Abstract: A laser module including a first housing which encloses a semiconductor laser device, a support, a fiber sleeve for holding an optical fiber, a lens, and an isolator. The isolator and the fiber sleeve are jointly arranged within a second housing which is an integral holder holding both the isolator and the fiber sleeve.

Abstract: A tunable distributed feedback semiconductor laser includes a substrate; an optical waveguide structure disposed on a main surface of the substrate and including an active layer and a diffraction grating, the optical waveguide structure being divided into a first DFB portion, a wavelength-tuning region, and a second DFB portion in that order; a first electrode for injecting carriers into the active layer in the first DFB portion; a second electrode for injecting carriers into the active layer in the second DFB portion; and a third electrode for supplying a wavelength tuning signal to the wavelength-tuning region. The diffraction grating extends over the first DFB portion, the wavelength-tuning region, and the second DFB portion. An optical confinement factor of the wavelength-tuning region is smaller than that of the first and second DFB portions.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser has a reflectance of the front facet coating film or the rear facet coating film dramatically that decreases at wavelengths greater than a predetermined wavelength. This characteristic causes the loss of the semiconductor laser to dramatically increase at wavelengths greater than the predetermined wavelength. As a result, the oscillation wavelength of the semiconductor laser at high temperatures is clamped to around the predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: An outcoupler having a wavelength selective, angle sensitive element or Bragg grating and an arrangement for maintaining the element in a predetermined orientation relative to an incident beam of electromagnetic energy. The Bragg grating may be reflective or transmissive. The inventive outcoupler may be used to implement a phase conjugate master oscillator power amplifier with an oscillator; a resonator in operational alignment with the oscillator; and an outcoupler in alignment with the oscillator. In the best mode, second and third Bragg gratings are included within the oscillator and the resonator, respectively.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser body including a resonator and having a front end face and a rear end face facing each other, the resonator being located between the front end face and the rear end face. The front end face emits principal laser light. A reflectance control film is disposed on the front end face or the rear end face of the semiconductor laser body and is made up of either an aluminum oxide film or a five-layer film including the aluminum oxide film disposed such that it is the layer in the five-layer film farthest from the front end face or the rear end face. A silicon oxide film is disposed on the aluminum oxide film of the reflectance control film and has a thickness of 20 nm or less.

Abstract: A system, a structure, and a method for the generation of second harmonic light are provided. A laser system comprises a seed laser that produces a fundamental frequency light, and a nonresonant multiple pass nonlinear structure generates a second harmonic light using the fundamental frequency light. A second harmonic outcoupler outputs the second harmonic light from the laser system and a reflecting structure reflects a remaining portion of the fundamental frequency light back into the nonresonant multiple pass nonlinear structure to generate additional second harmonic light.

Abstract: A novel semiconductor laser device is provided which can suppress internal optical absorption even when In is used as a material for a semiconductor multilayer mirror containing a nitride. The semiconductor laser device has two mirrors disposed to face each other, and an active layer disposed therebetween. At least one of the mirrors is a multilayer mirror having first nitride semiconductor layers containing Ga and second nitride semiconductor layers containing Al, which are alternately laminated to each other. The second nitride semiconductor layer contains In and includes a first region having a refractive index lower than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer, and a second region having a refractive index lower than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer and an In concentration lower than that of the first region. The second region is disposed closer to the active layer than the first region.

Abstract: Embodiments include a laser pumping unit and a high power vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) device including the same. The laser pumping unit easily diffuses current in a traverse direction by using a tunnel junction. The laser pumping unit may include a substrate, a lower distributed brag reflector (DBR) layer formed on the substrate, an active layer with a quantum well structure formed on the lower DBR layer to generate a light having a predetermined wavelength, a tunnel junction layer formed on the active layer to increase resistance in a vertical direction, and an upper DBR layer formed on the tunnel junction layer.

Abstract: A powerful fiber laser system is configured with at least one large-area multi-clad rare-earth doped fiber, which is configured with a MM core capable of propagating a single mode laser emission at a first wavelength, and with at least one pumping assembly capable of generating an optical pump output at a wavelength shorter than the first wavelength of the rare-earth doped fiber. The pumping assembly has a plurality SM fiber lasers coupled to a SM-MM combiner which is operative to lunch the pump output into the cladding of the rare-earth doped fiber so that the powerful fiber laser system is operative to deliver a power of up to 20 kW.

Abstract: A photonic crystal that can spatially control the resonance efficiency and reduce the leakage of light in transversal directions and a surface emitting laser that can be formed by using such a photonic crystal are provided. The photonic crystal has a first region and a second region having a same periodic structure as fundamental structures thereof and defects are introduced into the periodic structure of the first region, which is arranged around the second region.

Abstract: A controller, such as a programmable logic controller, may manipulate a phase and/or polarization module to alter and/or control the phase and polarization of input beams. Utilizing active phase and polarization control can enable the combination of any arbitrary number of input beams into a single, combined beam. Utilizing active phase and polarization control can also enable the combination of input beams having arbitrary power levels.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to waveguide lasers (e.g., RF-excited waveguide lasers). Certain example embodiments of this invention provide an optical mounting scheme for use with a waveguide laser. In certain example embodiments, a carrier including an optic holder may be provided. An optic may be mounted to the carrier via a face-sealing epoxy. An optic interface may be formed at least in part by the epoxy. The optic interface may be a thin layer of a substantially uniform thickness located between the carrier and optic face. The carrier and/or the optic holder of the carrier may be beveled proximate to where the optic interface is formed and, optionally, proximate to where the epoxy is applied. In certain example embodiments, the epoxy may be applied to only the optic's face and/or to the optic holder's face.

Abstract: A multiwavelength laser system for opthalmological applications. The system including a first semiconductor diode laser including a first working beam of a first wavelength; and at least one second semiconductor diode laser having a second working beam of a second wavelength. The second wavelength being different from the first wavelength.

Abstract: A compact apparatus is provided for stably converting a wavelength of a laser diode with the use of an optical fiber and a wavelength selective device. Employing a bulk type element as a wavelength selective device makes the action of controlling the temperature of the device easy, and can stabilize the wavelength emitted from the laser diode. The optical fiber (2) is placed between the output side of a laser diode (1) and a wavelength selective device (5) of bulk type. While the optical fiber (2) is arranged compact in the form of a coil, the length of an extra-cavity defined by the wavelength selective device (5) is sufficiently longer than the coherence length. Accordingly, the action of stably converting the wavelength can be carried out by the compact apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the wavelength of a laser capable of lasing at multiple wavelengths by using a single acousto-optical modulator and a pair of optical reflectors inside a laser cavity. By adjusting the frequency and amplitude of the radio-frequency source to the acousto-optical modulator, undesired wavelengths are suppressed in the laser cavity, leaving appreciable gain only at the desired wavelength.

Abstract: A decohered laser light production system is provided. The decohered laser light system comprises a laser source. The system further comprises a multi-mode fiber having an input face, an output face and a body for propagating light from the input face to the output face, the input face arranged to accept laser light from the laser source, the body comprising a length such that laser light is generally decohered when exiting the output face.

Abstract: A method for monitoring laser light launched into a core of a single mode fiber includes launching a portion of light directly into the cladding about the core. The cladding launched light is a known fraction of the core launched light and can be monitored by placing a detector about the cladding. Detected light including light that was launched into the cladding and has leaked through the cladding is used as a known fraction of light in the core and can be used to control the laser light source. This can be done with a straight section of single mode optical fiber and does not require bending the fiber. Advantageously, most of the core launched light remains in the core as guided light.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for combining a plurality of laser beams to form a single output beam comprising employing a plurality of lasers and optically connecting an image rotator and recoupler to each of the plurality of lasers.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a wavelength converter capable of stably obtaining a W-class high-output green laser beam and a 2D image display device using this wavelength converter. By causing a polarization direction of a laser light source for generating an excitation light and that of a light emitted from an oscillator to orthogonally intersect, the deterioration of an excitation light source by an ASE is suppressed by a polarization splitting element provided between a laser resonator and the laser light source.

Abstract: In a laser array unit in which a plurality of laser beams emitted from a laser array is received by a lens array, the lens holder for fixedly bonding the lens array is formed such that the length of the surface on which the lens array is bonded in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction of the lens is longer than the length of the surface to be bonded to a certain other fixing member in the same direction.

Abstract: An optical module 10 has a laser light source 20, optical branching means 24 for receiving laser light from the laser light source 20, making a part of the laser light pass through the optical branching means and branching a remaining part of the laser light; a photodetecting portion 30P receiving the remaining part of the laser light branched from the optical branching means 24 and a package 11 holding therein the laser light source 20, the optical branching means 24 and the photodetecting portion 30P, the package 11 having stray light reducing means 200, 201 and 202 provided therein to reduce stray light generated inside the package.

Abstract: An optical coupler comprises first and second mirrors. The first mirror is positioned with respect to the second mirror so that a resonant cavity is defined between them. A waveguide structure is positioned in the resonant cavity and includes a photonic crystal coupler. A thickness of the resonant cavity is selected so that a phase matching condition is satisfied for resonance in the resonant cavity. At least one of the first and second mirrors may be formed from a structure in an optoelectronic device. Alternatively, at least one of the first and second mirrors is formed from a semiconductor layer. At least one of the first and second mirrors may be formed as a semiconductor distributed bragg reflector, or as a dielectric distributed bragg reflector. At least one of the first and second mirrors may be a mirror in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) structure.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for spectral-beam combining light from a plurality of high-power fiber lasers that, in some embodiments, use two substantially identical diffraction gratings in a parallel, mutually compensating configuration to combine a plurality of separate parallel input beams each having a slightly different successively higher wavelength into a single output beam of high quality. In other embodiments, a single diffraction grating is used to combine a plurality of different wavelengths, wherein the input laser beams are obtained from very narrow linewidth sources to reduce chromatic dispersion. In some embodiments, diagnostics and adjustments of wavelengths and/or positions and angles are made dynamically in real time to maintain the combination of the plurality input beams into a single high-quality output beam.

Abstract: A monoblock laser cavity includes a plurality of discrete optical components disposed serially on a substrate and sharing a common optical axis. The optical components include a laser rod of gain material, a Q-switch, an OPO crystal, and an output coupler. The output coupler has at least one convex end face to improve the beam quality.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic component which includes a removable planar card having a light emitting diode (LED). The electronic component also includes an attachment flange having a first face and a second face substantially parallel to a removable planar card face, and a bushing installed in a hole in the attachment flange. The bushing includes an inner member having a head, a threaded shaft extending from the head. The inner member is inserted through the flange hole such that the head rests on the flange first face. The bushing also includes a sleeve having an threaded inner diameter that is threaded onto the shaft such that the attachment flange is clamped between the inner member and the sleeve and a bottom end of the sleeve is suspended over the LED. Finally, the electronic component includes an optical transmission line inserted into a through hole in the inner member.

Abstract: In a horizontal cavity surface emitted laser, there is provided a device structure that is capable of obtaining a circular narrow-divergence emitted beam that is high in the optical coupling efficiency with a fiber. As a first means, there is provided a horizontal cavity surface emitting laser having a structure in which the plane mirror that is inclined by 45° and the bottom lens of the oval configuration are integrally structured. As a second means, there is provided a horizontal cavity surface emitting laser in which the mirror having the columnar front surface configuration inclined by 45° and the bottom lens of the columnar front surface configuration are integrally structured. Since the horizontal component and the vertical component of the laser beam can be shaped, independently, through the above means. As a result, it is possible to obtain the circular narrow-divergence emitted beam.

Abstract: This laser beam processing apparatus includes a fiber laser oscillator, a laser beam branching unit, a laser beam injecting unit, a fiber transmission system, a laser beam irradiating unit, and a processing table. Based on a fiber laser beam, which is oscillation-outputted from the fiber laser oscillator, the laser beam branching unit executes simultaneous multi-branching from the fiber laser beam into a plurality of branched laser beams. The laser beam injecting unit injects the branched laser beams respectively into optical fibers for transmission and the laser beam irradiating units condense and apply the branched laser beams from the optical fibers for transmission respectively to processing points.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes a substrate made of InP, an active layer including a multiquantum well structure, which is formed in a width of 7 to 14 ?m on the substrate, and an n-type cladding layer made of InGaAsP and a p-type cladding layer made of InP, which are formed on the substrate with the active layer interposed therebetween. The semiconductor laser oscillates only in the fundamental lateral mode, and light emitted from an exit facet can be optically coupled with an external single mode optical fiber.

Abstract: A laser gain material module may include a lasing portion and a perimetral portion. The perimetral portion may be formed in a predetermined shape to substantially prevent any spontaneously emitted photons created in the lasing portion and entering the perimetral portion from returning to the lasing portion.

Abstract: Techniques and devices that stabilize a laser to a whispering gallery mode optical resonator.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a lens structure has an object surface, an image surface, and an axicon mirror. The axicon mirror is defined by an inner diameter, an outer diameter, and a tilt angle, with the tilt angle being defined by a plane of the axicon mirror and the surface of the axicon mirror. The image surface is positioned within the inner diameter of the axicon mirror. The lens structure may be incorporated into an optical transmitter having a light source and a photodetector. The light source is positioned to transmit light toward the object surface of the lens structure, and the photodetector is positioned to receive light reflected from the axicon mirror. A method for producing lens structures with different optical attenuation properties is also disclosed.

Abstract: Laser diodes are formed with an outcoupling grating between two separate distributed Bragg reflectors. The devices have gain regions located between the reflector gratings for pumping the active region. The outcoupling grating couples light out of the waveguide normal to the surface if the grating spacings are equal to an integer number of wavelengths of the light within the cavity. If the gratings are not such an integer number, the light is coupled out of the cavity off the normal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic component which includes a removable planar card having a light emitting diode (LED). The electronic component also includes an attachment flange having a first face and a second face substantially parallel to a removable planar card face, and a bushing installed in a hole in the attachment flange. The bushing includes an inner member having a head, a threaded shaft extending from the head. The inner member is inserted through the flange hole such that the head rests on the flange first face. The bushing also includes a sleeve having an threaded inner diameter that is threaded onto the shaft such that the attachment flange is clamped between the inner member and the sleeve and a bottom end of the sleeve is suspended over the LED. Finally, the electronic component includes an optical transmission line inserted into a through hole in the inner member.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion laser device includes a laser light source for emitting a first wavelength light, a nonlinear optical crystal for converting the first wavelength light into a second wavelength light, and a nonlinear optical crystal rotator for rotating the nonlinear optical crystal so as to change an incident angle of the first wavelength light into the nonlinear optical crystal. The device also includes a nonlinear optical crystal rotation driving controller for controlling a rotation amount of the rotator in accordance with an output change of the second wavelength light so that the nonlinear optical crystal has phase matching with the first wavelength light. The device further includes a light exit position adjustor for compensating an exit position change of the second wavelength light in accordance with the incident angle change of the first wavelength light so that the second wavelength light is outputted in a predetermined exit position.

Abstract: The invention provides a laser system (100) wherein the output may be selected from two or more different wavelengths of output laser light. The system (100) comprises a laser capable of having at least two different wavelengths of laser light resonating in the cavity (105) simultaneously. One of the frequencies is generated by a Raman crystal (135) which shifts the frequency of light generated by the lasing medium (125). A tunable non-linear medium (140), such as LBO, is provided in the cavity for selectively frequency converting at least one of the at least two different wavelengths of laser light. The conversion may be SHG, SFG or DFG for example. A tuner (145) is provided to tune the non-linear medium to select the particular wavelength to convert. Temperature tuning or angle tuning of the non-linear medium can be used. A Q switch (130) may also be provided in the cavity.

Abstract: A light source includes a semiconductor laser diode and a narrow spectral and spatial bandwidth reflector in optical communication with respect to the semiconductor diode laser and aligned with the output beam of the diode laser, such that a portion of the light in the output beam is reflected back into the laser.

Abstract: A fiber laser beam processing apparatus is configured by a fiber laser oscillator, a laser power source unit, a laser beam injecting unit, a fiber transmission system, a laser beam irradiating unit, a processing table, etc. A portion of a fiber laser beam oscillated and outputted by the fiber laser oscillator is received by a photo diode for monitoring the power through a beam splitter. An output signal of the photo diode is sent to a laser power source unit. The power source unit receives the output signal of the photo diode as a feedback signal and controls a driving current or an excitation current to be supplied to a laser diode of a pumping unit such that the laser output of the fiber laser beam equals a set value.

Abstract: The fiber laser beam processing apparatus includes a fiber laser oscillator, a laser power source unit, a laser injecting unit, a fiber transmission system, a laser beam irradiating unit, a processing table, etc. The fiber laser oscillator includes an optical fiber for oscillation, an electric optical pumping unit that applies an excitation beam for optical pumping onto an end face of the optical fiber for oscillation, and a pair of optical resonator mirrors optically facing each other through the optical fiber for oscillation. The optical fiber for oscillation includes a core extending on the central axis thereof, a clad surrounding the core, an air layer surrounding the clad, and a support surrounding and supporting the air layer.

Abstract: A line narrowing module includes an elliptical mirror, a diffraction grating disposed at a first focus of the mirror for separating an incident beam into different lines, and a laser beam dispersion and extraction unit. The laser beam dispersion and extraction unit disperses incident laser over the diffraction grating and selectively extract from the resulting lines a laser beam having a desired narrowed bandwidth. A light source that employs the line narrowing module also includes a laser oscillator for generating the beam, and a light returning unit that returns one fraction of the beam extracted from the laser oscillator back to the laser oscillator. Another fraction of the beam is extracted from the laser oscillator through a front window of the laser oscillator, and undergoes line narrowing in the module. The laser beam having the narrowed bandwidth is immediately output as the exposure light from the module.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical device able to luminesce, whereby the optical device comprises, inter alia, a luminescent source that is directly or indirectly mechanically coupled to a low-order mode waveguide, such that light emitting from the luminescent source is optically coupled into the low-order mode waveguide. In embodiments of the invention, the distance D between point sources of the luminescent source and the waveguide is about equal to or smaller than the decay length of the exponential tails of the modes supported by the waveguide, thereby obtaining an optical coupling efficiency of at least 3%. Additional and alternative embodiments are claimed and disclosed.

Abstract: An electrically pumped semiconductor laser is provided as including a waveguide structure disposed on the substrate. An optical coupling layer is disposed on the substrate and the waveguide. A resonator layer is disposed on the optical coupling layer and may be adapted to include a photonic crystal lattice having a plurality of substantially cylindrical pores extending downwardly into the resonator layer. An insulating cap layer may be disposed on the resonator layer which operatives to seal the photonic crystal lattice. A first plug filled vias is formed on a central region of the cap layer, which extends downwardly to permit a bottom portion of the first plug to communicate with the photonic crystal lattice. Further, a second plug filled vias is formed on an edge region of the cap layer and extends downwardly to permit a bottom portion of the second plug to communicate with the photonic crystal lattice.

Abstract: The transmittance of an etalon relative to an oscillating line having the wavelength of 1061.6 to 1062.2 nm by an Nd:YAG laser medium 3 is set to 0.9 or lower (the maximum value of the transmittance is 1.0). The oscillating line of the wavelength of 1061.6 to 1062.6 nm is damped by the etalon so that a peak corresponding thereto does not substantially appear in an outputted laser beam. Accordingly, a longitudinal mode can be preferably changed to a single mode and an output can be stabilized.

Abstract: All optical clock recovery includes a transmitter for generating an optical timing signal. The transmitter includes a semiconductor laser for the production of a dynamically synchronizable timing signal, the laser having an external resonator for feedback of the timing signal to the laser, the feedback having a delay time greater than a relaxation oscillation time for the laser, and the laser outputting an optical timing signal having a characteristic dynamic. The transmitter supplies the optical timing signal to a receiver configured to receive the timing signal and to synchronize to the laser on receipt of the timing signal, such that the receiver outputs a recovered timing signal having the characteristic dynamic.

Abstract: Providing a high peak power short pulse duration gas discharge laser output pulse comprises a pulse stretcher a laser output pulse optical delay initiating optic diverting a portion of the output laser pulse into an optical delay having an optical delay path and comprising a plurality of confocal resonators in series aligned to deliver an output of the optical delay to the laser output pulse optical delay initiating optic. The plurality of confocal resonators comprises four confocal resonators comprising a twelve pass four mirror arrangement. An apparatus and method may comprise a plurality, e.g., two pulse stretchers in series and may include spatial coherency metrology.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device 1a includes a lead frame 4 having an aperture 7, a submount 8 disposed on one surface of the lead frame 4 to close the aperture 7, a semiconductor optical element 3 which has an optical portion 6 and which is mounted on a surface of the submount 8 opposite to a surface on a side of the aperture 7 with the optical portion 6 facing the aperture 7 through the submount 8, a molding portion 10 made of a non-transparent molding resin which exposes at least a region including the aperture 7 on the other surface side of the lead frame 4 and which encapsulates the lead frame 4, the semiconductor optical element 3 and the submount 8, and a lens 9 disposed on the other surface of the lead frame 4 to close the aperture 7.

Abstract: The present invention relates to optical systems, beam expanding assemblies, line narrowing modules, and lasers having refractive optical elements with wavefront correcting optical surfaces. The present invention enables the skilled artisan to provide optical systems, beam expanding assemblies, line narrowing modules, and lasers having improved optical properties, such as, in the case of lasers, narrow linewidth at high power, and substantially planar wavefronts.

Abstract: A tunable semiconductor laser includes gain medium, wavelength-selective element and a laser mode matching element. The wavelength-selective element comprises a first light absorbing plate operatively coupled to the laser mode matching element and provided with an array of high reflectivity mirrors as well as a second light absorbing plate with an array of narrow band pass filter mirrors operatively coupled to the high reflectivity mirror array of the first plate. The narrow band pass filter mirror array is disposed over a respective array of apertures in the second plate. The wavelength-selective element also comprises a light reflective plate with an array of retroreflectors and a third light absorbing plate with an array of apertures operatively disposed between the aperture array of the second plate and the retroreflector array.

Abstract: (Problem to be solved) To provide a laser beam synthesizing apparatus which is small in size and high in output power. (Means for solving the problem) A convergent angle transforming optical system 30 is disposed further upstream of the upstream-most position Pa in the positions where the optical axes of beam bundles La, Lb, Lc . . . which are radiated from a plurality of semiconductor lasers 11A, 11B, 112C . . . and converged in the fast axis view by a converging/dispersion lens 120 intersect each other in the fast axis view, and the whole beam bundle made up of the beam bundles La, Lb, Lc . . . passed through the converging/dispersion lens 120 is converged in the fast axis view by the convergent angle transforming optical system 30 so that the angle of convergence of the whole beam bundle is made smaller in the fast axis view, and introduced into the core 41 of an optical fiber 40.

Abstract: An improved resonator and optical cavity is adapted for use with a chemical laser that has a nozzle upstream of the resonator that emits a gain medium in a flow direction, and a pressure-recovery system downstream of the resonator. The optical resonator comprises first and second optical elements that are spaced apart from one another along an optical axis. Each of the optical elements has a selected geometry and a selected optical transmissivity to permit transmissive outcoupling of a beam of laser radiation from the resonator, the outcoupled beam being transmitted about the optical axis. The transmissivity and geometry of each optical element is selected to define an unstable region between the optical elements and around the optical axis, and a stable region in a region surrounding the unstable region and spaced apart from the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical system includes semiconductor lasers arranged in the direction of the slow axis of the laser beam, an optical means which makes parallel the collimated laser beams, an optical member which is provided with inlet and outlet faces which are positioned in perpendicular to the optical axis of laser beams and total reflection surfaces which are opposed to each other at a space where the component in the direction of the slow axis of the laser beam entering from the light inlet face repeats internal reflection, and emits from the light outlet face a slow axis uniform laser beam, and an imaging optical means which images the slow axis uniform laser beam on a surface as a linear line beam extending in the direction of the slow axis.