Coherent light generators – Particular active media – Plural active media or active media having plural dopants
Patent
1993-06-07
1995-01-31
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Coherent light generators
Particular active media
Plural active media or active media having plural dopants
372 64, 372 87, 372 95, 372 97, 372108, 359346, 359348, H01S 308, H01S 310, H01S 3098
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active
053864310
ABSTRACT:
A slab laser amplifier array includes a plurality of parallel, stacked, laser resonators, with each resonator having a walk-off mode of propagation of laser light from an input side of the resonator to an output side of the resonator where the exiting light diffracts around the resonator mirror. A source of a plurality of phase related, for example co-phasal, light beams supplies phase related light to each input side. The source of phase related light may be a source of one single mode beam followed by a telescope with an aperture having plural stops or a co-phasal array of laser resonators. A laser array of open resonators also has circular concentric electrodes.
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Bovernick Rodney B.
Lambert Anthony R.
McNutt Robert
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