Coherent light generators – Particular pumping means – Pumping with optical or radiant energy
Patent
1989-12-22
1991-07-16
Gonzalez, Frank
Coherent light generators
Particular pumping means
Pumping with optical or radiant energy
372 97, 372 99, 372 21, 307425, 307428, H01S 3093
Patent
active
050330578
ABSTRACT:
An optical parametric oscillator capable of operating in the 0.300 to 0.400 micrometer wavelength range is disclosed. The oscillator includes a cavity defined at its ends by a pair of cavity resonator mirrors. A nonlinear optical crystal is positioned on the optical axis of the cavity intermediate the mirrors and is rotatable about a crystalline axis to tune the oscillator. A pair of pump steering mirrors are mounted in the cavity, one mirror between each resonator mirror and the corresponding end of the crystal. A source of pumping energy supplies energetic light to the cavity, the pumping beam being directed into the cavity and onto a first steering mirror, thence through the crystal and to the second steering mirror which then directs the pumping beam out of the cavity. The pumping beam may be at a wavelength of 266 nm, for example, to produce an output wave from the oscillator within the range of interest.
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Bosenberg Walter R.
Cheng Lap K.
Tang Chung L.
Cornell Research Foundation Inc.
Gonzalez Frank
Morse Susan S.
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