Patents by Inventor Jiangfan Xia

Jiangfan Xia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7817680
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a Photonic Bandgap (PBG) fiber having a lower nonlinearity and an abnormal dispersion than a solid core fiber for connecting and transmitting a laser from the stretcher to a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser into an output laser whereby a separate compressor is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: PolarOnyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Patent number: 7593434
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The fiber CPA laser system further includes a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser and a high-order dispersion compensating compressor for compensating high order dispersions and compressing the pulse width of the laser. The high-order dispersion compensating compressor further includes a pair of gratings coupled with a pair of prisms, a grating pair engraved on the surfaces of a pair of prisms, a chirped grating pair and a phase modulator consists of a grating and a deformable mirror, for generating a negative group velocity dispersion (GVD) and a negative third order dispersion (TOD) for the laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: PolarOnyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Patent number: 7505489
    Abstract: A Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) fiber laser system. The CPA fiber laser system includes a fiber mode-locking (ML) oscillator implemented as a cavity dumped ML oscillator including a cavity dumper for generating a seed laser at a reduced repetition rate to project to a pulse stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The CPA fiber laser system further includes a multistage amplifier chain for generating an amplified laser to project to a compressor for compressing the amplified laser. The multistage amplifier chain further includes a hybrid amplifier includes a solid-state amplifier to generate a laser of approximately 1˜10 mJ for a 10-100 KHz repetition rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: PolarOnyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20090010287
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a Photonic Bandgap (PBG) fiber having a lower nonlinearity and an abnormal dispersion than a solid core fiber for connecting and transmitting a laser from the stretcher to a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser into an output laser whereby a separate compressor is not required
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Patent number: 7440173
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a self-phase modulation (SPM) assisted photonics crystal fiber (PCF) single mode (SM) fiber stretcher. The fiber CPA laser system further includes a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser and a high-order dispersion-compensating compressor for compensating high order dispersions and compressing the pulse width of the laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Polar Onyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Patent number: 7430224
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a Photonic Bandgap (PBG) fiber having a lower nonlinearity and an abnormal dispersion than a solid core fiber for connecting and transmitting a laser from the stretcher to a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser into an output laser whereby a separate compressor is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: PolarOnyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070171945
    Abstract: A Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) fiber laser system. The CPA fiber laser system includes a fiber mode-locking (ML) oscillator implemented as a cavity dumped ML oscillator including a cavity dumper for generating a seed laser at a reduced repetition rate to project to a pulse stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The CPA fiber laser system further includes a multistage amplifier chain for generating an amplified laser to project to a compressor for compressing the amplified laser. The multistage amplifier chain further includes a hybrid amplifier includes a solid-state amplifier to generate a laser of approximately 1˜10 mJ for a 10-100 KHz repetition rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070047595
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The fiber CPA laser further includes a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser for projecting into a pulse shaper then to a compressor having a nonlinear phase generator for compensating high order dispersions and compressing the pulse width of the laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070047598
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a Photonic Bandgap (PBG) fiber having a lower nonlinearity and an abnormal dispersion than a solid core fiber for connecting and transmitting a laser from the stretcher to a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser into an output laser whereby a separate compressor is not required
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070047965
    Abstract: A method for overcoming the drawback in a fiber CPA laser system that includes a process of generating a large negative TOD by implementing an AODS in a pulse shaper as a dispersive component. The AODS is implemented to arbitrarily modulate both the spectrum shape and phase to control with controllable amplitude to generate different orders of dispersions including a large negative TOD for compensating the positive TOD generated by the pulse stretching and amplification processes. The AODS, implemented as a dispersive component, can be an active and controllable dispersive component to generate adjustable levels of dispersions for flexibly compensating any order of dispersions generated in the amplifier chain including the nonlinear phase shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070047597
    Abstract: A Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) fiber laser system. The CPA fiber laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser to project to a pulse stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The CPA fiber laser system further includes a pulse picking up device to pick up selected pulses for projecting to a multistage amplifier chain for generating an amplified laser to project to a compressor for compressing the amplified laser. The CPA fiber laser system is enabled to generate an output laser having a power up to few ?J for 10 KHz pulses with a pumping power as low as 100 mW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070014317
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser. The fiber CPA laser system further includes a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser and a high-order dispersion compensating compressor for compensating high order dispersions and compressing the pulse width of the laser. The high-order dispersion compensating compressor further includes a pair of gratings coupled with a pair of prisms, a grating pair engraved on the surfaces of a pair of prisms, a chirped grating pair and a phase modulator consists of a grating and a deformable mirror, for generating a negative group velocity dispersion (GVD) and a negative third order dispersion (TOD) for the laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia
  • Publication number: 20070002910
    Abstract: A fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator for generating a laser for projecting to a fiber stretcher for stretching a pulse width of the laser wherein the stretcher further comprising a self-phase modulation (SPM) assisted photonics crystal fiber (PCF) single mode (SM) fiber stretcher. The fiber CPA laser system further includes a multistage amplifier for amplifying the laser and a high-order dispersion-compensating compressor for compensating high order dispersions and compressing the pulse width of the laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Jiangfan Xia