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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:
Jun. 20, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 39 ; 372-6 ; 372 69 ; 372 68 ;
Abstract
The optical fiber is doped at the core thereof with Tm ions and Nd ions. When light at a wavelength in a 800-nm band for exciting the Nd ions, is incident upon the optical fiber through an incident portion thereof, the Nd ions emit light at a wavelength in the vicinity of 1,012 .mu.m. Through three excitations by absorption of light emitted from the Nd ions and/or energy transfer from the Nd ions, the Tm ions experience three excitation transitions and reach a third high energy level through first and second high energy levels. Thereafter, the Tm ions experience a radiative transition from the third high energy level, thereby to emit blue light at a wavelength of 480 nm.