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20080298406 | COMPACT EXTERNAL CAVITY MID-IR OPTICAL LASERS - Highly compact quantum well based laser systems with external cavity configurations are tightly integrated in a very small mounting system having high thermal and vibrational stability. The mounting systems may include adjustability and alignment features specifically designed to account for the particular nature of the micro components used. The laser systems may provide for wavelength selection, including dynamic wavelength selection. The laser systems may also provide special output couplers. | 12-04-2008 |
20090046753 | Diode lasers type of devices with good coupling between field distribution and gain - Diode lasers type of devices with good coupling between field distribution and gain are disclosed. A single element has a flat field distribution that couples with the uniform current injection in a contact region. A multi element array having almost flat field distribution in each element and almost equal amplitude for the field intensity in all elements is provided. Injection by multiple contacts couples well with the overall field distribution. Also, the lasers are stable against filament formation and mode switching. | 02-19-2009 |
20090122821 | Solid state laser with beam path conditioning - A solid state laser system having at least one gas injector is disclosed. The gas injector may be configured to so as cause gas flow in a path of the laser beam in order to mitigate distortion of the laser beam due to optical path difference. Each gas injector may be configured so as to cause gas flow proximate at least one optical surface of a solid state gain element of the laser beam system. In this manner gain uniformity may be enhanced so as to facilitate use of the laser system in a variety of military and commercial applications. | 05-14-2009 |
20100054291 | ORGANIC LASER DEVICE - To provide a small and lightweight organic laser device which can be manufactured in a reproductive manner and from which laser light with a desired wavelength can be obtained. A first substrate provided with a light-emitting element having a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes and a second substrate provided with a laser medium including a laser dye face each other and one of the pair of electrodes, which is placed between the light-emitting layer and the laser medium, has a light transmitting property. With such a structure, a laser device with which a laser medium and a light source are integrated can be provided. | 03-04-2010 |
20100189145 | LASER WITH GAIN MEDIUM SUPPRESSING HIGHER ORDER MODES TO PROVIDE LASING OUTPUT WITH HIGH BEAM QUALITY - High-power, diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) pulsed lasers are preferred for applications such as micromachining, via drilling of integrated circuits, and ultraviolet (UV) conversion. Nd:YVO | 07-29-2010 |
20100316073 | OPTICALLY PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER WITH CO-DOPED GAIN MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a solid-state laser comprising a gain medium ( | 12-16-2010 |
20110032963 | Eu-containing inorganic compound, luminescent composition and luminescent body containing the same, solid laser device, and light emitting device - An Eu-containing inorganic compound has a polycrystal structure, in which Eu has been doped into a matrix garnet type compound and has formed a solid solution in the matrix garnet type compound. A doping concentration of Eu occupying at an eight-coordination site of the garnet structure falls within the range of more than 0.5 mol % to 50.0 mol %, inclusive. The doping concentration of Eu occupying at the eight-coordination site of the garnet structure should preferably fall within the range of 5.0 mol % to 30.0 mol %. | 02-10-2011 |
20110274129 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CYLINDRICAL OPTICAL COMPONENT OF QUARTZ GLASS AND OPTICALLY ACTIVE COMPONENT OBTAINED BY SAID METHOD - Cylindrical optical components of quartz glass are known, which have an inner zone made of an inner zone glass, which extends in the direction of the longitudinal axis and is surrounded by a jacket zone made of a jacket zone glass, the average pt wall thickness thereof varying at least over a part of its length in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the component. The aim of the invention is to provide a method that allows a simple and cost-effective production of such an optical component from quartz glass. A method is proposed according to the invention, comprising the following method steps: (a) providing a first parison made of an inner zone glass, which has a first contact surface on the end face, said contact surface having a conical external contour; (b) providing a second parison from the jacket zone glass; (c) embedding the contact surface with a conical external contour into the jacket zone glass and welding the contact surface to the jacket zone glass, thereby forming a composite parison which has a cone-shaped inner zone area of inner zone glass in a contact area, said inner zone area being surrounded by a jacket zone having the shape of an inner cone; and (d) elongation of the composite parison to form the optical component or a preproduct of the component. | 11-10-2011 |
20120014402 | LASER MODULE - A laser module LM is provided with a quantum cascade laser | 01-19-2012 |
20120063478 | SURFACE PLASMON BAND-EDGE LASER - Provided is a surface plasmon band-edge laser including a gain media having quantum dots configured to enable laser oscillation using surface plasmon resonance. The gain media has a periodic structure and is formed on a metal surface. | 03-15-2012 |
20120269218 | STABILIZATION OF GREEN BODIES VIA SACRIFICIAL GELLING AGENT DURING ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION - In one embodiment, a method for electrophoretic deposition of a three-dimensionally patterned green body includes suspending a first material in a gelling agent above a patterned electrode of an electrophoretic deposition (EPD) chamber, and gelling the suspension while applying a first electric field to the suspension to cause desired patterning of the first material in a resulting gelation. In another embodiment, a ceramic, metal, or cermet includes a plurality of layers, wherein each layer includes a gradient in composition, microstructure, and/or density in an x-y plane oriented parallel to a plane of deposition of the plurality of layers along a predetermined distance in a z-direction perpendicular to the plane of deposition. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275479 | Method and System For Modulation Of Gain Suppression In High Average Power Laser Systems - A high average power laser system with modulated gain suppression includes an input aperture associated with a first laser beam extraction path and an output aperture associated with the first laser beam extraction path. The system also includes a pinhole creation laser having an optical output directed along a pinhole creation path and an absorbing material positioned along both the first laser beam extraction path and the pinhole creation path. The system further includes a mechanism operable to translate the absorbing material in a direction crossing the first laser beam extraction laser path and a controller operable to modulate the second laser beam. | 11-01-2012 |
20130100976 | CORROSION-RESISTANT MULTILAYER STRUCTURES WITH IMPROVED REFLECTIVITY - In one general embodiment, a thin film structure includes a substrate; a first corrosion barrier layer above the substrate; a reflective layer above the first corrosion barrier layer, wherein the reflective layer comprises at least one repeating set of sub-layers, wherein one of the sub-layers of each set of sub-layers being of a corrodible material; and a second corrosion barrier layer above the reflective layer. In another general embodiment, a system includes an optical element having a thin film structure as recited above; and an image capture or spectrometer device. In a further general embodiment, a laser according to one embodiment includes a light source and the thin film structure as recited above. | 04-25-2013 |
20130128908 | DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE OPTO-MECHANICALLY OPTIMIZED GREEN LASER - A unique physical design of 532 nm Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) laser elements to achieve independent crystal phasing (rotation), spacing and output coupler (OC) alignment in a robust small package is provided. | 05-23-2013 |
20140079084 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD EMPLOYING A DUAL HEAD LASER - A system, apparatus and method employing a laser with a split-head, V-assembly gain material configuration. Additionally, the present invention is directed to techniques to better dissipate or remove unwanted energies in laser operations. The present invention is also directed to techniques for better collimated laser beams, with single spatial mode quality (TEM00), with improved efficiency, in extreme environments, such as in outer space. | 03-20-2014 |