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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1993
John M McMahon, Potomac, MD (US);
Robert C Stoneman, Alexandria, VA (US);
Leon Esterowitz, Springfield, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A tunable ytterbium-doped solid-state laser has a laser cavity defined a r of mirrors, a laser medium positioned in this cavity, means for pumping the laser medium, and means for tuning the output of this laser medium to a selected wavelength within a wavelength range. The laser medium has a host material doped with enough ytterbium ions to produce a longitudinal mode laser emission when the laser medium is pumped. In a most preferred embodiment, the laser emission is frequency-doubled and tuned to a wavelength corresponding to a Fraunhoffer line in the solar spectrum.