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7602821 Device for generating laser radiation in the infrared  
The invention is in the field of laser radiation generation in bands II and III, and relates to a device for generating laser radiation in the infrared having means for modifying the...
7590161 Electron beam pumped semiconductor laser  
Electron-beam-pumped semiconductor ultra-violet optical sources (ESUVOSs) are disclosed that use ballistic electron pumped wide bandgap semiconductor materials. The sources may produce incoherent...
7590155 Hybrid high power laser to achieve high repetition rate and high pulse energy  
A fiber laser cavity that provides a new pulse shaping and spectral shaping technique is disclosed in this invention to achieve the purpose of resolving the difficulties arising from the issues...
7542501 Laser system comprising a number of longitudinally pumped laser-active solid bodies  
The aim of the invention is to obtain a laser system with the highest possible power that operates as stably as possible. This object is achieved in the case of a laser system by the laser...
7515626 Light source capable of lasing that is wavelength locked by an injected light signal  
Various methods, systems, and apparatuses are described in which a light source ( 101 ) capable of lasing is wavelength locked by an injected light signal. The light source ( 101 ) capable of...
7486714 Pump laser integrated vertical external cavity surface emitting laser  
Provided is a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) in which a pump laser is integrated with the rest of the VECSEL as a single body. The VECSEL includes: a first active layer...
7428257 Apparatus for optical pumping of a laser-active solid body  
An apparatus for optically pumping a laser-active solid body with pumping light coupled into the solid body through an end surface of the solid body is disclosed. The apparatus includes a...
7408971 Longitudinally pumped solid state laser and methods of making and using  
A laser apparatus for producing a laser light beam can include a gain medium; a pump light source to provide a pump light beam to the gain medium; a first reflector disposed between the first gain...
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...
7376296 Optical multiplexer  
The invention provides an optical multiplexing device comprising: a plurality of optical sources with integrated collimators ( 31 - 37 ) whose output beams are combined by mirrors ( 41 - 47 ) or...
7346091 High energy solid-state laser with offset pump and extraction geometry  
A laser system and method. The inventive laser includes an annular gain medium; a source of pump energy; and an arrangement for concentrating energy from the source on the gain medium. In a more...
7286587 Holmium doped 2.1 micron crystal laser  
A Ho:YAG crystal laser is disclosed which is doped with less than 2% holmium to reduce the lasing threshold and up-conversion, thereby increasing the operating efficiency of the laser. The laser...
7274723 Method for amplifying a solid-state laser  
Conventionally, a laser beam is amplified by making a single pass through an amplifier but the laser beam emitted from the oscillator generally has low energy, so the energy stored in the amplifier...
7203214 Off-peak optical pumping of yttrium orthovanadate  
A laser includes an Nd:YVO4 crystal end-pumped with diode-laser light having a wavelength at which the absorption coefficient for Nd:YVO4 is less than about 0.35 (35%) of the absorption coefficient...
7187703 Intracavity sum-frequency mixing laser  
Provided is a diode-pumped solid-state laser adapted for an intracavity sum-frequency mixing for generating a laser radiation of a visible wavelength range by performing a sum-frequency mixing of...
7126976 Solid state lasers and a method for their production  
The present invention relates to a solid-state laser comprising: a) a semiconductor pump laser, b) a lens integrated on the surface of said semiconductor pump laser, c) a packaging material...
7120184 Phasing surface emitting diode laser outputs into a coherent laser beam  
A system for generating a powerful laser beam includes a first laser element and at least one additional laser element having a rear laser mirror, an output mirror that is 100% reflective at normal...
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...
7046712 Laser resistant to internal ir-induced damage  
Co-doping the gain medium of a diode-pumped infrared laser to make the laser resistant to long-term degradation from high-intensity internal infrared radiation is disclosed. Co-doping the gain...
7039087 End pumped slab laser cavity  
The End Pumped Slab Laser Cavity incorporates all optical components required for a short-pulse laser. These optical components are ‘locked’ into alignment forming an optical laser cavity for...
6999481 Method and device for reducing the pump light in a sheat-pumped fiber laser output  
A pump fiber is stripped of its cladding over the last section. This can occur by etching a coating off. The sheath is preferably etched off wedge-shaped. As a result thereof, the remaining pump...
6996144 Wavelength stabilization of tunable lasers by current modulation  
Apparatus and method for stabilizing the wavelength of a tunable laser to a target wavelength, by correspondingly adjusting the electrooptical performance of the laser's gain medium, whereby to...
6978063 Compact optical fiber amplifier module  
An optical fiber amplifier module is disclosed which comprises a signal path located between a signal input and a signal output. A WDM coupler and an amplifying gain medium are disposed along the...
6937636 Tapered laser rods as a means of minimizing the path length of trapped barrel mode rays  
By tapering the diameter of a flanged barrel laser rod over its length, the maximum trapped path length of a barrel mode can be dramatically reduced, thereby reducing the ability of the trapped...
6914928 Diode array end pumped slab laser  
A diode pumped solid state laser using a laser diode bar or a stack of bars with cylindrical lenses is used to end pump a rectangular cross section solid state laser slab. The combination of lenses...
6914915 OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER THAT CAN ATTAIN SUFFICIENT GAIN SHIFT EFFECT, SMALL NOISE PROPERTY AND HIGH OPERATION EFFICIENCY AT THE SAME TIME EVEN IN TWO-WAVELENGTH EXCITATION TM DOPANT OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER, AND OPTICAL AMPLIFIER HAVING THE SAME  
A laser amplifier includes a gain medium of a glass fiber, a first exciting light source, a second exciting light source, and another first exciting light source. The gain medium of the glass fiber...
6891876 Method and apparatus for polarization and wavelength insensitive pumping of solid state lasers  
An optical system has a diode pump source, and a gain media made of a material with an anisotropic absorption. The gain media is cut at an angle to produce substantially polarization-independent...
6862312 Quantum dot tunable external cavity laser (QD-TEC laser)  
A laser system includes a laser diode with a low dimensional nanostructure, such as quantum dots or quantum wires, for emitting light over a wide range of wavelengths. An external cavity is used to...
6833946 Optical amplification using polarization diversity pumping  
This invention describes new developments in Sagnac Raman amplifiers and cascade lasers to improve their performance. The Raman amplifier bandwidth is broadened by using a broadband pump or by...
6829408 Optical amplifier, optical transmission equipment, optical transmission system, and method thereof  
An optical transmission equipment for use in an optical transmission system, having an optical amplifier ( 10 A), comprising: a first optical doped fiber ( 1 A); a second optical doped fiber ( 1...
6778563 Q-switched laser  
A microchip laser arrangement is disclosed. The arrangement is operative to emit Q-switched laser pulses at 1.54 μm. The lasing medium of the laser arrangement is preferably comprised of...
6768751 Methods and apparatus for removing heat from a lasing medium of a solid-state laser assembly  
An apparatus for removing heat from a lasing medium of a solid-state laser assembly is provided that comprises a working fluid and at least one condensation surface defined by a housing in which at...
6761713 Medical laser unit  
The medical laser unit ( 1 ) includes at least one laser body ( 3 ) being made of laser material ( 4 ). A first type of a pump light source ( 11 ) is designed and arranged to continuously excite...
6748172 Multi-channel light source generator in a WDM optical communication system  
A multi-channel light source generator has a pumping laser source for generating a pumping laser having a predetermined wavelength, a multi-channel light source generating device for generating...
6728437 Pumping light generator and fiber Raman amplifier  
An object of the present invention is to prevent an increase of the degree of polarization of an output pumping light even if one of pumping light sources has a failure. Laser diodes ( 30 a , 30 b...
RE38489 Solid microlaser passively switched by a saturable absorber and its production process  
The invention relates to a microlaser cavity ( 10 ) having: a solid active medium ( 2 ) emitting at least in a wavelength range between 1.5 and 1.6 μm, and a saturable absorber ( 4 ) of formula...
6711185 Polarization dependent out-coupling  
An optical arrangement for direction dependent coupling out of light comprises a first and a second polarization converter each for converting the state of polarization of light received in a...
6693941 Semiconductor laser apparatus  
A semiconductor laser apparatus comprises a pumping beam source and a surface emission type of semiconductor device. The pumping beam source is constituted of a semiconductor laser device, in which...
6690507 Double-pumped raman amplifier  
A double pumped Raman amplifier is provided that increases gain over a same length of gain fiber without significantly increasing a percentage of noise. The amplifier may include a source of pump...
6687046 Optical fiber amplifier device and communications system using the optical fiber amplifier device  
The invention relates to an optical fiber amplifier device with an optical signal input and output with first piece of amplifying fiber doped with lanthanide in a double-clad structure, a second...
6661568 Diode-pumped laser amplifier  
In a diode-pumped laser amplifier the inventive object is to increase the tolerance of the amplifier arrangement relative to variations of the input parameters significantly, so that fine-tuning is...
6658037 Incoherent light-emitting device apparatus for driving vertical laser cavity  
A laser emitting apparatus includes an incoherent light-emitting device having a light-emitting layer wherein an electric field is applied across the light-emitting layer to produce light which is...
6654401 Multiple laser source, and systems for use thereof  
A chirp signal source includes first and second lasers formed on a solid-state chip or substrate. Each of the lasers has a resonator or cavity which incorporates or includes electrooptic material...
6628692 Solid-state laser device and solid-state laser amplifier provided therewith  
A laser crystal is formed on a substrate in a solid-state laser device. The laser crystal oscillates laser beam from a second end face when an excitation beam is projected to a first end face. An...
6625194 Laser beam generation apparatus  
A laser beam generation apparatus includes a solid state laser medium having first and second optically polished planes provided opposed with each other to allow a laser beam to be pumped to pass...
6597493 Nonlinear fiber amplifiers used for a 1430-1530nm low-loss window in optical fibers  
An apparatus and method are described for exploiting almost the full almost 25 TH % of bandwidth available in the low-loss window in optical fibers (from 1430 nm-1620 nm) using a parallel...
6580732 Multiple mode laser  
A laser apparatus is described having multiple modes of operation using intracavity optical switching within a laser resonator. The laser resonator has a solid state gain medium and one or more...
6532248 Diode-laser side-pumped solid-state laser device  
A diode-laser side-pumped solid-state laser device (SSLD) has a cylindrical laser rod, a cooling tube, and a cylindrical mirror member having an inner mirror surface and a plurality of openings...
6512630 Miniature laser/amplifier system  
Many longitudinally pumped miniature lasers (single-frequency Nd:YAG microchip lasers and Q-switched microchip lasers) are sufficiently short that only a small fraction of the incident pump light...
6400513 Optical beam coupling of multiple wavelengths into an output channel using spatial wavefront segmentation  
An apparatus and method for coupling an array of light beams extending predominantly in one direction into an output port. The light beams are rearranged into a desired shape which extends more...
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