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5420876 Gadolinium vanadate laser  
An intracavity frequency-doubled solid-state laser uses a Nd:GdVO 4 laser gain chip to generate a beam of visible laser light which may have wavelengths substantially in the green portion of the...
5418810 Laser light beam generating apparatus using an electromagnetic actuator for reflector positioning  
A laser light beam generating apparatus includes at least one light beam source, first and second reflectors, a non-linear optical crystal element and an actuator. The light beam source emits a...
5418802 Frequency tunable waveguide extended cavity laser  
A frequency tunable waveguide extended cavity laser formed with a laser diode, a channel waveguide comprising an electro-optic material, a frequency tunable Bragg grating reflector formed in or on...
5412676 Method and apparatus for the determination of the relative frequency offset between an input optical signal and a resonance frequency of an optical cavity  
A method and apparatus for stabilizing the relative frequency offset between a laser and a resonant optical cavity is described. Detected spatial mode patterns excited in a coupled nearly confocal...
5412674 Compact rapidly modulatable diode-pumped visible laser  
An apparatus for producing rapidly modulated coherent optical emission is described in which a doubly resonant cavity produces amplitude modulated sum frequency generation. The configuration of the...
5410561 Optical wavelength converter for obtaining wavelength conversion efficiency  
A wavelength converter having the light source formed of the semiconductor laser 1 and the nonlinear optical element 2, wherein, the oscillation light therefrom is incident to the nonlinear optical...
5408481 Intracavity sum frequency generation using a tunable laser containing an active mirror  
A means for intracavity sum frequency generation is described in which a er operates simultaneously, cw, at two wavelengths where the net gain at one wavelength is substantially lower than that at...
5408110 Second-harmonic generation in semiconductor heterostructures  
Quasi-phase matched (QPM) second-harmonic (SH) generation in the reflection geometry is described. The SH intensity can be strongly enhanced by spatially modulating the optical properties of the...
5406408 Intracavity-doubled tunable optical parametric oscillator  
A Ti:sapphire-pumped intracavity-doubled optical parametric oscillator generates up to 240 mW of sub100 femtosecond pulses tunable in the visible. The OPO consists of a 1.5 mm thick KTP crystal...
5406575 Semiconductor heterostructure laser  
The semiconductor heterostructure laser includes a semiconductor substrate, a multilayered light emitting region and an active nonlinear waveguide. The multilayered light emitting region serves as...
5402407 Optical pickup apparatus and method for adjusting optical axis thereof  
A method for the optical axis of an optical pickup apparatus includes the step of adjusting the optical axis of a beam expander for enlarging the diameter of a light beam outgoing from a laser...
5402437 Microchip laser  
A gain medium is disposed between two mirrors to form a resonant cavity. The cavity length is selected so that the gain bandwidth of the gain medium is less than or substantially equal to the...
5394411 Method for producing high intensity optical through x-ray waveguide and applications  
Optical guiding of intense laser pulses over a distance of more than one Rayleigh length in a plasma is discussed herein using a multi-pulse technique. The first pulse or pulse sequence prepares a...
5394414 Laser system and method having a nonlinear crystal resonator  
A laser system uses a nonlinear crystal ring resonator to produce Type II nonlinear second harmonic generated light. The reflective surfaces of the resonator are oriented to form two closed beam...
5394413 Passively Q-switched picosecond microlaser  
An apparatus and method for a passively Q-switched microlaser for producing high-peak-power pulses of light of extremely short duration are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a gain medium and...
5390204 Intracavity modulated pulsed laser with a variably controllable modulation frequency  
An intracavity modulated pulsed laser comprising an amplification medium, a pulsed pumping source, a beam modulator, and two mirrors, one totally reflective and one partially reflective for...
5390201 Self-frequency-doubler laser element  
A self-frequency-doubler laser element having a three-dimensional optical waveguide includes a first transparent insulating substrate having both a DFB grating and a grating reflector formed on one...
5390210 Semiconductor laser that generates second harmonic light with attached nonlinear crystal  
A semiconductor laser with a nonlinear crystal that generates second harmonic light at a frequency which is twice the fundamental frequency of the laser. The laser is configured in a...
5390211 Optical parametric oscillator with unstable resonator  
A high powered OPO system which produces a substantially collimated, low divergence output beam is based on the use of an unstable resonator. An optical parametric gain medium, such as beta-barium...
5388114 Miniaturized self-Q-switched frequency-doubled laser  
A diode-pumped monolithic laser is fabricated from a self-doubling host material co-doped with two ionic species, where one ionic dopant converts pump radiation to continuous radiation at a...
5387998 Shorter wavelength light generating apparatus in which coherent light is converted into shorter wavelength light  
A shorter wavelength light generating apparatus consists of a semiconductor laser for initially radiating various modes of coherent light including a required mode of coherent light, a reflection...
5388113 Laser generating apparatus  
A sum frequency conversion efficiency can be improved and operation can be stabilized. A laser generating apparatus comprises a nonlinear optical element (3) for generating a sum frequency light...
5384803 Laser wave mixing and harmonic generation of laser beams  
Producing high efficiency laser wave mixing and laser harmonic generation laser beams by reconstruction of fundamental and second harmonic laser beams from a frequency doubling crystal by use of a...
5384796 Second harmonic generating method and apparatus thereof  
A method and apparatus for second harmonic generation of laser light includes a non-linear birefringent crystalline element and a dynamic laser rod which has two transmission faces and an optical...
5384797 Monolithic multi-wavelength laser diode array  
A monolithic multi-wavelength laser diode array having a composite active region of at least two dissimilar quantum well layers that are partially mixed in at least one of their constituent atomic...
5383209 Second harmonic generator  
A second harmonic generator (SHG) for generating second harmonics from a non-linear bifringent crystalline material of a resonator utilizes a brewster plate within the laser cavity instead of a...
5381430 Optical wavelength converting apparatus  
An optical wavelength converting apparatus comprises an optical wavelength converting device, which is constituted of a crystal of a nonlinear optical material and converts a wavelength of an...
5381428 Tunable ytterbium-doped solid state laser  
A tunable ytterbium-doped solid-state laser has a laser cavity defined a r of mirrors, a laser medium positioned in this cavity, means for pumping the laser medium, and means for tuning the output...
5377212 Solid-state laser device including uniaxial laser crystal emitting linearly polarized fundamental wave and nonlinear optical crystal emitting linearly polarized harmonic wave  
A short-wavelength laser having a stable output and an optical information processing system capable of high-density recording are disclosed. A solid-state laser is used as a light source, and a...
5373526 Apparatus and method for optical energy amplification using two-beam coupling  
A diffraction limited working beam at a given frequency is amplified without degrading its diffraction limited quality by diverting a minor portion of the beam as a probe beam, and amplifying the...
5363390 Semiconductor laser that generates second harmonic light by means of a nonlinear crystal in the laser cavity  
A surface-emitting laser with an integral nonlinear crystal. The laser generates light at a fundamental frequency. The nonlinear crystal converts the light into light at twice the fundamental...
5361268 Switchable two-wavelength frequency-converting laser system and power control therefor  
A laser system and power control have a polarization state changer that produces in response to an incident beam with selected polarization state at a first wavelength λ 1 a beam at λ 1 with a...
5361275 Apparatus for removing material from a target  
In order to improve an apparatus for removing material from a target, comprising a high-power laser generating laser pulses with a pulse duration in the picosecond range and comprising a resonator,...
5357533 Frequency doubler and laser source  
The wavelength tolerance of a frequency doubler is enhanced so as to perform stable operation. Further, with the use of this frequency doubler, a laser source can directly modulate a laser. A...
5351250 Optical beam steering device  
An optical beam steering device (10) incorporates a laser (12), three Brillouin shifters (22 to 26, 44 to 48, 54 to 58), a four wave mixing cell (40) and a low power beam steering device (62). The...
5345457 Dual wavelength laser system with intracavity sum frequency mixing  
A dual-wavelength laser system with intracavity, sum-frequency mixing including a bifurcated resonant cavity having a first arm, a second arm and a common arm; a first laser element located in the...
5345456 Spatially addressable surface emission sum frequency device  
An active surface-emitting harmonic generator based on a multilayer Al x Ga 1 -x As non linear waveguide integrated monlithically with a tunable InGaAs single quantum well laser is provided....
5343484 SHG (second-harmonic generation) device  
An SHG device wherein a channel is formed on a part of a waveguide layer; and the thickness of the waveguide layer is set so that the refractive index of the channel for a fundamental is greater...
5341236 Nonlinear optical wavelength converters with feedback  
An optical frequency conversion apparatus includes at least one resonator (10) having an optical path defined by a plurality of mirrors (M1, M2). A nonlinear conversion medium (10a) is disposed...
5339324 Laser beam generator including automatic resonator length control  
A laser beam generator for making wavelength conversion automatically controls the length of an external resonator of a laser source to perform wavelength conversion at a high efficiency by...
5333142 Technique for intracavity sum frequency generation  
A means for intracavity sum frequency generation is described in which a laser operates simultaneously at two wavelengths. The laser resonator further contains a sum frequency generating nonlinear...
5331650 Light source device and optical pickup using light source device  
An SHG element has a semiconductor laser, and a laser resonator for exciting an oscillation line having a predetermined wavelength by making a light beam emitted from the semiconductor laser...
5325380 Dual wavelength laser emitter  
A dual-wavelength laser emitter is provided for emitting a dual-wavelength laser beam. The laser emitter includes a first laser beam source for generating a first laser beam having a first...
5321709 Pulsed intracavity nonlinear optical frequency converter  
A method for efficiently controlling sum frequency mixing and second harmonic generation within Q-switched laser oscillators. A nonlinear crystal is placed at either the intersection point of two...
5317447 High-power, compact, diode-pumped, tunable laser  
A high-power semiconductor diode laser or array of semiconductor diode lasers (14) optically end-pumps a compact, tunable, solid-state laser (28) with a pumping beam (74) well-matched to the...
5307359 Monolithic semi-conductor laser producing blue, green and red output wavelengths  
A monolithic multi-color laser comprising a semiconductor laser formed on a substrate for lightwave generation. Means is provided for exciting the laser and means is provided on the substrate...
5303250 Laser light generating apparatus  
A laser light generating apparatus comprises a light source for generating an exciting light beam, a condenser lens for converging the exciting light beam from the light source, a laser medium for...
5303247 Optical harmonic generating device for generating harmonic wave from fundamental wave and shorter wavelength laser generating apparatus in which fundamental wave of laser is converted to harmonic wave with the device  
An optical harmonic generating device is provided with reverse polarization layers which are made of non-linear optical crystal polarized in a lower direction and are periodically arranged at...
5301059 Short-wavelength light generating apparatus  
A short-wavelength light generating apparatus comprising a pumping semiconductor laser and an intra-cavity solid state laser, the intra-cavity solid state laser is excited in response to a laser...
5297156 Method and apparatus for dual resonant laser upconversion  
A laser frequency conversion device employs a dual resonant optical cavity in which closed optical paths exist for both the pump beam and the generated beam. The optical cavity is designed so that...