Abstract: A device for converting wave energy into electrical energy has a sliding mass, a guide for the sliding mass, an electric generator provided with a rotor, a rotor shaft integral with the rotor, a first mechanism that connects the sliding mass to the rotor shaft and can convert the motion of the sliding mass on the guide into a rotational motion of the rotor shaft, and a second mechanism interposed between the first mechanism and the rotor shaft to provide the rotor with an one-way rotation, regardless of the direction of motion of the sliding mass. A floating apparatus may include such a device.

Abstract: Search Engine Direct Links method and system for assigning and displaying in a communication network system thru a search engine website. A product or service described with the fewest words is linked to websites that provide this product or service. This system and method links those descriptions to their respective websites and save them in a searchable database. This system and method searches this database to produce a small and precise list of websites linked to those products or services descriptions. This system and method allows current, active and supported websites stand out among thousands and thousands of websites found during a regular search engine search by creating a small and separate search engine direct links list result.

Abstract: Presented herein is a multipass optical amplifier including a thin-disk gain medium, a first reflective element optically coupled to the gain medium, a first parabolic reflector in optical communication with the gain medium and the first reflective element, a second parabolic reflector in optical communication with the first parabolic reflector, and a second reflective element in optical communication with the second parabolic reflector. The amplifier also includes a pump source, a signal beam source, and a chamber having first and second regions configured about the multipass optical amplifier with a port that extracts gas from the chamber. The first region includes the first parabolic reflector, the gain medium, and the first reflective element. The second region of the chamber includes the second reflective element and the second parabolic reflector. An input optic propagates the signal beam through the amplifier to impinge the gain medium multiple times for gain.

Abstract: The various laser architectures described herein provide increased gain of optical energy as well as compensation of optical phase distortions in a thin disk gain medium. An optical amplifier presented herein provides for scalable high energy extraction and gains based on a number of passes of the signal beam through a gain medium. Multiple, spatially separate, optical paths may also be passed through the same gain region to provide gain clearing by splitting off a small percentage of an output pulse and sending it back through the amplifier along a slightly different path. By clearing out the residual gain, uniform signal amplitudes can be obtained.

Abstract: The various laser architectures described herein provide increased gain of optical energy as well as compensation of optical phase distortions in a thin disk gain medium. An optical amplifier presented herein provides for scalable high energy extraction and gains based on a number of passes of the signal beam through a gain medium. Multiple, spatially separate, optical paths may also be passed through the same gain region to provide gain clearing by splitting off a small percentage of an output pulse and sending it back through the amplifier along a slightly different path. By clearing out the residual gain, uniform signal amplitudes can be obtained.

Abstract: The various laser architectures described herein provide increased gain of optical energy as well as compensation of optical phase distortions in a thin disk gain medium. An optical amplifier presented herein provides for scalable high energy extraction and gains based on a number of passes of the signal beam through a gain medium. Multiple, spatially separate, optical paths may also be passed through the same gain region to provide gain clearing by splitting off a small percentage of an output pulse and sending it back through the amplifier along a slightly different path. By clearing out the residual gain, uniform signal amplitudes can be obtained.