with respect to a reference line on the...
7293923 Laser module for circular saw  
A laser module used in a circular saw to guide cutting of the saw blade of the circular saw is constructed to have a hollow housing, a focal lens mounted in the housing, a laser diode mounted in...
7277467 Externally aligned laser module  
Disclosed is a laser module case having a snout disposed within a wall of the case, wherein the snout may allow alignment of a laser with an optical fiber after closure of the case. The snout has...
7272161 Epitaxial layer for laser diode ridge protection  
A semiconductor laser formed from a semiconductor wafer has an active layer, at last two optical cladding layers, and a ridge waveguide. A ridge top surface of the ridge waveguide is deposited from...
7266139 Optical semiconductor device module and bidirectional module  
A semiconductor laser diode optically coupled to an optical fiber is mounted on a stem. A cap having a light transmissive hole between the optical fiber and the semiconductor laser diode is fixed...
7245643 Semiconductor laser module and method of manufacturing the same  
A semiconductor laser module according to the present invention includes a polarization-synthesizing module having a polarization-synthesizing means configured to polarization synthesize two laser...
7230968 Semiconductor laser device and solid-state laser device using same  
A semiconductor laser device including a laser element stack array emitting a two-dimensional array shaped group of laser beams consisting of rows of laser beams arranged linearly in parallel in a...
7167500 Laser apparatus such as a construction laser apparatus  
The invention relates to a laser apparatus as construction laser apparatus ( 10 ) comprising a light source accommodated inside a housing ( 12 ). For providing an increased protection of the...
7142577 Method of forming mirrors by surface transformation of empty spaces in solid state materials and structures thereon  
A multi-layered reflective mirror formed of spaced-apart plate-shaped empty space patterns formed within a substrate is disclosed. The plurality of plate-shaped empty space patterns are formed by...
7123632 Laser beam source  
In a laser beam source for projecting laser pulses, having a laser-active medium ( 10 ), a controllable pump device ( 11 ) for exciting the medium ( 10 ), a resonator ( 13 ) for inducing...
7116501 Optical element holder, exposure apparatus, and device fabricating method  
An optical element holder for holding an optical element includes a holding element to hold the optical element or a holding part provided to the optical element unitedly, wherein there is...
7088762 Multi-wavelength laser apparatus with rotatable mirror  
In a laser apparatus, a rotatable reflection mirror rotatable on or parallel to a resonance optical axis of a laser medium is disposed changeably between a first and second positions by driving of...
7088750 Adjustable laser module  
An adjustable laser module has a main body, a laser generator provided in the hollow interior of the main body at a first end thereof for emitting a laser beam, a cylindrical lens provided in the...
7085304 Diode-pumped solid state disk laser and method for producing uniform laser gain  
Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for amplifying a source light in a solid state laser. An amplifier module for the solid state laser suitably includes a disk having two substantially...
7075958 Method of monitoring an optical signal from a laser  
A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring an optical signal from a solid state laser. The method includes the steps of providing a planar substrate defined by opposing planar surfaces and...
7068373 Piezoelectric transducer configured for use as a path length control apparatus for an optical device comprising a central void region  
A path length control apparatus (PLC) for a ring laser gyroscope (RLG) provides a flattened surface for reflecting a laser beam. The flattened surface is achieved by providing a void behind the...
7064908 Laser beam jitter reduction device on a laser optical bench  
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a device including a first optical table, a second optical table, and at least one optical mount coupled to the first and second optical...
7061947 Partially mirrored beam tap for wavelength lockers  
A partially mirrored beam tap for use in wavelength and power monitoring, wherein the partially mirrored beam tap splits off at least two beams from an elliptical Gaussian output beam, wherein a...
7050477 Semiconductor laser apparatus  
A semiconductor laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser element, a lead frame on which the semiconductor laser element is mounted, and an enclosure attached to the lead frame. When a...
7042922 Method for calibrating photonic crossconnect device  
A method for calibrating a preferred disposition for a moveable first mirror of an optical switch core of a photonic crossconnect device relative to a second mirror thereof, the method comprising...
7006549 Apparatus for reducing spacing of beams delivered by stacked diode-laser bars  
Two parallel sets of groups of beams from diode laser bars are spaced apart by a distance V. The two sets of beam groups are interleaved by a beam combiner to provide on set of beam groups spaced...
7006538 Apparatus for locking bending mechanism that bends reflex type wavelength selection element  
A an apparatus for locking a bending mechanism that bends a reflex type wavelength selection element for a bending mechanism that bends a reflex type wavelength selection element comprises a...
6999494 Packaging and passive alignment of microlens and molded receptacle  
A planar wafer-level packaging method is provided for a laser and a microlens. Light from the laser is directed and shaped by the microlens to couple into an external light guide. A plurality of...