| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7352790 |
Method and apparatus for producing an eye-safe laser |
April 1, 2008 |
| A lasing apparatus includes a laser medium and a pump source. The laser medium includes one of a Holmium-doped fluoride crystal or a Holmium-doped fluorozirconate ZBLAN glass fiber. The pump source generates pulses that resonantly pump the laser medium such that the laser medium prod |
| 6580732 |
Multiple mode laser |
June 17, 2003 |
| A laser apparatus is described having multiple modes of operation using intracavity optical switching within a laser resonator. The laser resonator has a solid state gain medium and one or more optical switches located between a pair of end reflectors. The pump for the gain medium has |
| 6219361 |
Side pumped, Q-switched microlaser |
April 17, 2001 |
| A microlaser is provided that has a microresonator and a pump source for side pumping the microresonator. The microresonator includes an active gain medium and a Q-switch that extend lengthwise between the opposed end faces of the microresonator. The pump source is therefore positioned s |
| 6211951 |
Boresight alignment method |
April 3, 2001 |
| A boresight alignment method is used for aligning a laser with an optical sighting system in a laser designator or the like. The method includes selecting a target formed of a flat sheet of material, such as a metal foil, supporting the selected target at the focus of a collimating t |
| 5926495 |
Laser diode pump wavelength sensing and control apparatus and method |
July 20, 1999 |
| A laser diode pumped laser has a laser diode wavelength sensing and control apparatus. A laser medium is mounted in a laser cavity and has a laser diode pump having a laser diode or laser diode array having an output of a predetermined wavelength for exciting the laser medium. An optical |
| 5729341 |
Method and apparatus for testing materials for use in a laser resonator |
March 17, 1998 |
| A method and apparatus for testing materials for use in a laser resonator includes selecting a test fixture apparatus having a housing with an internal chamber volume selected to approximate the internal volume of a predetermined laser resonator and having a pair of sealed windows therei |
| 5550851 |
Laser system decontamination method and apparatus |
August 27, 1996 |
| A decontaminate apparatus for a laser system includes a laser having a compartment housing having a base and walls formed into a cavity and having a compartment cover having at least a portion thereof porous to predetermined gases used in laser system optical cavities. The compartment |
| 4839902 |
Laser with controlled geometry fluorescent converter |
June 13, 1989 |
| The efficiency of an optically pumped solid state laser is substantially improved with a controlled geometry fluorescent converter between the pump light source and the lasing medium. Fluorescent materials have the capability of absorbing broadband pumping radiation, shifting it in w |
| 4826304 |
Adjustable optical mounting assembly |
May 2, 1989 |
| An adjustable optical mounting assembly, particularly suited for folding or periscope optics, provides for optical beam motion in three axes using a bearing having a spherical surface. This invention greatly simplifies the mount mechanism and operting procedure, reduces the size, and pro |
| 4682340 |
Apparatus for and method of extracting an output beam from a laser system |
July 21, 1987 |
| The output of a laser oscillator is doubly passed through a birefringement medium, a quarter-wave plate and a laser amplifier by reflection from a phase conjugate mirror, the birefringent medium being between the oscillator and the plate in the path of the initial and reflected oscil |
| 4601038 |
Conduction cooled solid state laser |
July 15, 1986 |
| The exterior surfaces of a laser rod and pump lamp are covered with a highly reflective metal foil to prevent light leakage from the rod and lamp. The laser rod and pump lamp operate within a cavity inside a heat sink. Between the metal foil and the housing is a thermally conductive |
| 4594716 |
Conduction cooled solid state laser |
June 10, 1986 |
| The exterior surfaces of a laser rod and pump lamp are covered with a highly reflective metal foil to prevent light leakage from the rod and lamp. The laser rod and pump lamp operate within a cavity inside a heat sink. Between the metal foil and the housing is a thermally conductive |
| 4558452 |
Narrow bandwidth laser apparatus |
December 10, 1985 |
| Laser apparatus having a very narrow (<1A) spectral output comprises a laser cavity having a metal vapor cell as one of the reflecting elements. This cell reflects the laser beam over a narrow wavelength region in the vicinity of one of the metal vapor's resonant absorption lines and |
| 4494235 |
Multiple wavelength laser |
January 15, 1985 |
| A pulsed or CW laser is rapidly switched to operate at one or more selectable wavelengths by means of intracavity insertion of beam dispersion and focussing elements and an apertured focal plane mask and shutter assembly. The laser beam has an axis and is dispersed into components or |
| 4429394 |
Conduction cooled solid state laser |
January 31, 1984 |
| A conduction cooled solid state laser comprises a laser rod and a pump lamp within a pump cavity in a housing constituting a heat sink, the remote exterior surfaces of the rod and lamp being covered by highly reflective metal foils in intimate contact with those surfaces and backed by a |
| 4390993 |
Laser electrode assembly |
June 28, 1983 |
| A laser electrode assembly comprises an elongated bar having a plurality of longitudinally spaced sockets and is removably secured to a carrier which is anchored to the laser base and has a like number of plugs resiliently press-fitted within the sockets, respectively. Each plug has oppo |
| 4270095 |
Cycloid-scanning laser pumping method and apparatus |
May 26, 1981 |
| A dye laser is disclosed wherein a plastic disk containing laser dye is moved within a cylindrical race relative to a stationary pumping laser beam such that the pumping beam effectively scans the surface of the laser disk along a cycloidal path as the disk rolls along the race surface. |
