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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Serge Valette, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 92 ; 372-9 ; 372 99 ; 372-7 ; 372101 ; 372 21 ; 372 11 ;
Abstract
A laser including a resonant cavity having a solid amplifier medium (1, 7, 8), an inlet mirror (2, 9, 10), an outlet mirror (3, 11, 12, 21), and an optical pumping device (5, 13, 16) to emit at least one pumping beam from the amplifier medium. The laser is operable to vary the direction of the pumping beam in the amplifier medium, and the cavity possesses a geometry enabling a laser beam to be generated, irrespective of the direction of the pumping beam.