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Jds Uniphase Corporation

Derek A Tucker

Martin H Muendel

Dahv Kliner

Christoffer Stroemberg

Susan Fung

James J Morehead

Lawrence E Myers

Loren A Eyres

Juan Lugo

Bertram C Johnson

An amplifier assembly may include a first heat sink plate that includes a first channel, a second heat sink plate that includes a second channel, and an amplifier rod disposed in the first channel and the second channel. The second heat sink plate may be connected with the first heat sink plate such that the first channel and the second channel align. The amplifier rod may be connected to the first heat sink plate and the second heat sink plate by a non-eutectic solder.

Amplifier assembly

A cascaded harmonic generator, for cascaded optical harmonic generation from an optical beam provided by a laser source, may include a second harmonic generator to generate a second harmonic optical beam based on a residual beam associated with the optical beam. The cascaded harmonic generator may include a third harmonic generator to generate a third harmonic optical beam based on the second harmonic optical beam and the optical beam. The third harmonic generator may be positioned in an optical path upstream from the second harmonic generator. A harmonic generator delay time, associated with the optical path, may be approximately equal to, or may be an approximate integer multiple of, a laser source round-trip time.

Cascaded optical harmonic generation

The invention relates to a laser system including a nonlinear crystal having a first length portion and a second length portion. The nonlinear crystal disposed to receive input light from the laser for converting the input light into frequency converted light; wherein the nonlinear crystal is configured so that the first length portion of the nonlinear crystal is phase matching for the input light and the frequency converted light, and the second length portion of the nonlinear crystal is phase mismatching for the input light and the frequency converted light. Phase mismatching means may include a temperature controlling board, a clamp, or electrodes.

Frequency conversion of a laser beam using a partially phase-mismatched nonlinear crystal

A cladding mode stripper for stripping cladding modes from an optical fiber is disclosed. The cladding mode stripper includes a reflective base and a block of a transparent material disposed on the reflective base. The block of the transparent material has a groove in its bottom surface for the fiber. The fiber is thermally coupled to the base and optically coupled to the groove in the block, for example using an index matching gel. The cladding mode light is reflected from the reflective base and is absorbed in a cover enclosing the block. An additional thin block of transparent heat-conductive material can be placed between the fiber and the reflective base, to prevent the index matching gel from contacting the reflective surface of the base.

Scalable cladding mode stripper device

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Derek A Tucker