Nlight Photonics Corporation

Sti Optronics, Inc.

Richard D Romea

Jason N Farmer

Wayne D Kimura

Loren C Steinhauer

Mark R Pratt

Scott H Keeney

The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing a spectrally tailored Raman pump. The system and method employ an incoherently beam combined laser configuration to combine output beams from a plurality of emitters. Embodiments of the present invention provide emitter devices with electrodes adapted to allow addressability of various emitters. In some embodiments, each emitter is individually addressable thereby allowing the output power of each emitter to be controlled by a drive current. In another embodiment, blocks of emitters are coupled to a single current source. Each emitter of a block is operated at a common power level. In certain embodiments, blocks of emitters are driven at current levels significantly greater than the threshold current for the emitters to increase operating efficiency. Moreover, certain embodiments vary emitter spacing to increase linear power density and/or to allocate additional power to the blue end of the Raman pump. By providing spectral tailoring, embodiments of the present invention are capable of providing reasonable flat Raman gain over relatively broad spectrum.

Spectrally tailored raman pump laser

The present invention is in general related to efficient operation of an external cavity laser and more particularly to a system and method of operating an external cavity laser utilizing one or more controlled linewidth gain elements. Specifically, the linewidth of an gain elements is broadened so that Brillouin scattering mechanisms in a gain medium are eliminated or reduced.

System and method for providing a controlled linewidth external cavity laser

A method and apparatus for exchanging energy between relativistic charged particles and laser radiation using inverse diffraction radiation or inverse transition radiation. The beam of laser light is directed onto a particle beam by means of two optical elements which have apertures or foils through which the particle beam passes. The two apertures or foils are spaced by a predetermined distance of separation and the angle of interaction between the laser beam and the particle beam is set at a specific angle. The separation and angle are a function of the wavelength of the laser light and the relativistic energy of the particle beam. In a diffraction embodiment, the interaction between the laser and particle beams is determined by the diffraction effect due to the apertures in the optical elements. In a transition embodiment, the interaction between the laser and particle beams is determined by the transition effect due to pieces of foil placed in the particle beam path.

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Richard D Romea