Direct diode pumped ti:sapphire lasers and amplifiers

Title: Direct diode pumped ti:sapphire lasers and amplifiers

Abstract

Direct diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser amplifiers use fiber-coupled laser diodes as pump beam sources. The pump beam may be polarized or non-polarized. Light at wavelengths below 527 nm may be used in cryogenic configurations. Multiple diode outputs may be polarization or spectrally combined.

Inventors:: Kirchner, Matthew S.; Backus, Sterling

Issue Date:: 2020-01-07

Research Org.:: Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc., Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1632419

Patent Number(s):: 10530120

Application Number:: 16/442,000

Assignee:: Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc. (Boulder, CO)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT

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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT
H01S3/09408 - {Pump redundancy}
H01S5/4012 - {Beam combining, e.g. by the use of fibres, gratings, polarisers, prisms}
H01S3/1625 - {titanium}
H01S3/1636 - {Al2O3
H01S3/094084 - {with pump light recycling, i.e. with reinjection of the unused pump light, e.g. by reflectors or circulators}
H01S3/0813 - {Configuration of resonator}
H01S3/1106 - {Mode locking}
H01S3/0407 - {Liquid cooling, e.g. by water}
H01S3/1028 - {by controlling the temperature}
H01S3/1022 - {by controlling the optical pumping}
H01S3/09415 - {the pumping beam being parallel to the lasing mode of the pumped medium, e.g. end-pumping}
H01S3/235 - {Regenerative amplifiers}
H01S3/08072 - {Thermal lensing or thermally induced birefringence
H01S3/025 - {of solid state lasers, e.g. housings or mountings}
H01S5/32341 - {blue laser based on GaN or GaP}
H01S3/10061 - {Polarization control}
H01S3/2308 - {Amplifier arrangements, e.g. MOPA}
H01S3/042 - for solid state lasers {
H01S5/4025 - {Array arrangements, e.g. constituted by discrete laser diodes or laser bar
H01S3/0941 - of a laser diode

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DOE Contract Number:: SC0009707

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 06/14/2019

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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  abstractNote = {Direct diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser amplifiers use fiber-coupled laser diodes as pump beam sources. The pump beam may be polarized or non-polarized. Light at wavelengths below 527 nm may be used in cryogenic configurations. Multiple diode outputs may be polarization or spectrally combined.},

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Nighan, Jr., William L.; Keirstead, Mark S.
US Patent Document 5,412,683
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