发明名称 |
Optical pumping apparatus for slab lasers and amplifiers |
摘要 |
An optical amplifier includes a solid state gain-element. The gain-element is pumped by pump-radiation from a diode-laser bar. The diode-laser radiation is delivered from the diode-laser bar to the gain-element entirely via a tapered light-guide which guides the radiation only in a fast-axis direction of the diode laser bar. The tapering of the light-guide reduces fast-axis divergence of the pump-radiation by about a factor of ten. The pump-radiation is delivered to the gain-element as a line of radiation homogenized in the fast-axis direction. |
申请公布号 |
US9231363(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2016.01.05 |
申请号 |
US201514620949 |
申请日期 |
2015.02.12 |
申请人 |
Coherent, Inc. |
发明人 |
Hertwig Michael;Govorkov Sergei |
分类号 |
H01S3/094;H01S3/16;H01S5/40;H01S3/0941;H01S3/06;H01S3/042;H01S5/10;H01S3/08 |
主分类号 |
H01S3/094 |
代理机构 |
Morrison & Foerster LLP |
代理人 |
Morrison & Foerster LLP |
主权项 |
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a gain-element; a diode-laser bar for providing pump-radiation for energizing the gain-element, the diode-laser bar having a length, and the pump-radiation being delivered from the diode-laser bar in a propagation-direction, with a transverse slow-axis of the pump-radiation parallel to the length of the diode-laser bar and a fast-axis of the pump-radiation perpendicular to the slow-axis; and wherein the pump-radiation is delivered from the diode-laser bar to the gain-element by transporting the radiation in a tapered light-guide, the light-guide guiding in the fast-axis direction only and being tapered in the fast-axis direction, with a fast-axis height of the light-guide increasing progressively in the propagation direction. |
地址 |
Santa Clara CA US |