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7535938 Low-noise monolithic microchip lasers capable of producing wavelengths ranging from IR to UV based on efficient and cost-effective frequency conversion  
A method for producing low-noise laser output at wavelengths ranging from IR through visible to UV in various operation modes from a monolithic microchip laser comprises schemes of (1) generating...
7534377 Borate crystals for optical frequency conversion  
Novel nonlinear optical materials are described having the general formula M x M′ y Sc z (BO 3 ) 4 where M and M′are metals, typically rare earth metals, and the sum of x, y, and z is about...
7529278 Nonlinear polarization pulse shaping model locked fiber laser at one micron with photonic crystal (PC), photonic bandgap (PBG), or higher order mode (HOM) fiber  
A fiber laser cavity that includes a laser gain medium for receiving an optical input projection from a laser pump, wherein the laser cavity further includes a normal dispersion fiber segment with...
7529281 Light source with precisely controlled wavelength-converted average power  
Control of average wavelength-converted power and/or wavelength converted pulse energy is described. One or more seed pulses may be generated and amplified with an optical amplifier to produce one...
7526005 Highly efficient second harmonic generation (SHG) vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) system  
A Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VECSEL) system is provided. The VECSEL system includes a laser device including an active layer in which laser light is generated by pumping and a...
7518784 Apparatus and method of producing quantum-entangled, up-converted light beams  
A single cavity may be used to produce up-converted, quantum-entangled beams relying on the common field of the pumping energy stimulating to up-converting material to produce the quantum...
7515617 Photonic device having higher order harmonic emissions  
A photonic device is disclosed which has higher order harmonic emissions. A pump source is adapted to emit a laser beam at a source frequency and to have a power output of less than approximately...
7511879 Light source device and projector  
A light source device includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting sections, a plurality of wavelength conversion elements each having a periodic polarization inversion structure,...
7512160 Control method of distributed Bragg reflection semiconductor laser, and image projecting apparatus  
A DBR semiconductor laser is controlled in an image projecting apparatus, which includes the DBR laser having a phase and DBR region, a light wavelength converting device for converting...
7511880 Semiconductor light source module  
The present invention provides a semiconductor light source module including: a semiconductor light source for emitting a light flux with a predefined wavelength; a SHG element for converting an...
7505492 Alignment of lasing wavelength with wavelength conversion peak using modulated wavelength control signal  
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a programmable light source comprises one or more semiconductor lasers, a wavelength conversion device, and a laser controller. The controller...
7504053 Method and structure for nonlinear optics  
A nonlinear optical crystal having a chemical formula of Y i La j Al k B 16 O 48 , where 2.8≦i≦3.2, 0.8≦j≦1.2, i and j sum to about four, and k is about 12 is provided. The nonlinear...
7502393 Light-emitting device having resonator and light source unit including the light-emitting device  
To provide a light-emitting device having a resonator capable of stably and efficiently taking out light. The device includes an active medium, a resonator for confining the light having a first...
7502404 Optical pumping method for gain-media with polarization sensitive absorption  
A method for optically pumping a gain-medium with partially polarized or unpolarized pump-light having a wavelength at which that gain-medium has an absorption that is dependent on the polarization...
7489437 Fiber laser red-green-blue (RGB) light source  
An RGB light source that uses an optical fiber laser to generate a near-infrared (NIR) output light beam, and a wavelength conversion system that receives the output NIR light beam and forms...
7486435 Multi-port optical parametric oscillator  
An optical parametric oscillator includes a source of coherent energetic pump optical signals and an optical resonator cavity which includes a set of optical parametric amplifying (OPA) crystals...
7486432 Method for preparing a periodically poled structure  
A method for preparing a periodically poled structure according to this aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a ferroelectric substrate and performing a poling process by...
7480321 Vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) having modulating mirror and display apparatus employing the same  
A vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) having an improved mirror that forms an external cavity to modulate an emitted laser beam and display apparatus employing the same are...
7477666 All fiber based short pulse amplification at one micron  
A fiber laser cavity that includes a laser gain medium for receiving an optical input projection from a laser pump. The fiber laser cavity further includes a positive dispersion fiber segment and a...
7477664 Nonlinear polarization pulse shaping mode locked fiber laser  
A fiber laser cavity that includes a laser gain medium for receiving an optical input projection from a laser pump. The fiber laser cavity further includes a positive dispersion fiber segment and a...
7477665 Electronically tuned self-starting polarization shaping mode locked fiber laser  
A fiber laser cavity that includes a laser gain medium for receiving an optical input projection from a laser pump. The fiber laser cavity further includes a positive dispersion fiber segment and a...
7474457 Generation of radiation with stabilized frequency  
Method and device for the generation of a comb of stabilized frequency lines and/or a train of ultrashort laser pulses for stabilization of the position of the carrier wave with respect to the...
7474678 Optically pumped semiconductor laser  
An optically pumped semiconductor laser and an optical pumping method are disclosed. The optically pumped semiconductor laser includes an output mirror and a reflective mirror for forming a...
7474458 Method for preparing a poled structure with inhibition blocks  
A method for preparing a poled structure comprises the steps of forming a ferroelectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, performing a doping process to form at least one...
7471707 Low noise, intra-cavity frequency-doubling micro chip laser with wide temperature range  
A low-noise micro-chip laser includes a diode pump, a gain medium, a nonlinear crystal, and a birefringent material. The gain medium can receive the energy from the diode pump and generate a laser...
7471705 Ultraviolet laser system and method having wavelength in the 200-nm range  
An apparatus and method applicable for generating ultraviolet laser light having a wavelength in the 200-nm range and/or 250-nm range; in some embodiments, using a single fiber laser pump source...
7466728 Method for laterally-coupling frequency-converted laser radiation out of a resonator  
In traveling-wave ring-resonator an optically nonlinear crystal for converting visible radiation to ultraviolet (UV) radiation has an input face and two output faces. The visible light propagates...
7463664 Coherent light source and optical device  
Light emitted from a wide stripe semiconductor laser with increased output and efficiency is passed through a mode converter and a wavelength selecting filter, then fed back to the active layer of...
7463657 Intracavity frequency-tripled CW laser  
A method of intracavity frequency conversion in a CW laser includes causing fundamental radiation to circulate in a laser resonator. The fundamental radiation makes a first pass through an...
7463658 Laser and method for generating pulsed laser radiation  
A laser for generating pulsed laser radiation. An element is arranged in the resonator to generate laser radiation having the first wavelength by frequency conversion of the primary radiation. The...
7460569 Solid state UV laser  
An apparatus ( 10 a ) for scanning a light beam ( 16 ) through a crystal arrangement ( 22 ) that has a first frame member ( 28 ), a first support member ( 24 ) to support a first optical element (...
7457031 Optical configurations for wavelength-converted laser sources  
An optical package is provided comprising a semiconductor laser, a wavelength conversion device, a lens assembly, and one or more adjustable optical components. The lens assembly and the adjustable...
7457030 Wavelength conversion device  
The energy conversion efficiency from light that is to be converted to converted light of a wavelength conversion device is adjusted so as always to be kept stably at a maximum. The wavelength...
7457330 Low speckle noise monolithic microchip RGB lasers  
A method for reducing speckle noise of a monolithic microchip laser with intracavity beam combining and sum frequency mixing is based on time averaging of uncorrelated speckle patterns generated...
7447244 Wavelength conversion laser device  
A wavelength conversion laser device includes a laser light source for emitting a first wavelength light, a nonlinear optical crystal for converting the first wavelength light into a second...
7446930 Method of inverting polarization by controlling defect density or degree of order of lattice points  
A problem to be solved is to provide a method of forming domain inverted regions of short period in a ferroelectric single crystal in a controllable time period of application of voltage and an...
7447245 Optically pumped semiconductor laser pumped optical parametric oscillator  
An optically pumped semiconductor pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPS-pumped OPO) includes an OPS laser resonator and an OPO resonator A portion the OPS laser resonator axis and the OPO...
7447243 Laser emitting module, window cap, laser pointer, and light emitting module  
A laser emitting module, a window cap thereof, a laser pointer using the same and a light emitting module are provided. A light emitted from a laser diode excites a solid-state laser medium so as...
7443892 Wavelength conversion laser apparatus  
In a wavelength conversion laser device, a laser light source emits first wavelength light. A non-linear optical crystal converts the first wavelength light into second wavelength light. A...
7440477 Solid-state laser generator  
Two laser media are disposed at equal intervals between a first flat mirror, which is a resonator mirror comprising a resonator, and a second flat mirror for separating laser light that transmits...
7433374 Frequency-doubled edge-emitting semiconductor lasers  
A frequency-doubled, edge-emitting semiconductor laser includes a separate confinement heterostructure surmounted by a waveguide including a converting layer of a periodically poled, optically...
7430231 Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays pumped solid-state lasers  
Solid-state lasers pumped by incoherent or partially coherent, monochromatic light sources such as high power VCSEL arrays. Efficient and uniform injection of pumping energy into gain medium is...
7413635 Method for the fabrication of periodically poled Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate nonlinear optical components  
A process for reducing the poling field of congruent LiNbO 3 and LiTaO 3 crystal-based nonlinear optical devices and for the production of domain structures with precise reproducibility of the...
7414778 Wavelength conversion devices and fabrication methods for same  
Particular embodiments of the present invention relate generally to a method of fabricating a wavelength conversion device. According to the method, the wavelength conversion device is fabricated...
7415164 Modeling scenes in videos using spectral similarity  
A computer implemented method models a scene in a video acquired by a camera. For each pixel in each frame of the video, a time series of intensities of the pixel is acquired. A harmonic series is...
7411991 Tunable laser  
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices, and/or systems for a tunable laser are described. An apparatus includes: a tunable laser cavity including at least three mirrors, at least one filter...
7408963 Medical laser apparatus  
A medical laser apparatus suitable for medical treatment, which is capable of obtaining a plurality of visible laser beams each having a different wavelength, but which has an inexpensive...
7403549 Wavelength conversion laser and image display  
A wavelength converting laser device includes a laser diode producing laser light and including an optical resonator having a pair of facing reflectors, including a reflecting surface having a...
7403327 Wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings and light generating apparatus using said element, and wavelength conversion element having cylindrical ferroelectric single crystals and light generating apparatus using said element  
A wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings free from damage propagation and a light generating apparatus using it, and a wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings to make a...
7400659 Method and device for performing DBR laser wavelength modulation free of thermal effect  
The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing a three-level current scheme to a semiconductor laser to control beam wavelength and laser temperature. A first current is...