Abstract: An electron beam pumped laser including a surface-emitting laser faceplate oriented at a non-perpendicular angle. Embodiments are described in which a bending coil bends the electron beam, or in which the faceplate is situated in the direct path of the e-beam emission but with a non-zero orientation angle. The faceplate may include a substantially opaque substrate, and an opaque heat-removing structure may be attached to the substrate to provide high heat transfer, thereby allowing high electron-beam pumping intensity and providing more light emission from a smaller package. In some embodiments the partially reflective mirror comprises a metal layer that has a plurality of openings. Multiple laser faceplates (e.g., red, green, and blue) may be placed in the same tube, to provide a continuous light source for projection television. The substrate may be connected to ground to provide an exit path for electrons from the laser gain layer.

Abstract: A laser having a laser cavity is disclosed that does not require conventional dielectric mirrors or as-grown reflectors. Instead, a diffraction grating and total internal reflection system is used to define a laser cavity. Within the laser cavity, the laser emission travels in a zigzag pattern. The diffraction grating provides a highly reflective “mirror” diffracting beams at a forward angle and back angle that “tunes” the process of total internal reflection. The diffraction grating also directs a small percentage of the incident radiation approximately normal to the upper face of the semiconductor (more generally, at an angle less than the critical angle), to provide an output laser beam. The laser can be used in an electron tube and laser display system.

Abstract: A laser having a laser cavity is disclosed that does not require conventional dielectric mirrors or as-grown reflectors. Instead, a diffraction grating and total internal reflection system is used to define a laser cavity. Within the laser cavity, the laser emission travels in a zigzag pattern. The diffraction grating provides a highly reflective “mirror” diffracting beams at a forward angle and back angle that “tunes” the process of total internal reflection. The diffraction grating also directs a small percentage of the incident radiation approximately normal to the upper face of the semiconductor (more generally, at an angle less than the critical angle), to provide an output laser beam. The laser can be used in an electron tube and laser display system.

Abstract: An electron beam pumped laser including a surface-emitting laser faceplate oriented at a non-perpendicular angle. Embodiments are described in which a bending coil bends the electron beam, or in which the faceplate is situated in the direct path of the e-beam emission but with a non-zero orientation angle. The faceplate may include a substantially opaque substrate, and an opaque heat-removing structure may be attached to the substrate to provide high heat transfer, thereby allowing high electron-beam pumping intensity and providing more light emission from a smaller package. In some embodiments the partially reflective mirror comprises a metal layer that has a plurality of openings. Multiple laser faceplates (e.g., red, green, and blue) may be placed in the same tube, to provide a continuous light source for projection television. The substrate may be connected to ground to provide an exit path for electrons from the laser gain layer.

Abstract: A laser cathode-ray tube having an electron beam source, a means for its control, and a laser target containing a supporting substrate, a cavity resonator formed by two mirrors and multilayer semiconductor structure having active and passive strained layers, whose difference in lattice parameters in a free state is up to 10% or more and which have coherent boundaries between each other in the structure.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser screen in a cathode-ray tube with a sealed casing. The laser screen has a screen structure which is formed by a semiconductor member, a reflecting mirror and a partly transparent mirror on opposite sides of the semiconductor member. The screen structure is connected to a transparent support by means of a connecting layer which is formed by glass having a softening point of at least 675K. The materials of the semiconductor member, the transparent support, the connecting layer and the casing are made of materials with similarly low coefficients of expansion to prevent damage to the screen as it cools down from the manufacturing process.

Abstract: A heat removing support member connected to an output mirror of an optical cavity of a cathode-ray tube has microscopic roughness of its surface facing towards the screen.

Abstract: In a laser screen for a cathode-ray tube having a semiconductor member of a semiconductor compound positioned between a partly transparent mirror and a reflecting mirror, an intermediate member is grown by deposition from vapor phase on the partly transparent mirror. The intermediate member is made of a semiconductor material transparent for radiation generated by the screen and has a bandgap width which is at least 0.98 times as great as the bandgap width of the material of the semiconductor member. The intermediate member is cemented to a transparent heat removing support member.

Abstract: A semiconductor member of a laser screen cathode-ray tube is made of a semiconductor compound selected from the group consisting of binary, three-component and four-component compounds of elements of the second and sixth Groups of the Periodic System and a support member is made of a semiconductor compound of the same type with a bandgap width such as to make it transparent for radiation generated by said screen. Maximum of 15% of atoms of the overgrown support member are substituted for isovalent atoms and the bandgap width of the support member is at least 0.1 eV greater than the bandgap width of the semiconductor member. The support member is overgrown from vapor phase on a partly transparent mirror deposited to one side of the semiconductor member forming an optical cavity with a reflecting mirror deposited to the opposite side of the semiconductor member.

Abstract: An electron beam current modulator is provided between a cathode and a laser screen of a cathode-ray tube and has at least three deflecting plates positioned around, and symmetrically with respect to an optical axis of the cathode-ray tube and a diaphragm having an aperture of a regular shape. An electromagnetic control system is provided between the cathode and deflecting plates. A pickup senses position of the electron beam and produces a signal in case of an offset of the electron beam with respect to the optical axis. A video signal source is connected to a carrier generator having an output connected to an input of a phase shifter. The phase shifter has its outputs connected to the deflecting plates to rotate the cross-section of the electron beam in a plane drawn perpendicularly with respect to the optical axis. The apparatus has a control unit having an input connected to the pickup and an output connected to the electromagnetic control system.