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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2016
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Portola Valley, CA (US);
Alain Villeneuve, Mont-Royal, CA;
Jason M. Eichenholz, Orlando, FL (US);
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a laser system includes a seed laser configured to produce optical seed pulses. The laser system also includes a first fiber-optic amplifier configured to amplify the seed pulses by a first amplifier gain to produce a first-amplifier output that includes amplified seed pulses and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). The laser system further includes a first optical filter configured to remove from the first-amplifier output an amount of the ASE. The laser system also includes a second fiber-optic amplifier configured to receive the amplified seed pulses from the first optical filter and amplify the received pulses by a second amplifier gain to produce output pulses. The output pulses have output-pulse characteristics that include: a pulse repetition frequency of less than or equal to 100 MHz; a pulse duration of less than or equal to 20 nanoseconds; and a duty cycle of less than or equal to 1%.