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7327768 Wavelength conversion module  
A wavelength conversion module according to the present invention includes an external resonator, a semiconductor laser module and a wavelength conversion device for converting a wavelength of...
7313155 High power Q-switched laser for soft tissue ablation  
The present invention discloses a high power Q-switched, intracavity frequency-doubled laser for laser ablation of soft tissue. Operating a high power Q-switched laser in a frequent on-off mode is...
7305015 Ultraviolet laser-generating device and defect inspection apparatus and method therefor  
An ultraviolet laser-generating device, for use in a defect inspection apparatus and a method thereof, etc., comprising: a laser ray source for irradiating and emitting a basic wave of laser ray...
7301981 Methods for synchronized pulse shape tailoring  
A plurality of subresonators ( 12, 14 ), having different design configurations, share a common resonator section ( 18 ) such that the lasing action can be substantially synchronized to provide...
7296897 Projection display apparatus, system, and method  
In an apparatus, system, and method for generating a projected display, a light source generates red, green, and blue light using arrays of extended cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers....
7289549 Lasers for synchronized pulse shape tailoring  
A plurality of subresonators ( 12, 14 ), having different design configurations, share a common resonator section ( 18 ) such that the lasing action can be substantially synchronized to provide...
7286581 Self-monitoring light emitting apparatus  
A self-monitoring light source is provided. The self-monitoring light source includes a light source that generates light and a light monitor that receives a portion of the generated light. The...
7286580 Method for pulse control in a laser including a stimulated brillouin scattering mirror system  
A laser system, such as a master oscillator/power amplifier system, comprises a gain medium and a stimulated Brillouin scattering SBS mirror system. The SBS mirror system includes an in situ...
7286282 Wavelength conversion method, wavelength conversion laser, and laser beam machining apparatus  
A fundamental laser beam is wavelength converted through nonlinear optical crystals by traveling in one direction, sequentially through two nonlinear optical crystals arranged in series. A...
7272158 Highly efficient waveguide pulsed THz electromagnetic radiation source and group-matched waveguide THz electromagnetic radiation source  
Electromagnetic radiation sources operating in the Terahertz (THz) region capable of overcoming the Manley-Rowe limits of known optical schemes by achieving phase matching between a THz wave and...
7269189 Coherent light source based on sum-frequency mixing  
A method and a device for generating visible coherent radiation is disclosed. The visible coherent radiation is generated by sum-frequency mixing of a first fundamental beam from a diode laser and...
7248618 Systems and methods for second harmonic generation using three-dimensional Bragg grating elements  
Apparatus and methods for altering one or more spectral, spatial, or temporal characteristics of a light-emitting device are disclosed. Generally, such apparatus may include a volume Bragg grating...
7248608 Monoblock laser  
An improved monoblock laser cavity is made by elongating the Optical parametric oscillation (OPO) cavity. This can be accomplished by changing the coatings on the OPO material and Q-switch and by...
7245805 Method and apparatus for producing a multiple optical channel source from a supercontinuum generator for WDM communication  
A system and method for producing a multiple optical channel source (MOCS). The method includes producing the SC in a medium using at least one femto-second or pico-second optical input pump pulse;...
7242700 Stabilized frequency-converted laser system  
A laser system includes an optically pumped laser resonator that produces a fundamental-wavelength beam. A temperature-tuned frequency converter outside the laser resonator converts a portion of...
7239653 Method and apparatus for generating MID and long IR wavelength radiation  
A narrow line width optical parametric oscillator (OPO) ( 10 ) is used a pump for a tunable optical parametric oscillator to enable it to produce a mid and long wavelength IR output over a wide...
7239654 Wave length plate, wavelength filter and wavelength monitor  
On a plate of birefringent crystal made of an LiNbO 3 crystal or an LiTaO 3 crystal, a conductive substance is adhered to the whole periphery of side surfaces of the plate that intersect an...
7236674 Optical waveguide device, coherent light source using the same and optical apparatus having the same  
An optical waveguide device has a substrate composed of a nonlinear optical material and a periodically domain-inverted structure having the same composition as the nonlinear optical material,...
7218653 Wavelength conversion method and wavelength conversion element  
An ultraviolet laser is provided that increases the conversion efficiency of laser beams when harmonics having wavelengths of less than 355 nm are generated by converting laser beams with a...
7211812 Entangled photon pair generating apparatus  
An entangled photon pair generating apparatus has a first definite polarization photon pair generating apparatus for generating a first definite polarization photon pair beam according to an...
7209504 Solid laser apparatus  
A solid laser apparatus has either a combination of a lowpass filter ( 9 c ) and a highpass filter ( 9 d ) or a bandpass filter 9 f provided in its output control circuit ( 8, 9, 10 ) for...
7209500 Stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror system, high power laser and laser peening method and system using same  
A laser system, such as a master oscillator/power amplifier system, comprises a gain medium and a stimulated Brillouin scattering SBS mirror system. The SBS mirror system includes an in situ...
7209501 Multi-wavelength laser source based on two optical laser beat signal and method  
In the system of the present invention, two DFB laser outputs are combined in a first stage to produce a beat signal. The two main channels interfere with each other to form beat signals. This...
7202993 Production of tuneable picosecond light pulses in a visible spectral range  
The invention relates to a device for the production of tuneable light impulses in a visible spectral range, comprising a laser system (LS) which emits femtosecond light impulses in the infrared...
7198738 Cesium-lithium-borate crystal and its application to frequency conversion of laser light  
The present invention provides a cesium-lithium-borate crystal, which can be used as a high-performance wavelength converting crystal, having a chemical composition expressed as CsLiB6O10, and...
7184144 High speed swept frequency spectroscopic system  
A high scan rate spectroscopic system converts a narrow-band laser pulse into a multispectral pulse, using, for example, a nonlinear fiber. The multispectral pulse is then converted to a swept...
7171089 Enhanced supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear fibers using post-fabrication processing  
Enhancement of the supercontinuum generation performance of a highly-nonlinear optical fiber (HNLF) is accomplished by performing at least one post-processing treatment on the HNLF. Particularly,...
7161725 Frequency locker  
A method and assembly for frequency stabilization of an optical signal especially from a laser, the assembly ( 11 ) comprising beam splitter ( 15 ), a passive frequency discriminator ( 16 ), and a...
7158548 Laser cavity  
A laser cavity comprising a gain medium and first and second end mirrors, wherein the laser cavity further comprises a birefringent material and a mirror arranged to fold light propagating within...
7145924 Solid laser apparatus  
A solid laser apparatus has either a combination of a lowpass filter and a highpass filter or a bandpass filter provided in its output control circuit for increasing the gain and adjusting the...
7142354 Wavelength conversion method, wavelength conversion device, and laser beam machine  
In a wavelength converting method, an ambient that is in contact with a surface of a non-linear optical crystal from which wavelength-converted light is outputted is a gas that is lower in content...
7142570 Apparatus and method for generating optical carrier for microwave and millimeterwave photonics system  
An apparatus and a method for generating an optical carrier is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a light source generating a pump light; a SBS generator for stimulated Brillouin scattering the...
7136403 Crystal mounting in solid state laser systems  
Crystal housing apparatus for adjustably positioning cooperating non-linear optical crystals in a laser beam generating system, includes a housing ( 50 ) with entry ( 60 ) and exit ( 62 ) windows...
7130321 Intracavity frequency-tripled CW laser with traveling-wave ring-resonator  
A traveling-wave ring laser resonator includes one or more gain-elements for generating fundamental radiation and three optically nonlinear crystals. A portion of the fundamental radiation is...
7110426 Laser beam generating apparatus  
A laser beam generating apparatus is configured such that a laser beam having a first wavelength obtained by a semiconductor laser containing gallium nitride is led in an external resonator using a...
7095772 Extreme chirped/stretched pulsed amplification and laser  
Methods, devices and systems for generating ultrashort optical linear chirped pulses with very high power by amplifying the pulses so that their temporal duration is longer than the storage time of...
7088744 Laser for use in non-linear optics  
The combination of coupling modes and a Q-switch allows amplitude modulated laser pulses to be produced which contain a high output capability and high repetitive rate. The envelope of the pulse of...
7079557 Intracavity OPO laser  
A laser having an optical parametric oscillator for providing a preselected wavelength beam is provided. A nonlinear crystal cut for phase matching condition preferably cut for noncritical phase...
7075955 Integrated narrow-line tunable optical parametric oscillator  
An integrated optical parametric oscillator, having an optical parametric oscillation region to convert a pump source into a signal beam and an idler beam, and a fine-steering region to adjust...
7076138 Nanophotonic devices based on quantum systems embedded in frequency bandgap media  
The present invention describes nanophotonic materials and devices for both classical and quantum optical signal processing, transmission, amplification, and generation of light, which are based on...
7072367 Systems for generating high-power short-pulse laser light  
A method for generating ultra-short pulse amplified Raman laser light. Short pulse laser light is amplified, and a portion thereof is introduced into a Raman oscillator to produce compressed laser...
H002161 Solid state laser pumped by visible light-emitting-diode  
Visible light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) are inexpensive, provide emissions in many wavelengths and are powerful enough to pump solid state laser rods. The LED light is directed to the laser rod (laser...
7072368 Optical contacting method and apparatus  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for improving the performance of a microlaser. A laser material ( 110 ) is optically contacted to a nonlinear material ( 120 ), either directly or through an...
7065109 Laser with narrow bandwidth antireflection filter for frequency selection  
A laser includes a narrow bandwidth AR coating for defining a frequency range for laser emission within the laser cavity. Advantageously, the narrow-band AR coating has a very low loss, which can...
7065110 Scalable wavelength shifted laser source and method  
A laser array architecture scalable to very high powers by fiber amplifiers, but in which the output wavelength is selectable, and not restricted by the wavelengths usually inherent in the choice...
7058097 Wavelength locking for multi-wavelength laser source  
New systems and methods for wavelength locking for a class of multi-wavelength laser sources (MWLS) are provided. In this type of MWLS, the set of output wavelength channels are produced from a...
7039077 Optical wavelength converting apparatus, and optical wavelength converting method  
An optical wavelength converting apparatus includes a first semiconductor laser, a second semiconductor laser, and a wavelength converting element for converting first and second laser light from...
7035297 Continuous wave sodium beacon excitation source  
1064-nm and 1319-nm light respectively generated by two lasers is combined and injected into a doubly resonant sum-frequency generator. The optical path length of the sum-frequency generator is...
7016382 Method and apparatus for stabilizing laser wavelength  
Laser wavelength stabilization is achieved by locating a low selectivity reference filter in a reference path of a laser beam. The low selectivity reference filter, with a periodicity greater than...
7016389 Diode pumped laser with intracavity harmonics  
A diode end-pumped solid state laser is provided which produces improved power output, long term stability and improved conversion efficiency from the pumping power, high as well as low power...