Trumpf Laser Gmbh

Trumpf Laser Gmbh & Co. Kg

Trumpf Photonics, Inc.

Alexander Killi

Christoph Tillkorn

Steffen Ried

Hagen Zimer

Vincent Kuhn

Rudolf Huber

Thilo Vethake

Aleksander Budnicki

Viorel C Negoita

Martin Liermann

Dominik Bauer

Sven-Silvius Schad

Dirk Sutter

Yufeng Li

Rainer Flaig

Jonathan Brons

Florian Jansen

Klaus Wallmeroth

Thomas Notheis

Stefan Fuchs

Stephan Strohmaier

Stefan Baumbach

Markus Graf

Haiyan An

Sven Schad

Ulrich Bonna

Simon Nagel

Markus Ginter

Tobias Barnowski

Jochen Kleinbauer

Thomas Rataj

Lukas Irmler

Christoph Wieschendorf

Martin Dipl-Ing Huonker

An optical fiber unit includes an optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a light guiding region configured for guiding light through the optical fiber, an input coupling end having a first fiber end surface for coupling the light into the light guiding region, and an output coupling end having a second fiber end surface for coupling the light out of the light guiding region. The optical fiber unit further includes a first end piece arranged at one of the input coupling end and the output coupling end. The first end piece is configured to couple the light into the light guiding region or couple the light out of the light guiding region. The first end piece includes a reflection element configured to divert a portion of the light propagating along a direction of propagation through the light guiding region away from the direction of propagation.

Optical fiber unit, laser system comprising such an optical fiber unit, and method for evaluating an input coupling quality of the input coupling of useful light into such an optical fiber unit

An apparatus for spectral broadening of laser pulses includes a main body, a plurality of mirror elements fastened to the main body, each having a mirror surface formed thereon and configured to reflect the laser pulses the plurality of mirror elements being fastened to a main body, and at least one nonlinear optical medium for the passage of the laser pulses for the generation of a nonlinear phase (Φ) by self-phase modulation. The at least one nonlinear optical medium may be a sheet-like and disk-shaped solid-state optical medium and/or a gaseous optical medium.

Apparatus for the spectral broadening of laser pulses and optical system

Impingement cooling devices for a laser disk include a carrier plate on the front side of which the laser disk can be secured, and a supporting structure, on the front side of which the rear side of the carrier plate is secured. The supporting structure has a plurality of cooling liquid feed lines from which the cooling liquid emerges in the direction of the rear side of the carrier plate and a plurality of cooling liquid return lines. The feed and return lines run parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the supporting structure, and the supporting structure includes a plurality of cutouts or the rear side of the carrier plate that are open toward the supporting structure, and the cooling liquid feed lines lead into and the cooling liquid return lines lead away from the plurality of cutouts.

Impingement cooling device for a laser disk and associated laser disk module

Disclosed are optical arrangements including: a disk-shaped laser-active medium, a deflecting device, having a plurality of mirror elements on which mirror faces for deflecting a laser beam are formed, and having a base body on which the mirror elements are fastened, the mirror faces of the mirror elements being oriented in such a way that the laser beam is deflected by a respective mirror face via the disk-shaped laser-active medium to another mirror face. The mirror elements are formed in one piece or are monolithically joined, and have a connecting section that is formed rotationally symmetrically with respect to a center axis and is rigidly connected by a material-fit connection or a direct connection to the base body.

Optical arrangements with disk-shaped laser-active mediums

A fiber amplification system is provided for amplifying a laser pulse signal, e.g., an oscillator signal of an oscillator device. The fiber amplification system includes a fiber pre-amplification system having a short, fundamental-mode and step-index fiber configured to pre-amplify the laser pule signal to generate a seed signal and a main amplification system having a large core fiber configured to amplify the seed signal. The short, fundamental-mode step-index fiber can have a length no longer than about 30 cm, and a mode field diameter no less than about 30 &#x3bc;m, e.g., in a range from 30 &#x3bc;m to 60 &#x3bc;m, as well as a high doping concentration needed to provide an absorption length no more than about 30 cm, for providing the seed signal for the large core fiber with low non-linearity.

Ultra short pulse fiber pre-amplifier system for large-core fibers

This disclosure relates to laser disk mounting systems and methods. The laser disk mounting systems comprise a disk module with a round disk-shaped heat sink having a front side, a rear side, and an edge surface connecting the front side and the rear side, and a laser disk arranged on the front side of the heat sink, and a radial mounting device with an opening for receiving the disk module, wherein the disk module is mounted in the radial mounting device such that a force action is applied in radial direction on the edge surface.

Stress-optimized laser disk mounting systems

Wavelength-selective external resonators can be used to greatly increase the output brightness of dense wavelength beam combining (DWBC) system beams by stabilizing the wavelengths of the beams emitted by the individual emitters of the DWBC laser source. The present invention pertains to external resonant cavities that utilize thin-film filtering elements as wavelength-selective elements in external resonators. The present invention further pertains to particular embodiments that utilize thin-film filtering elements in DWBC systems as both output beam coupling elements and wavelength selective elements. The present invention provides advantages over the prior art that include decreased cost, increased fidelity of wavelength selection, and increased wall plug efficiency.

Wavelength selective external resonator and beam combining system for dense wavelength beam combining laser

An external cavity laser apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is provided. The external cavity laser apparatus includes a plurality of beam emitters that collectively emit a plurality of emitted beams that each includes a primary component emitted beam. A first reflective element is configured to reflect the plurality of primary component emitted beams and a first polarizing optic disposed in the optical path of the plurality of primary component emitted beams is configured to rotate a polarization of each primary component emitted beam to produce a first rotated primary component beam having a first linear polarization and a second rotated primary component beam having a second linear polarization. A polarized beam splitter is configured to direct first feedback system output component beams into an output beam, and to direct second feedback system output component beams to the plurality of beam emitters as feedback beams.

Dense wavelength beam combining with variable feedback control

A device for wavelength coupling of laser beams () with different wavelengths (&#x3bb;, . . . &#x3bb;), comprising: at least one laser source for generating a plurality of laser beams (), and an overlapping device for spatial overlapping of the plurality of laser beams () for forming an overlapped laser beam with a plurality of wavelengths (&#x3bb;. . . &#x3bb;). The device has a feedback device arranged between the laser source and the overlapping device for feeding a radiation proportion of the laser beams () to be overlapped back to the laser source, the feedback device comprising a partially reflecting angle-dispersive optical element, in particular a partially reflecting diffraction grating. The overlapping device may, for example, be configured as a transmitting or reflecting diffraction grating whose optical properties are adapted to the optical properties of the partially reflecting diffraction grating to overlap the laser beams () in an essentially dispersion-free manner.

Device for wavelength combining of laser beams

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for beam wavelength stabilization and output beam combining in dense wavelength multiplexing (DWM) systems. Systems and methods are described for performing beam wavelength stabilization and output beam combining in DWM systems while achieving increased wall-plug efficiency and enhanced beam quality. Interferometric external resonator configurations can be used to greatly increase the brightness of DWM system output beams by stabilizing the wavelengths of the beams emitted by the emitters of the DWM laser source. The resonant cavities described by the present disclosure provide advantages over the prior art in the form of decreased cost, increased wall plug efficiency and increased output beam quality. Particular implementations of the disclosure achieve increased wall plug efficiency and increased output beam quality through a combination of innovative cavity designs and the utilization of reflection diffraction elements for beam combining.

High brightness dense wavelength multiplexing laser

A laser disk module includes a lasing element including an active gain medium, the lasing element including opposite top and bottom end surfaces, and a heat transfer element adjacent the bottom end surface, the heat transfer element including a ceramic material that defines a plurality of cooling structures. The heat transfer element is configured to transfer heat generated in the lasing element to a coolant in contact with the heat transfer element in the plurality of cooling structures during operation of the laser disk module.

Cooling disk lasers

The disclosure relates to a pump radiation arrangement comprising: a pump radiation source for producing pump radiation, a means for stabilizing the wavelength of the pump radiation source and a laser-active medium through which the pump radiation passes in a bidirectional manner. The pump radiation arrangement also has a retro-reflector for reflecting pump radiation which is not absorbed by the laser-active medium back to the pump radiation source and a wavelength-selective element for preventing a wavelength destabilization of the pump radiation source by filtering out undesirable spectral portions of pump radiation which is not absorbed by the laser-active medium. The invention also relates to an associated method for pumping a laser-active medium.

Pump radiation arrangement and method for pumping a laser-active medium

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Alexander Killi