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Samartsev, Igor

Gapontsev, Valentin

Valentin Gapontsev

Valentin Fomin

Igor Samartsev

Nikolai Platonov

Dimitri Yagodkin

Anton Ferin

Andrey Abramov

Yuri Grapov

Volodia Sergueev

Mikhail Vyatkin

Alexey V Avdokhin

Alexey Komissarov

Alex Yusim

Oleg Shkurikhin

Roman Yagodkin

Mikhail Abramov

Igor Moskalev

Eugene Shcherbakov

Sergey Vasilyev

Alex Ovtchinnikov

Alexander Makagon

Michael Mirov

Ilia Zaytsev

Mikhall Vyatkin

Michael Vyatkin

Vladimir Grigoriev

Nicholai Platonov

Andrei Babushkin

Dmitry Starodubov

Michael Digiantommaso

Fedor Shcherbina

Eugene Scherbakov

Pavel Trubenko

Viktor Sokolov

Andrey Mashkin

Holger Mamerow

Sebastian Favre-Bulle

Alexander Dronov

Nikita Radionov

Artjom Fuchs

Nikolai Platanov

Ingo Schramm

Charlie Baker

Denis V Gapontsev

Dan Perlov

Nikolay Evtikhiev

Anatolii Zamkov

Andrey Sadovskiy

Alexander Ovtchinnikov

Alexey Avdokhin

Anton Starovoytov

Valentin Tartyshnyy

Oleg Vershinin

Boris Davidov

Dmitri Oulianov

Vladimir Sergueev

Dan Myasnikov

Ilya Zaytsev

Mark Warren

Andreas Michalzik

Alex Dergachev

Oleksiy Andrusyak

Bruce Jenket

Aleksander Cherepakhin

Aleksander Zaytsev

Andrey Arramov

Michael Lyons

Darrell Colman

Roberto Alzaga

Vasili Shumilin

Andrei Mashkin

Vladimir Antonenko

Alexander Makagoon

A Raman fiber laser source (RFLS) is configured with a feeding fiber delivering MM pump radiation to an inner cladding of double-clad MM Raman fiber laser. The MM pump radiation has a sufficient power to produce Raman scattering in the MM Raman fiber converting the pump radiation to a MM signal radiation at a Raman-shifted wavelength λram which is longer than a wavelength λpump of the pump radiation. The RFLS further has a pair of spaced reflectors defining therebetween a resonator for the signal radiation at a 1Stokes wavelength and flanking at least part of the MM core of the Raman fiber which is provided with a central core region which is doped with impurities for enhancing Raman process. The reflectors and central core region are dimensioned to correspond to the fundamental mode of the MM signal radiation.

High power cladding pumped single mode fiber Raman laser fees

The disclosed laser system is configured with a laser source outputting light at a fundamental frequency. The output light is incident on a frequency converter operative to convert the fundamental frequency to a higher harmonic including at least one frequency converting stage. The frequency converter is based on a SrBO(SBO) or PbBO(PBO) nonlinear crystal configured with a plurality of domains. The domains have periodically alternating polarity of the crystal axis enabling a QPM use and formed with each with highly parallel walls which deviate from one another less than 1 micron over a 10 mm distance.

High power laser converter based on patterned SRB4B07 or PBB407 crystal

A high average and peak power single transverse mode laser system is operative to output ultrashort single mode (SM) pulses in femtosecond-, picosecond- or nanosecond-pulse duration range at a kW to MW peak power level. The disclosed system deploys master oscillator power amplifier configuration (MOPA) including a SM fiber seed, outputting a pulsed signal beam at or near 1030 nm wavelength, and a Yb crystal booster. The booster is end-pumped by a pump beam output from a SM or low-mode CW fiber laser at a pump wavelength in a 1000-1020 nm wavelength range so that the signal and pump wavelengths are selected to have an ultra-low-quantum defect of less than 3%.

High-power, rare-earth-doped crystal amplifier based on ultra-low-quantum-defect pumping scheme Utilizing single or low-mode fiber lasers

The inventive laser is configured with a plurality of pigtailed multimode (MM) diode lasers each receiving a direct input current at a room temperature which is maintained to be within a 20-25&#xb0; C. inside the housing of the laser. The diode lasers each are configured to operate at a desired wavelength in an optimal operational range, in which the diode laser operates with a WPE range between 63% and 75%. The direct current inputted in each diode laser is selected to be below a threshold at an efficiency curve of the diode laser after which the efficiency of the diode laser starts decreasing while an output power of the diode laser continues to increase. The laser is further configured with a fiber gain block having an active fiber medium which is pumped with the cumulative pump output and operative to emit a laser output in a power range between hundreds of watts and tens and even hundreds of kilowatts at the desired wavelength in an optimal operation range. The optimal operational ranges of respective MM diode lasers and fiber gain block are matched to achieve a superposition of respective efficiency maximums providing an overall maximum system efficiency up to 55%.

High power high efficiency fiber laser and method for optimizing wall plug efficiency thereof

A single-mode (SM) Green fiber laser is configured to operate in a Green spectral range in a continuous-wave (CW) or quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) mode. The Green laser is configured with a pump source, outputting narrow-linewidth pump light at a fundamental wavelength in one (1) micrometer spectral range, and a single-pass second harmonic generator (SHG), such as a nonlinear LBO crystal, frequency doubling the pump light to output Green light at a signal wavelength. The pump light source is configured to have a MOPFA configuration with a SM seed which emits the SM pump light with a linewidth narrower than 0.2 nm, and at least one ytterbium ('Yb') fiber amplifier receiving and amplifying the SM pump light at the fundamental wavelength while maintaining the linewidth narrower than 0.2 nm. The SM Green fiber laser operates with a wall plug efficiency between 15% and 30% in a 510-540 nm signal wavelength range and a power range between about 50 W and kW-levels.

Ultra-high power single mode green fiber laser operating in continuous wave and quasi-continuous wave regimes

The present invention provides systems and methods for producing short laser pulses that are amplified and spectrally broadened in a bulk gain media. The bulk material, having laser gain and nonlinear properties, is concurrently exposed to an optical pump input and a seed input, the pump power being sufficient to amplify and spectrally broaden the seed pulse.

Sub-nanosecond broad spectrum generating laser system

A hand displaceable laser welding gun is configured with an elongated support column extending along a longitudinal axis and made from lightweight material. A support plate is displaceably mounted to the column while supporting thereon an optical head axially which is provided with optics. The optics is configured to direct a laser beam along a path towards a welding zone through a protective window of the optical head. The laser welding gun further is structured with a first arm mounted to the support plate and extending along a longitudinal axis of the gun diametrically opposite to the optical head. The inner surface of the displaceable arm has an inner surface defining a tunnel which is aligned with the optical head and axially traversed by the laser beam, a first axially flowing stream of pressurized gaseous medium, and a second axially flowing stream of gaseous medium. The second stream, entering the tunnel at a pressure lower than that one of the first stream in response to a pressure gradient generated in the column, does not generate vortexes within the column. The first and second streams exit through the downstream end of the tunnel next to the welding zone. As the streams flow out, they carry out welding debris flowing within the tunnel to the optical head.

Hand maneuverable welding gun

Systems and methods for spectrally broadening seed pulses with a single pass laser amplifier are disclosed. A bulk TM:II-VI polycrystalline material with combined gain and nonlinear characteristic provides passive (cold) spectral broadening of high power seed pulses. Continuous pumping provides more significant spectral broadening. In particular, pulsed pumping of TM:II-VI polycrystalline material (e.g. Cr2+:ZnS, Cr2+:ZnSe, and Cr2+:CdSe) is shown to provide significant spectral broadening to the super continuum generation SCG level. Pulse picking, pump sources, master oscillators and various optical components are described.

Single pass laser amplifier with pulsed pumping

The disclosure is a method and system for monitoring the condition of an optical protective component in a laser system associated with a data processor. In one embodiment, the method begins with directing light from the process head of a laser through the optical protective component onto a workpiece. A return light via the workpiece causes light signals coupled through the protective component and into to a fiber which extends proximate the protective component and thereafter flexibly to a sensor. The sensed signals allow monitoring the condition of the protective component during use. The method and system is operative for use with optical protective elements downstream of the process head.

Method and system for monitoring output of high power fiber laser system

A high power fiber laser system is configured with a pump cascade and a laser cascade. The pump cascade includes a fiber amplifier provided with a MM core which is doped with ions of rare-earth element including either Er or Yb/Er. The MM core of fiber amplifier is configured with a double bottleneck-shaped cross section. The laser cascade has a fiber laser configured with a core which is doped with Tm ions. The pump light generated by the amplifier is coupled into the upstream end of the Tm laser.

High power single mode fiber laser system for wavelengths operating in 2 &#x3bc;m range

A fiber block is configured with a fiber block including a Nd-doped active fiber and a pump-light delivery fiber which has a stretch extending along the active fiber in a side-to-side configuration so as to lunch pump light into the Nd-doped core of the active fiber. The core of the active fiber is surrounded by at least one or more claddings which, like the core, have a double bottleneck cross-section with a relatively large-area central region and relatively small input and output regions. The pump light delivery fiber is structured to have a substantially dumbbell cross-section with a relatively small-area central region coextending with the central region of the active fibers. The active fiber is dimensioned so that the overall length of the active fiber is configured to provide for the maximal amplification of the laser signal in a 900 nm range while limiting amplification in the 1060 nm range to the preset threshold. The fiber block is further configured so as to have the major fraction of the unabsorbed light, supported in the relatively large-area output end region of the passive fiber, be further used for pumping a neighboring fiber block.

High power neodymium fiber lasers and amplifiers

A high power fiber laser system includes a booster winch is configured as a fiber amplifier extending over free space, pump source and laser head including a reflective element which receives pump light and reflects toward the output end of the booster in a counter signal-propagating direction. The booster is configured with concentric and coextending frustoconically shaped ('MM') core and cladding around the core. The core includes a mode transition region expanding between small diameter SM input and large diameter MM output core ends and configured so that amplification of high order modes is substantially suppressed as a single mode ('SM') signal light propagates from the input to output core ends. The laser head receives output ends of respective pump light delivery fibers and signal fiber, respectively. The pump source is structured with a plurality of independent sub pumps arranged around the booster. The laser head supports a segmented mirror configured to reflect pump lights from respective pump sub-sources to the output end of the booster in a counter propagating direction, wherein the booster is configured to emit the amplified signal light reaching up to MW power levels substantially in the SM.

Ultra-high power single mode fiber laser system with non-uniformly configure fiber-to-fiber rod multimode amplifier

A high power single mode ('SM') laser system includes an amplifier configured with a monolithic fiber to rod fiber waveguide which is structured with a multimode ('MM') core and at least one cladding surrounding the core. The MM core is configured with a small diameter uniform input region receiving and guiding a SM signal light, a mode-transforming frustoconical core region expanding outwards from the input region and a relatively large diameter uniform output portion. The high power laser system is further structured with a MM pump light delivery fiber having a numerical aperture NA, which is at most equal to that one of the output core portion. The amplifier and pump light output fiber traverse an unconfined delivery cable and terminate upstream from a mirror which is configured to focus the incident pump light into the core of the amplifier in a counter-propagating direction. The mirror is further structured with an opening aligned with the optical axis of the amplifier and configured to provide a lossless passage of amplified signal light in a propagating direction.

Ultra-high power single mode fiber laser system with non-uniformly configured fiber-to-fiber rod multimode amplifier

A clad absorber unit is provided on a passive fiber of a high power fiber laser system and operative to trap and remove high order modes propagating along the clad of the passive fiber. The mode absorber has a composition made from one or more liquid metals and alloys thereof which are placed in the opening formed in the sheath of the passive fiber. The composition is configured to remove from the cladding the MM light having a predetermined light power which heats the composition at a temperature lower than a threshold temperature at which the absorber may be damaged.

High power metal clad mode absorber

A laser illuminated projector system is configured with multiple Red, Green and Blue laser sources. The Green laser source has an all fiber master oscillator power amplifier configuration in which pump light is coupled into the output end of the fiber amplifier in a counter-propagation direction rendering the structure of the Green source and therefore projector system compact. The Green laser source is operative to emit signal light pulses at about 1064 nm wavelength with a pulse repetition reaching of up to about 3000 kHz, pulse duration between about a 100 fm to about 100 psec, an average power between 1.5 W to above 30 W, a peak power above 5 MW, a pulse energy exceeding 100 &#x3bc;J and a beam quality parameter Mranging between 1.2 and 1.5. The thus configured Green laser source substantially reduces speckle otherwise visible on the laser illuminated screen.

High power ultra-short pulse laser-illuminated projector

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Worcester, MA, United States of America

Valentin Gapontsev