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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert R Rice, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Gordon H Burkhart, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Assignee:
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
331 / ; 3501 / ;
Abstract
An improved laser construction having relatively simple single element means located in the laser cavity for simultaneously mode-locking and frequency doubling the laser output, said single element means including a crystal such as a non-linear barium sodium niobate (BSN) crystal properly excited to achieve acoustooptic loss modulation as well as to mode-lock the laser output, and means for locating the crystal within the laser resonator cavity.