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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998

Filed:

Aug. 14, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Roy D Mead, Seattle, WA (US);

Charles I Miyake, Kirkland, WA (US);

Dennis D Lowenthal, Edmonds, WA (US);

Assignee:

Aculight Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; G02F / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 22 ; 372 20 ; 372 21 ; 372 23 ; 359326 ; 359328 ; 359330 ; 606-3 ; 606-4 ; 606-5 ; 606 10 ;
Abstract

A solid state laser system producing coherent radiations at deep ultraviolet wavelengths includes a solid state laser producing a first beam having a wavelength near 1 micron. The 1 micron beam is passed to both a harmonic generation stage and to a tunable optical parametric oscillator. The harmonic generation stage is configured to produce a fifth harmonic of the 1 micron beam, while the optical parametric oscillator produces a tunable beam in the near infrared spectrum (e.g., approximately 2.075 micron). The fifth harmonic and the near infrared beams are mixed in a sum frequency generator to produce a highly coherent beam in the deep ultraviolet (e.g., between approximately 180 nm to 213 nm).


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