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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:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter E Powers, Ithaca, NY (US);
Lap K Cheng, Bear, DE (US);
Wayne S Pelouch, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Chung L Tang, Ithaca, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 25 ; 359330 ; 372 20 ; 372 21 ;
Abstract
A continuous wave tunable femtosecond optical parametric oscillator includes an oscillator cavity including a pumping cavity. A nonlinear KTiOAsO.sub.4 crystal (KTA) is located in the pumping cavity and is pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser to produce output pulses having widths as short as 85 femtoseconds at wavelengths in the range 1.0 .mu.m to 5.0 .mu.m.