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6233025 Process and apparatus for generating at least three laser beams of different wavelength for the display of color video pictures  
In a process for generating at least three laser beams of different wavelengths for displaying color video pictures, a pulsed laser is used to generate light. The light output of the pulsed laser...
6229047 Dipole aligned NLO chromophores  
A nonlinear optical material which is characterized as having a relatively high macroscopic dipole moment achieved through the generally parallel packing of dipolar molecules in a relative...
6215800 Optical parametric oscillator with dynamic output coupler  
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus that increases the conversion efficiency of optical parametric oscillators. The apparatus comprises an intracavity difference-frequency...
6198756 CW far-UV laser system with two active resonators  
A laser system includes two separate active laser-resonators. A first of the laser-resonators delivers laser-radiation at a first wavelength, and the second generates fundamental laser-radiation at...
6195198 Optical wavelength conversion system  
An optical wavelength conversion system includes an optical waveguide type optical wavelength conversion element having periodic domain reversals, and a semiconductor laser which generates a laser...
6192058 Multiwavelength actively mode-locked external cavity semiconductor laser  
A multiwavelength mode-locked (MWML) angled-stripe SOA laser that emits multiple discrete groups of wavelengths simultaneously in a short time interval, where each group is located at a wavelength...
6178035 Optical device and method of manufacturing the same  
An optical device includes a light transmitting non-linear optical material having a first face and a second face. The first and second faces oppose each other. The first face has a plurality of...
6169755 Laser-diode-pumped solid state laser and an optical system using the same  
A laser-diode-pumped solid state laser comprises: a solid laser medium; a laser-diode capable of producing a laser beam for exciting the solid laser medium; a pair of mirrors which forms a...
6167067 Optical parametric oscillator with monolithic dual PPLN elements with intrinsic mirrors  
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus that increases the conversion efficiency of optical parametric oscillators and also reduces overall system size and susceptibility to...
6144679 Method and apparatus for providing a coherent terahertz source  
A coherent optical source, having a center frequency in the terahertz band can be generated. Two coherent optical sources of different frequencies can be mixed in a nonlinear crystal to generate an...
6141362 Reduction of B-integral accumulation in lasers  
A pulsed laser is provided wherein the B-integral accumulated in the laser pulse is reduced using a semiconductor wafer. A laser pulse is generated by a laser pulse source. The laser pulse passes...
6137820 Optically pumped laser  
Optically pumped laser wherein the light beam P, which comes, for example, via light conductors 4 from the pump light source 200, is split into two component beams (T1, T2), for example, by a beam...
6122299 Angled distributed reflector optical device with enhanced light confinement  
A optical medium, such as an angled distributed reflector, e.g., an angular grating, or α-DFB laser diode or a waveguide wavelength selective filter, has a mean optical axis defining an optical...
6094445 High-efficiency cavity doubling laser  
A high-efficiency cavity doubling laser according to the invention contains a laser diode, a laser crystal and a non-linear crystal, is characterized in having a first gap between the laser diode...
6088379 Ultraviolet laser apparatus and semiconductor exposure apparatus  
An ultraviolet laser apparatus which generates laser light at 193 nm to 213 nm with high temporal and spatial coherence and relatively high power is disclosed. The UV laser apparatus provides a...
6078600 Generation and use of high power 213 nm and 266 nm laser radiation and tunable 210-400 nm laser radiation with BBO crystal matrix array  
A 213 nm laser beam is capable of single photon ablative photodecomposition for the removal of a polymer or biological material substrate. Breaking the molecular bonds and displacing the molecules...
6058127 Tunable microcavity and method of using nonlinear materials in a photonic crystal  
A nonlinear dielectric material is incorporated within a photonic crystal as a means of changing the refractive index of a defect. In this way, the resonant frequency can be easily adjusted, after...
6058126 Laser-diode-pumped solid state laser and radiation image read-out system  
In a laser-diode-pumped solid state laser, a solid laser crystal is pumped by a pumping laser beam emitted from a laser diode and a harmonic of light emitted from the pumped solid laser crystal is...
6047009 Wavelength conversion laser  
In a wavelength conversion laser, a laser crystal is pumped by light and the wavelength of a solid state laser beam emitted from the laser crystal is converted by a nonlinear optical crystal having...
6047011 Optical harmonic generator  
6044094 Laser system with optical parametric oscillator  
A laser device which is tunable within the mid-IR range is provided. The device includes a thin etalon, formed as an uncoated plane-parallel plate of high refractive index material, which is...
6028869 Polarization control element and solid state laser  
A polarization control element for controlling the direction of polarization and the longitudinal mode of a laser is formed by cutting a birefringent crystal so that its light incident face and...
6026102 Multi element single mode microchip lasers  
A microchip laser is formed from at least one portion of laser material and at least one nonlinear crystal. The laser material and nonlinear crystal are in physical contact with each other and an...
6026101 Solid-state laser apparatus  
A high powered solid-state laser apparatus that is small in size and low in cost. The solid-state laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser, a laser crystal, an etalon element, a non-linear...
6023480 Fast tunable multiwavelength laser with folded imaging arrangement of nonoverlapping focal regions  
A compact multiwavelength laser arrangement includes a reflective waveguide grating combined with two arrays of reflecting waveguide elements located in separate focal regions formed by the...
6021142 Optical surface treatment  
A method of hygroscopic optical material fabrication comprising the steps of cutting a hygroscopic optical material to generate an optical substrate of appropriate dimensions and polishing the...
6014249 Apparatus and method for the generation of high-power femtosecond pulses from a fiber amplifier  
An apparatus generates femtosecond pulses from laser amplifiers by nonlinear frequency conversion. The implementation of nonlinear frequency-conversion allows the design of highly nonlinear...
6011809 Multi-wavelength laser apparatus and continuous variable wavelength laser apparatus  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-wavelength laser apparatus and a continuous variable wavelength laser apparatus capable of simultaneously outputting laser beams with a...
5999547 Tunable optical parametric oscillator  
An optical parameter oscillator system is proposed for use in a continuous wave pump laser system having a single-frequency pump source. The system comprises a single-resonance resonator having a...
5995522 Pulsed optical parametric oscillator  
A pulsed optical parametric oscillator comprising a spectrally pure source or emitting pumping wave pulses, a non-linear crystal to which the pumping wave is applied, a resonant cavity for the...
5991316 Laser light emitting device, laser beacon device and laser imager display device  
A laser beam generating device which, by addition of a simplified structure, can enlarge the spectral width of the laser light and lower the coherence to a moderate value. The laser light...
5987041 Laser apparatus and method for emission of laser beam using same  
A laser apparatus capable of emitting a laser beam upon wavelength conversion and intensity modulation, which comprises a fundamental wave resonance means comprising a light emitting part, an...
5986828 Optical power limiter utilizing nonlinear refraction  
A power limiter is provided consisting of two cells of optically transparent material having a low index of refraction, but a large third order susceptibility to electric polarization. The input...
5982788 Semi-monolithic cavity for external resonant frequency doubling and method of performing the same  
The fabrication of an optical cavity for use in a laser, in a frequency doubling external cavity, or any other type of nonlinear optical device, can be simplified by providing the nonlinear crystal...
5970077 Apparatus for efficiently transforming a single frequency, linearly polarized laser beam into principally two orthogonally polarized beams having different frequencies  
Electro-optical devices comprising a multifaceted anisotropic acousto-optical crystal for transforming a single-frequency beam comprising two individual linearly-orthogonally, polarized input beams...
5966390 Passively mode-locked short pulse laser  
In a passively mode-locked short pulse laser arrangement including a laser resonator to which a pump beam is supplied, a titanium-sapphire (Ti:S) laser crystal, an optical Kerr element formed by...
5963567 Multi-wavelength laser source  
A light source for generating many precisely spaced wavelength channels, based on the periodic modulation of light. CW light is periodically amplitude modulated and then coupled to a non-linear...
5960015 Two mode amplitude-stable intracavity-doubled laser and method  
A two-mode, amplitude-stable laser is disclosed which provides two-mode operation (i.e., two fundamental lasing modes of similar, but distinct frequencies), resulting in low noise output at...
5953154 Optically parametric oscillator and wavelength-tunable laser system  
An object of the present invention is to speed up a wavelength tuning speed thereby varying both wavelengths of signal light and idler light at high speed. The optically parametric oscillator...
5943350 Laser light generating apparatus  
An object of the invention is to provide a laser light generating apparatus capable of minimizing loss in a resonator to give a high efficiency of wavelength conversion. A resonator comprises two...
5940417 CsB.sub.3 O .sub.5 crystal and its nonlinear optical devices  
The present invention relates to single crystals of CsB 3 O 5 having large dimension and high quality which can be grown by pulling methods. The single crystals of CsB 3 O 5 are useful as NLO...
5923685 Wavelength selectable laser oscillator in wavelength tunable laser  
An object of the present invention is to provide a wavelength selectable laser oscillator in wavelength tunable laser by which high-speed tuning of wavelength can be achieved while utilizing...
5920588 Method and device for generation of phase conjugate light and wavelength conversion, and system having the device  
Methods and devices for generation of phase conjugate light and wavelength conversion, and systems each having the device. In a basic structure of the present invention, a signal light beam is...
5898718 Method and apparatus for optimizing the output of a multi-peaked frequency harmonic generator  
A method and devices for obtaining optimized output harmonic frequency light at a plurality of peak frequencies from a nonlinear ferroelectric generator optical device by controlling the overall...
5889798 Active-switching laser and microchip laser  
The invention relates to a laser cavity having an active laser medium and two mirrors forming a Fabry-Perot cavity, characterized in that the cavity is at the optical stability limit and in that...
H001791 Stimulated Brillouin scattering for fiber-optic links  
An attenuator/filter is disclosed that is inherently tuned and provides for a stimulated Brillouin scattering effect having a predetermined threshold that fixes the output thereof at a predefined...
5870421 Short pulsewidth, high pulse repetition frequency laser system  
A laser system capable of high speed silicon wafer dicing is disclosed. A laser with high average power, high repetition rate, ultra-short pulsewidth, and excellent beam quality is described. This...
5862163 Apparatus for generating ultraviolet laser radiation  
An apparatus for generating ultraviolet laser radiation according to the present invention includes a laser light source and a frequency conversion device made of a nonlinear optical crystal on...
5856996 Compact efficient solid state laser  
The invention provides a compactly built solid state laser, which can be pumped by high power semiconductor laser diodes and uses two or more laser crystals as the laser gain or amplification...
5850407 Third-harmonic generator with uncoated brewster-cut dispersive output facet  
A third-harmonic crystal has a Brewster-cut dispersive output surface for separating the p-polarized fundamental and third-harmonic beams without introducing losses into the beams. The output...