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8160114 Single longitudinal mode laser diode  
A single-mode, etched facet distributed Bragg reflector laser includes an AlGaInAs/InP laser cavity, a front mirror stack with multiple Fabry-Perot elements, a rear DBR reflector, and a rear...
8139616 Pulsed light generator and pulsed fiber laser  
A pulsed light generator of the invention includes: an excitation light source; a fiber grating into which excitation light from the excitation light source enters; a rare-earth doped optical fiber...
8130800 Mode-locked solid state lasers using diode laser excitation  
A mode-locked laser employs a coupled-polarization scheme for efficient longitudinal pumping by reshaped laser diode bars. One or more dielectric polarizers are configured to reflect a pumping...
8126023 Laser output switching by transverse mode modulation  
A pulsed laser for machining, has a mode switch, e.g. Q-switch device (15, 30, 40), in a resonant optical cavity (20) capable of supporting a given lasing mode, e.g. a transverse mode of...
8111722 Low-noise RF oscillation and optical comb generation based on nonlinear optical resonator  
Techniques and devices based on optical resonators made of nonlinear optical materials and nonlinear wave mixing to generate RF or microwave oscillations and optical comb signals.
8085821 Light-enhancing device and method based on use of an optically active lasing medium in combination with digital planar holography  
The light-enhancing system of the invention comprises a laser diode in which a fully reflecting mirror and/or a partially reflecting mirror of the laser diode is made in the form of digital planar...
8081667 Single-mode high power multimode fiber laser system  
A high power single mode fiber laser system is configured with an active fiber including coextending multimode core (MM) and cladding around the MM core. The MM core is doped with one or more ions...
8023548 Diode lasers type of devices with good coupling between field distribution and gain  
Diode lasers type of devices with good coupling between field distribution and gain are disclosed. A single element has a flat field distribution that couples with the uniform current injection in...
7995625 Resonator of hybrid laser diode  
Provided is a resonator of a hybrid laser diode. The resonator includes: a substrate including a semiconductor layer where a hybrid waveguide, a multi-mode waveguide, and a single mode waveguide...
7983312 Method and apparatus for generation and amplification of light in a semi-guiding high aspect ratio core fiber  
A planar laser gain medium and laser system. The novel laser gain medium includes an active core having a high aspect ratio cross-section with a fast-axis dimension and a slow-axis dimension,...
7949021 Light source apparatus  
The present invention relates to a light source apparatus having a structure to enable a short pulse optical output with high pulse energy or a high pulse peak equivalent to that of a Q switch...
7944957 Surface emitting semiconductor laser, method for fabricating surface emitting semiconductor laser, module, light source apparatus, data processing apparatus, light sending apparatus, optical spatial transmission apparatus, and optical spatial transmission system  
A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes a substrate, a lower reflective mirror formed on the substrate, an active layer formed on the lower reflective mirror, an upper reflective mirror...
7929582 Systems and methods for generating a tunable laser beam  
Systems and methods of generating a tunable laser beam are disclosed. An example method includes: generating coherent optical beams from a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);...
7839908 Mode control waveguide laser device  
Provided is a device capable of oscillating a plurality of oscillation modes within a laser medium for obtaining a fundamental wave output which is easy in output scaling and high in luminance,...
7822081 Resonator  
This invention relates to a wavelength tunable light source, comprising a main resonator, having a first and a second mirrored end, defining an effective cavity length, i.e. an optical beam path...
7822084 Method and apparatus for stabilizing and tuning the bandwidth of laser light  
According to aspects of an embodiment of the disclosed subject matter, method and apparatus are disclose that may comprise adjusting a differential timing between gas discharges in the seed laser...
7796656 Enhanced efficiency laterally-coupled distributed feedback laser  
The invention describes the method and apparatus for enhanced efficiency in a laterally-coupled distributed feedback (LC-DFB) laser. In a device featuring the effective ridge design, lateral...
7796672 Light source device and projector including light source device  
A light source device includes: a laser light source emitting a laser beam of a prescribed wavelength; a nonlinear optical element, disposed facing a light emergence surface of the laser light...
7778289 Optically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor laser and optical projection apparatus having a semiconductor laser such as this  
An optically pumped, surface-emitting semiconductor laser having a mode-selective apparatus (7) which is intended for suppression of predeterminable, higher resonator modes of the semiconductor...
7769071 Silica sol gel micro-laser on a substrate  
Silica sol gel micro-lasers and methods of fabricating micro-lasers on a chip or a wafer. A silica sol gel micro-laser includes a silica sol gel optical micro-cavity, a substrate, and a support...
RE41438 Fiber amplifier with one single mode core having modified gain spectrum  
Disclosed is a fiber amplifier system including a gain fiber having a single-mode core containing dopant ions capable of producing stimulated emission of light at wavelength λs when pumped with ...
7742509 Single-longitudinal mode laser with orthogonal-polarization traveling-wave mode  
A single longitudinal-mode laser includes a first mirror and a second mirror that define a laser cavity therein that does not include a linear polarizer. A birefringent gain medium can generate a...
7711016 Semiconductor laser with side mode suppression  
Systems and methods for stripping an optical mode from a semiconductor laser. A waveguide layer with multiple layers is included in the semiconductor laser and is typically arranged beneath the...
7675958 Intra-cavity non-degenerate laguerre mode generator  
A lasing method including the steps of providing a laser resonator; utilizing birefringence compensation in said resonator whereby said resonator is induced to operate in a Laguerre-Gaussian higher...
7649915 Pulsed laser sources  
Various embodiments include modelocked fiber laser resonators that may be coupled with optical amplifiers. An isolator may separate the laser resonator from the amplifier, although certain...
7646797 Use of current channeling in multiple node laser systems and methods thereof  
Current channels, blocking areas, or strips in a semiconductor laser are used to channel injected current into the antinodal region of the optical standing wave present in the optical cavity, while...
7623555 High power semiconductor laser diode  
Semiconductor laser diodes, particularly high power ridge waveguide laser diodes, are often used in opto-electronics as so-called pump laser diodes for fiber amplifiers in optical communication...
7620089 Surface-emitting type semiconductor laser  
A surface-emitting type semiconductor laser includes: a lower mirror; an active layer formed above the lower mirror; and an upper mirror formed above the active layer, wherein the upper mirror...
7602831 Semiconductor laser device having an insulation region  
A semiconductor laser device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, an active region formed on the second surface of the substrate, a...
7574026 Method for the 3d modeling of a tubular structure  
The invention provides a method for 3D modeling of a three-dimensional tubular structure of an examination object from 2D projection images (D) of the structure taken from different projection...
7555023 Quasi-synchronously pumped lasers for self-starting pulse generation and widely tunable systems  
A laser system for generating self-starting few cycle laser pulses or widely tunable laser pulses is provided. The laser system includes a modelocked pump source that provides a pulsed pump signal....
7545843 Ultra-high Q micro-resonator and method of fabrication  
A micro-cavity resonator including a micro-cavity capable of high and ultra-high Q values and a silicon substrate. Portions of the silicon substrate located below a periphery of the micro-cavity...
7542489 Injection seeding employing continuous wavelength sweeping for master-slave resonance  
A method for effective injection seeding is based on continuous wavelength sweeping for matching the injected seeds with one or more longitudinal mode(s) of the slave oscillator in every pump...
7535628 Laser light source, method of laser oscillation, and method of laser processing  
A laser light source includes a light source section for outputting pulse laser light λ1, λ2 with a mutually identical repetition frequency, an optical amplification section for amplifying and o...
7526004 Mode-locked laser apparatus  
A mode-locked laser apparatus includes a resonator (laser cavity), a mode-locking device placed in the resonator, a solid-stated laser medium that is doped with Yb (ytterbium) and placed in the...
7519091 All-optical 2R regenerator using self-seeded laser diode  
The present invention is a self-seeded laser diode. The laser diode obtains a gain by itself without using expansive erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Hence, the cost is reduced and the system is...
7519092 Tunable laser source with optical wavelength addressing  
An optical apparatus including a tunable master laser from which all or some of a beam is injected into at least one “slave ” laser having a cavity with an amplifier medium and a dynamic hol...
7483470 Semiconductor laser capable of coupling with single mode optical fiber at high coupling efficiency  
A semiconductor laser includes a substrate made of InP, an active layer including a multiquantum well structure, which is formed in a width of 7 to 14 μm on the substrate, and an n-type cladding ...
7480316 Geodesic device comprising a laser source  
A laser source is used in a geodesic device to improve the emission of laser light, in which the laser diodes emitting multimodal radiation are influenced by a mode-selective component such that...
7443891 Widely tunable laser  
A Fabry-Perot laser and a micro-actuator are utilized to provide continuous tuning over a range of wavelengths.
7426222 Laser apparatus  
A laser apparatus is disclosed. An optical element receives at least a part of laser light emitted from a laser generation source and generates interference fringes. Each of first and second...
7418205 Method and apparatus for controlling a frequency hopping laser  
An optical spread spectrum communication system includes a tunable laser which sequentially outputs optical signals having different wavelengths. The laser produces a frequency spectrum having a...
7382808 Apparatus and method for spatial mode selection of planar waveguide and thin slab lasers in the large cross section size direction  
A method and apparatus for spatial mode selection of planar waveguide and thin slab lasers in the laser's large cross section size direction. The planar laser has a small cross section size...
7362784 Laser irradiation method, laser irradiation apparatus, and semiconductor device  
An object of the present invention is obtaining a semiconductor film with uniform characteristics by improving irradiation variations of the semiconductor film. The irradiation variations are...
7286578 High-power diode laser system  
A diode laser system having a diode amplifier member with a large transverse gain area. The diode amplifier member includes an amplifying medium for amplifying a number of spatial modes of a...
7266135 Method for producing laser with resonant reflector  
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method is employed that is directed to forming a resonant reflector on an optoelectronic device, such as a semiconductor laser for example. The...
7260122 Modeless wavelength-agile laser  
An external cavity laser may be swept rapidly in frequency and cavity length to prevent formation of modes providing improved spectral response and light characteristics.
7188033 Method and system of computing and rendering the nature of the chemical bond of hydrogen-type molecules and molecular ions  
Provided is a system of computing and rendering a nature of a chemical bond based on physical, Maxwellian solutions of charge, mass, and current density functions of hydrogen-type molecules and...
7177330 Method and apparatus for controlling the polarization of an optical signal  
A method of controlling the state of polarization of an optical signal includes injecting the optical signal into a laser diode and matching the wavelength of the optical signal to a longitudinal...
7167312 Beam shaping optics and module for a diode laser arrangement  
A beam shaping optical arrangement combines three incoming laser beams that are mutually laterally offset in two orthogonal directions (X and Y), including an incoming first central laser beam and...