Optical: systems and elements – Optical frequency converter
Patent
1995-06-12
1997-07-15
Lee, John D.
Optical: systems and elements
Optical frequency converter
G02F 135
Patent
active
056488661
ABSTRACT:
An optical system for efficiently directing a large bandwidth light (e.g., a femtosecond laser pulse) onto a nonlinear optical medium includes a plurality of optical elements for directing an input light pulse onto a nonlinear optical medium arranged such that the angle .theta..sub.in which the light pulse directed onto the nonlinear optical medium is substantially independent of a position x of the light beam entering the optical system. The optical system is also constructed such that the group velocity dispersion of light pulses passing through the system can be tuned to a desired value including negative group velocity dispersion.
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DeLong Ken
Hayden Carl
Trebino Rick
Lee John D.
Nissen Donald A.
Olsen Kurt C.
Sandia Corporation
Stanley Timothy D.
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