GB1006804A - Improvements in or relating to lasers - Google Patents

Improvements in or relating to lasers

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GB1006804A
GB1006804A GB24012/63A GB2401263A GB1006804A GB 1006804 A GB1006804 A GB 1006804A GB 24012/63 A GB24012/63 A GB 24012/63A GB 2401263 A GB2401263 A GB 2401263A GB 1006804 A GB1006804 A GB 1006804A
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prism
radiation
angle
distance
output beam
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PHILLIPS ELECTRONIC AND ASSOCI
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PHILLIPS ELECTRONIC AND ASSOCI
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/08—Construction or shape of optical resonators or components thereof
    • H01S3/081—Construction or shape of optical resonators or components thereof comprising three or more reflectors
    • H01S3/083—Ring lasers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/34—Optical coupling means utilising prism or grating
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
    • G02B6/4201—Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
    • G02B6/4201—Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details
    • G02B6/4202—Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details for coupling an active element with fibres without intermediate optical elements, e.g. fibres with plane ends, fibres with shaped ends, bundles
    • G02B6/4203—Optical features
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
    • G02B6/4201—Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details
    • G02B6/4204—Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details the coupling comprising intermediate optical elements, e.g. lenses, holograms
    • G02B6/4206—Optical features
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
    • G02B6/4298—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers
    • H01L31/0232—
    • H01L31/02327—
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/0602—Crystal lasers or glass lasers
    • H01S3/0606—Crystal lasers or glass lasers with polygonal cross-section, e.g. slab, prism
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/08—Construction or shape of optical resonators or components thereof
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/09—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping
    • H01S3/091—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping
    • H01S3/0915—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by incoherent light
    • H01S3/092—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by incoherent light of flash lamp
    • H01S3/093—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by incoherent light of flash lamp focusing or directing the excitation energy into the active medium
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/0602—Crystal lasers or glass lasers
    • H01S3/0615—Shape of end-face
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accommodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/08—Construction or shape of optical resonators or components thereof
    • H01S3/08059—Constructional details of the reflector, e.g. shape
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
    • H01S3/105—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling the mutual position or the reflecting properties of the reflectors of the cavity, e.g. by controlling the cavity length

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Optical Couplings Of Light Guides (AREA)
  • Lasers (AREA)
  • Medicines Containing Material From Animals Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)
  • Radiation-Therapy Devices (AREA)
GB24012/63A 1962-06-20 1963-06-17 Improvements in or relating to lasers Expired GB1006804A (en)

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US20397262A 1962-06-20 1962-06-20

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AT (2) AT240909B (ko)
BE (2) BE633759A (ko)
CH (2) CH436770A (ko)
DE (2) DE1464313A1 (ko)
DK (1) DK106620C (ko)
FR (2) FR1362805A (ko)
GB (2) GB1006804A (ko)
SE (1) SE313128B (ko)

Cited By (3)

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US3538453A (en) * 1966-11-28 1970-11-03 Wendell S Miller Frustrated total internal reflection laser system
US4468778A (en) * 1980-04-05 1984-08-28 Heinrich Karning Wave guide laser with frustration element
EP2070101A2 (en) * 2006-07-26 2009-06-17 Spacedesign Corporation Method and apparatus for communicating radiation pressure provided by a light wave

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US3500240A (en) * 1964-11-30 1970-03-10 Us Navy Simple traveling wave laser using total - internal - reflection resonator
US4004249A (en) * 1976-01-22 1977-01-18 General Motors Corporation Optical waveguide laser pumped by guided electromagnetic wave
DE2654465C3 (de) * 1976-12-01 1981-12-03 Erwin Sick Gmbh Optik-Elektronik, 7808 Waldkirch Mischkammer in Form eines innen verspiegelten optischen Kanals
US4553238A (en) * 1983-09-30 1985-11-12 The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford University Fiber optic amplifier
YU45229B (en) * 1985-02-04 1992-05-28 Iskra Sozd Elektro Indus Monomode laser device
JPS62195601A (ja) * 1985-09-20 1987-08-28 Nissho Giken Kk 光の方向変換装置
US5528720A (en) 1992-03-23 1996-06-18 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Co. Tapered multilayer luminaire devices
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US6096375A (en) 1993-12-21 2000-08-01 3M Innovative Properties Company Optical polarizer
KR100364029B1 (ko) 1993-12-21 2003-10-04 미네소타 마이닝 앤드 매뉴팩춰링 캄파니 다층광학필름
EP0855043B1 (en) 1995-06-26 2003-02-05 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Diffusely reflecting multilayer polarizers and mirrors
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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3538453A (en) * 1966-11-28 1970-11-03 Wendell S Miller Frustrated total internal reflection laser system
US4468778A (en) * 1980-04-05 1984-08-28 Heinrich Karning Wave guide laser with frustration element
EP2070101A2 (en) * 2006-07-26 2009-06-17 Spacedesign Corporation Method and apparatus for communicating radiation pressure provided by a light wave
EP2070101A4 (en) * 2006-07-26 2012-01-25 Spacedesign Corp METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING A RADIATION PRESSURE PROVIDED BY A LIGHT WAVE

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FR1363539A (fr) 1964-06-12
DE1464313A1 (de) 1969-10-23
SE313128B (ko) 1969-08-04
BE633759A (ko) 1900-01-01
BE633758A (ko) 1900-01-01
FR1362805A (fr) 1964-06-05
DK106620C (da) 1967-02-27
CH436770A (de) 1967-05-31
DE1464314A1 (de) 1969-09-04
GB986042A (en) 1965-03-17
CH426037A (de) 1966-12-15
AT240909B (de) 1965-06-25
AT247916B (de) 1966-07-11

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