Abstract:
A chirped-pulsed amplification laser device includes a fiber laser driver, a laser head, and a delivery fiber that guides amplified stretched laser pulses from the laser driver to the laser head. The fiber laser driver includes a seed pulsed laser, a pulse stretcher, and an optical power amplifier. A chirped fiber Bragg grating compressor in the laser head includes a fiber terminal section configured to minimize broadening of the amplified stretched laser pulses, a chirped fiber Bragg grating section connected to the fiber terminal section and configured to compress and reflect amplified stretched laser pulses to produce reflected laser pulses with compressed pulse durations, and a collimator housing configured to fixedly hold a collimator lens and a ferrule. The ferrule holds the fiber terminal section tilted relative to an optical axis of the collimator lens.
Abstract:
The present application discloses a novel chirped pulse amplification (CPA) fiber laser that has easily reconfigured output repetition rate and energy, and high spatial and temporal quality.
Abstract:
Techniques and designs for tunable and dynamically stabilized a laser wavelength in various lasers, including fiber lasers and actively mode-locked lasers. In an actively mode-locked laser, a dynamic wavelength tuning control and a dynamic cavity length control are implemented to maintain mode locking during tuning of the laser wavelength.
Abstract:
Techniques and devices for producing short laser pulses, including generating ultrashort laser pulses by separating a nonlinear processing of laser pulses via nonlinear self-phase modulation (SPM) in a nonlinear optical medium from a subsequent linear processing of the laser pulses to achieve ultrashort laser pulses.
Abstract:
Techniques and devices for producing short laser pulses based on chirping and stretching of short seed laser pulses and subsequent power amplification. Such laser pulses with relatively narrow spectral bandwidths can be used in certain laser applications where narrow spectral bandwidth laser pulses are advantageous. In the examples described in this document, the generated laser pulses with relatively narrow spectral bandwidths may have relatively long pulse durations (e.g., greater than 1 ps) due to the stretching operation in the pulse generation.
Abstract:
A passive mode-locked linear-resonator fiber laser using polarization-maintaining fibers and a saturable absorber to produce ultra short pulses and a long-term reliable operation with reduced maintenance. Such a fiber laser can be configured to produce tunable pulse repetition rate and tunable laser wavelength.
Abstract:
Techniques and devices for generating laser light that use large mode area fiber amplifiers and designed coiling fiber sections to achieve desired operations in a fundamental fiber mode with high pulse quality and optical beam quality while reducing presence of high order fiber modes in continuous wave (CW) and pulsed laser devices.