Unitary solid-state laser

Patent · Tue Mar 29 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5020739

Morris, R C; Schroeder, N G; Kuper, J W; Shand, M I; Barrett, J J

A unitary laser is described comprising: (a) a transparent, thermally-conductive solid housing; (b) a laser medium that has two opposite ends and is embedded in a first cavity in the housing; (c) a pump lamp for exciting the laser medium that is embedded in a second cavity in the housing; (d) a filter coating on the pump lamp and extending around the pump lamp for eliminating unwanted components of the lamp output which do not efficiently excite the laser medium by reflecting back into the pump lamp components of the lamp output that do not efficiently excite the laser medium; and (e) reflectors adjacent to the opposite ends of the laser medium that define an optical resonant cavity and support coherent radiation emitted by the laser medium.

• Assignee: Allied Corp., Morris Township, Morris County, NJ
• Patent Number(s): US 4734913
• OSTI ID: 5020739
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
CAVITY RESONATORS
DESIGN
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
FILTERS
FLUORESCENT LAMPS
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
LASER CAVITIES
LASER MATERIALS
LASERS
LIGHT BULBS
MATERIALS
OPACITY
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OPTICAL PUMPING
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PUMPING
PUMPS
REFLECTION
RESONATORS
SOLID STATE LASERS
THERMAL CONDUCTION
THERMODYNAMICS