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7633977 Multispectral laser with improved time division multiplexing  
A laser provides a cavity with complementary wavelength-dependent delay elements to provide the same optical length but time-staggered light paths for different colors. This provides the ability to...
7620080 Laser pulse conditioning  
A light pulse conditioning apparatus has at least first and second curved reflective surfaces that share a common focus and a light-redirecting element disposed between the first and second curved...
7616669 High energy pulse suppression method  
A laser processes a workpiece with laser pulses delivered at random time intervals and at substantially constant energy levels by characterizing the laser cavity discharge behavior and utilizing...
7613214 Multi-wavelength mode locked laser  
A mode-locked laser employs a light-wavelength-dependent, path-length adjuster to provide different path-lengths for multiple light frequencies and dual modulation frequencies selecting multiple...
7609746 Light source device, image display device, projector, illumination device, and monitor device  
A light source device generates irradiation light that is irradiated onto a predetermined face, the light source device including: a laser light source that emits laser light; a diffractive optical...
7596156 Laser  
A method of stabilising a laser in order to maintain the laser in SLM operation is disclosed. The resonator cavity of the laser is modulated by a modulation signal applied to a piezo-electric...
7593445 Semiconductor optical device and optical transmission module  
A semiconductor optical device has a semiconductor laser portion and a modulator portion which have different mesa structures. The mesa structure of the semiconductor laser portion is a ridge...
7583710 Laser and environmental monitoring system  
A laser and monitoring system is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the system includes a laser, pulse shaper and detection device. A further aspect of the present invention...
7580183 Light generator, optical amplifier, and optical communication system  
In an optical amplifier according to the present invention, a change signal from a change signal source is fed into a light source or a drive circuit. The wavelength of light outputted from the...
7570845 Deployment of electro-optic amplitude varying elements (AVEs) and electro-optic multi-functional elements (MFEs) in photonic integrated circuits (PICs)  
Electro-optic amplitude varying elements (AVEs) or electro-optic multi-function elements (MFEs) are integrated into signal channels of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) or at the output of such...
7570680 Laser diode driver with multiple modulation current source  
The present invention is to provide an LD-driver that enables to adjust the waveform of the driving current to the LD even the driver is constituted with a current controlled device such as bipolar...
7567596 Control system and apparatus for use with ultra-fast laser  
A control system and apparatus for use with an ultra-fast laser is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the apparatus includes a laser, pulse shaper, detection device and control...
7560716 Free electron oscillator  
A beam of charged particles (e.g., an electron beam) from a charged particle source can be selectively applied to a pair of electrodes. For example, the charged particles can be electrons that are...
7545838 Incoherent combination of laser beams  
A method of combining beams from a plurality of laser resonators includes frequency modulating the output of each of the lasers with one or more of the lasers frequency modulated out-of-phase with...
7542503 Distributed feedback laser with improved optical field uniformity and mode stability  
A directly modulated distributed feedback (DFB) laser with improved optical field uniformity and mode stability may include a laser cavity and a distributed reflector and/or external reflectors....
7529280 Tunable laser apparatus and methods  
A tunable laser has a first optical element spaced apart from a second optical element to form a laser cavity of fixed length there between. An optical gain medium is in at least part of the laser...
7519246 Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips  
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other...
7515624 Semiconductor laser, semiconductor laser driver and method of driving semiconductor laser reducing feedback-induced noise by modulated optical output  
A semiconductor laser device has an active layer which is divided into two regions in the direction of a resonator, i.e., a light-amplifying region and a saturable absorber region. The...
7512295 Transmitter photonic integrated circuits (TXPICS) with directly modulated lasers and wavelength selective combiners  
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other...
7508852 Passive mode-locked semiconductor laser diode, and optical clock signal extracting device  
To provide an optical clock signal extracting device with a simple configuration, by which an optical clock signal may be extracted without depending on the polarization direction of an input...
7508850 Apparatus for modifying CO2 slab laser pulses  
The quality of pulses output from laser systems such as super-pulsed CO 2 slab lasers can be improved using half-wavelength electro-optic modulators (EOMs), in combination with thin film...
7505488 Synthetic aperture ladar with chirped modelocked waveform  
The present invention uses an intra-cavity modulation approach to modulate a laser transmitter at bandwidths greater than a few gigahertz (GHz) in a non-ambiguous waveform by chirping the laser and...
7502391 Eye safe high power fibre laser  
Apparatus for providing optical radiation includes a pump source and at least one first amplifying waveguide. The first amplifying waveguide emits optical radiation in excess of 1400 nm when pumped...
7502394 System and method for modulating a semiconductor laser  
Both a system and method are provided for modulating the intensity of an output beam generated by semiconductor laser. The exemplary system includes a source of pulsating current connected to the...
7502567 Electroabsorption-modulated Fabry-Perot laser and methods of making the same  
Electroabsorption-modulated Fabry-Perot lasers and methods of making the same are described. In one aspect, a light source includes a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser that is operable to generate multimode...
7492795 Ultralow noise mode-locked laser and RF sinewave source  
Systems, devices and methods of generating both a precision electrical timing signal as well as a precision optical timing signal. A novel, modified opto-electronic loop oscillator is used to drive...
7489838 Optical transmitter  
An optical transmitter comprises an array of modulated sources having different operating wavelengths approximating a standardized wavelength grid and providing signal outputs of different...
7489715 Optimization of mode selection in a laser resonator  
The so-called single-longitudinal mode of operation of a tunable laser beam source requires active control of the band-pass filters mounted in the laser resonator. As a rule, this entails one, or a...
7486707 Optical delay module for lenghtening the propagation path of a light beam and pulse multiplication or elongation module  
The invention relates to an optical delay module for lengthening the propagation path of a light beam comprises a first spherical mirror and a second spherical mirror, the first spherical mirror...
7477807 Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) semiconductor chip  
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other...
7460571 Laser control apparatus and control method thereof  
A laser control apparatus and control method thereof includes multiple laser elements, a photodetector for monitoring optical outputs of the laser elements, a modulation. circuit for modulating...
7457329 Method and system for a high power low-coherence pulsed light source  
A high power pulsed optical source includes a multi-port optical circulator and a seed source coupled to a first port of the multi-port optical circulator. The seed source is adapted to provide...
7450618 Laser system using ultrashort laser pulses  
A laser system using ultrashort laser pulses is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the system includes a laser, pulse shaper and detection device. A further aspect of the present...
7447246 Q-modulated semiconductor laser  
A Q-modulated semiconductor laser comprises an optical gain section and an electro-absorptive modulator section, separated by a vertically etched air gap acting as a partially reflecting mirror....
7443893 Method and system for tunable pulsed laser source  
A tunable pulsed laser source comprising a seed source adapted to generate a seed signal and an optical circulator. The optical circulator includes a first port coupled to the seed source, a second...
7436871 Method and device for performing wavelength modulation with Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) laser  
The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing phase modulated current to a semiconductor laser to control beam wavelength. A first current is received into a gain portion...
7436867 Hermetically sealed external cavity laser system and method  
A laser apparatus in a hermetically sealed container and methods for hermetically sealing the laser. The laser apparatus comprising an external cavity laser and a modulator in a single hermetically...
7433375 Laser trim and compensation methodology for passively aligning optical transmitter  
A method embodiment of the invention includes a scheme for trimming and compensation of a laser emitter in a fiber optic link. A laser emitter is provided. Also a reference optical power value is...
7430229 Opto-electronic device comprising an integrated laser and an integrated modulator and associated method of production  
The field of the invention is that of integrated optical emission devices comprising a laser emission section and a section for modulating the optical power emitted by the laser, also known as ILM...
7428253 Method and system for a pulsed laser source emitting shaped optical waveforms  
A tunable pulsed laser source includes a seed source adapted to generate a seed signal and an optical circulator having a first port coupled to the seed source, a second port, and a third port. The...
7425706 Gamma-ray laser; induced gamma emission system and method  
A method for producing stimulated emission of gamma radiation comprising: 1] providing at least first and second gamma-radiation sources, both sources being in recoil-free first-excited...
7418015 System and method for control of optical transmitter  
A system and method for controlling an optical transmitter. Proximate to startup of the optical transmitter, the laser bias to the optical transmitter is increased from a minimum to a setpoint...
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...
7391797 Integrated circuit for controlling a laser diode  
The invention relates to an integrated circuit for controlling a laser diode, comprising a signal input for receiving a data signal; a signal output for connection to the laser diode; a modulator...
7379486 Technique for optically pumping alkali-metal atoms using CPT resonances  
Systems and methods for optically pumping alkali-metal atoms using Coherence Population Trapping (CPT) resonances are disclosed. An illustrative push-pull optical pumping system for inducing CPT...
7376161 Modulation light source, image display apparatus including the same, and method of driving modulation light source  
A modulation light source capable of maintaining thermal stability of a gain part is provided. A modulation light source includes a DBR laser having a DBR part, a phase part and a gain part, a...
7372879 Wavelength locker using modulator current and photodetector  
The wavelength of light emitted by a laser and modulated by a frequency response modulator is determined from the power of the emitted light and the current drawn by the modulator. From the...
7345803 Optical modulator and optical modulating method  
In an optical modulation device ( 10 ) having an electrical/optical interaction region ( 11 ), an electrical signal line ( 3 ) is connected to an electrical signal input terminal ( 2 a ), another...
7336686 Laser display apparatus  
Provided is a laser display apparatus in which speckle can be suppressed. The laser display apparatus includes: a laser comprising a first mirror and a second mirror that are separated by a cavity...
7324761 Single sideband optical transmitter  
Described are an optical transmitter and a method for generating a single sideband optical signal. The method includes generating a data signal at a first power level and at a second power level...