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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991

Filed:

Sep. 07, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

Mark A Linne, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert W Johnson, Los Altos, CA (US);

Richard G Thompson, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

Spectra-Physics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 25 ;
Abstract

A switched cavity laser system which includes a resonant cavity, a gain medium within the resonant cavity, a cavity switch and an output coupler. A controllable pump energy source delivers pump energy to the gain medium in response to an energy control signal. A detector is coupled with the gain medium and generates a detector signal in response to the amount of population inversion exhibited by the gain medium. A control circuit is coupled to the detector and controllable pump energy source for generating the energy control signal in response to the detector signal. As the switching rate of the Q-switch is varied, the energy control signal varies to ensure a constant level of population inversion between each pulse. In this matter, a prespecified pulse energy is achieved for each pulse independent of the switching rate of the Q-switch.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Linne, Mark. (1991). Apparatus for controlling pulse energy in a q-switched laser system (U.S. Patent No. 5018152). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5018152

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