Abstract: Techniques and devices for producing short laser pulses, including generating ultrashort laser pulses by separating a nonlinear processing of laser pulses via nonlinear self-phase modulation (SPM) in a nonlinear optical medium from a subsequent linear processing of the laser pulses to achieve ultrashort laser pulses.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 7, 2013
Publication date:
September 26, 2013
Applicant:
CALMAR OPTCOM, INC., DBA CALMAR LASER
Inventors:
Rui Zhang, Hong Cong, Sha Tong, Jerry Prawiharjo, En-Kuang Tien, Anthony Hong Lin
Abstract: Techniques and devices for producing short laser pulses based on chirping and stretching of short seed laser pulses and subsequent power amplification. Such laser pulses with relatively narrow spectral bandwidths can be used in certain laser applications where narrow spectral bandwidth laser pulses are advantageous. In the examples described in this document, the generated laser pulses with relatively narrow spectral bandwidths may have relatively long pulse durations (e.g., greater than 1 ps) due to the stretching operation in the pulse generation.