Fast wavelength tuning techniques for external cavity lasers
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, an optical beam steering component configured to steer the light beam from the first path to a second path at an angle to the first path, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path, wherein the angle determines an external cavity length. Included is an apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, a beam steering component configured to redirect the light beam to a second path at an angle to the first path, wherein the optical beam steering component is configured to change the angle at a rate of at least about one Kilohertz, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path.
- Inventors:
-
- Princeton, NJ
- Houston, TX
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Aerodyne Research Inc
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1013392
- Patent Number(s):
- 7869474
- Application Number:
- 12/349,839
- Assignee:
- William Marsh Rice University (Houston, TX)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
-
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-06ER86264
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
Citation Formats
Wysocki, Gerard, and Tittel, Frank K. Fast wavelength tuning techniques for external cavity lasers. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web.
Wysocki, Gerard, & Tittel, Frank K. Fast wavelength tuning techniques for external cavity lasers. United States.
Wysocki, Gerard, and Tittel, Frank K. Tue .
"Fast wavelength tuning techniques for external cavity lasers". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1013392.
@article{osti_1013392,
title = {Fast wavelength tuning techniques for external cavity lasers},
author = {Wysocki, Gerard and Tittel, Frank K},
abstractNote = {An apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, an optical beam steering component configured to steer the light beam from the first path to a second path at an angle to the first path, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path, wherein the angle determines an external cavity length. Included is an apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, a beam steering component configured to redirect the light beam to a second path at an angle to the first path, wherein the optical beam steering component is configured to change the angle at a rate of at least about one Kilohertz, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2011}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Continuous-wave operation of a broadly tunable thermoelectrically cooled external cavity quantum-cascade laser
journal, January 2005
- Maulini, Richard; Yarekha, Dmitri A.; Bulliard, Jean-Marc
- Optics Letters, Vol. 30, Issue 19
Widely tunable mode-hop free external cavity quantum cascade laser for high resolution spectroscopic applications
journal, September 2005
- Wysocki, G.; Curl, R. F.; Tittel, F. K.
- Applied Physics B, Vol. 81, Issue 6
Sensitive absorption spectroscopy with a room-temperature distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser
journal, January 1998
- Namjou, K.; Cai, S.; Whittaker, E. A.
- Optics Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 3