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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2006
Mitsuo Ishizu, Koganei, JP;
Mitsuo Ishizu, Koganei, JP;
Abstract
A laser apparatus has a multipath solid-state slab laser rod and an excitation source that excites it, and uses a solid-state slab laser rod that has a trapezoid or parallelogram-shaped cross section along the optical path, that is provided with six or more faces and that has a light amplifying effect or a nonlinear optical effect. The light that is incident to the laser rod is totally reflected at the incident-light end face and exit end face of the laser rod, passes back through the interior of the laser rod a plurality of times, e.g., three times, and then exits. For light amplification, excitation light is irradiated from the side face. In addition, for nonlinear optical effects, the z-axis of a nonlinear optical crystal is disposed so as to be orthogonal to the plane of the optical path, and the temperature of the solid-state slab laser rod is kept at the phase-matching temperature. This laser apparatus of this configuration solves drawbacks of prior-art laser rods so that the high conversion rate from excitation light to laser light is obtained at a high laser gain.