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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:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1987
James D Kafka, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark Linne, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas M Baer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Spectra-Physics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A miniaturized Q-switch is added to the resonant cavity of a compact laser diode pumped solid state laser to produce short high peak power pulses which are input into a single mode optical fiber to form a compact continuum generator. Q-switching the compact laser diode pumped solid state lasers takes advantage of the relatively high gain and short cavity length to provide a desirable combination of pulsewidth and pulse energy. Nd:YAG or Nd:YLF are useful solid state laser materials for Q-switching, or other longer lifetime rare earth ions such as erbium or holmium for greater energy storage. The Q-switch is formed of a material such as TeO.sub.2, SF.sub.10, or LiNbO.sub.3 with an acoustooptic figure of merit substantially greater tha fused silica. The high peak powers of the lasers are sufficient to exceed the threshold for Raman conversion in the fiber which produces a series of red shifted bands ending in a continuum by stimulated Raman scattering.
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