Sanders Associates Limited

Corporation for Laser Optics Research

Mark Gregory Knights

Masayuki Karakawa

Evan P Chicklis

Glen Allan Rines

The invention is directed to a compact optically side-pumped solid-state laser with an optimized overlap between the mode of the laser beam propagating in the laser material and the pump beam. Using a common pump volume, the compact solid-state laser can simultaneously emit laser beams at different wavelengths. The laser can be combined with nonlinear optical elements to provide a RGB three color laser architecture suitable for color projection display applications.

Solid state laser

A high efficiency storage laser is achieved by pumping a Tm:LiYF.sub.4 laser from an electrically excited XeBr* fluorescer.

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Brookline, NH, United States of America

Mark Gregory Knights