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- Patent Title: Environmentally stable optical fiber mode-locked laser generating device having an achromatic quarter wave plate
- Patent Title (中): 具有无色四分之一波片的环境稳定的光纤锁模激光发生装置
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Application No.: US13516949Application Date: 2010-12-15
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Publication No.: US08908721B2Publication Date: 2014-12-09
- Inventor: Tai-Hyun Yoon , Gwang-Hoon Jang
- Applicant: Tai-Hyun Yoon , Gwang-Hoon Jang
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: Korea University Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Korea University Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: William Park & Associates Patent Ltd.
- Priority: KR10-2009-0127134 20091218
- International Application: PCT/KR2010/008987 WO 20101215
- International Announcement: WO2011/074877 WO 20110623
- Main IPC: H01S3/30
- IPC: H01S3/30 ; H01S3/11 ; H01S3/067 ; H01S3/10 ; H01S3/08

Abstract:
An Environmentally stable optical fiber mode-locked laser generating device having an achromatic quarter wave plate is disclosed. An optical fiber unit is formed of a polarization maintaining (PM) optical fiber, and a Bragg grating is formed on a first region from one end in direction to the other end, a gain material is doped on a core of a remaining second region. An optical coupling unit provides a pump laser input to one end of the optical fiber unit, and outputs a laser input from the optical fiber unit. A lens unit converts a laser output from the other end of the optical fiber unit and focuses the laser on a certain regime. A polarization control unit includes an achromatic quarter wave plate (AQWP) which is disposed between the lenses constituting the lens unit and made by laminating two quarter wave plates (QWPs) such that fast-axes of the QWPs are orthogonal to each other, and controls mode-locking of the laser and spectral bandwidth by adjusting an angle of the AQWP with respect to a fast-axis or a slow-axis of the optical fiber unit. A saturable absorbing unit saturably absorbs and reflects the laser passed through the second lens, resulting in mode-locking.
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