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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for generating a high output optical pulse of femto-seconds. SOLUTION: The high output optical pulse generator has a fiber oscillator 10 for generating signal light, an amplification fiber 11 to be used also as a Soliton-Raman compressor(SRC) capable of receiving signal light with a non- linear phase delay and amplifying and compressing the received signal and a periodical poling LNbO (PPLN) 20 to be a frequency converter for frequency- converting the amplified optical pulse into a high output optical pulse. Dispersion is compensated by a dispersion compensating fiber 18. An optical pulse is reflected by a Faraday rotation mirror(FRM) 19 and a double pulse format is taken. Energy from pump light injected from a pump 16 is obtained, a signal light is amplified and compressed and a high output optical pulse of femto- seconds can be obtained by wavelength frequency-converted by the PPLN frequency converter 20.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use lasers for patterning images on solid substrates, by solving the problem with conventional laser engraving, which yields grayscale images with image contrast determined by machining depth and is sensitive to laser irradiation parameters.SOLUTION: Systems and methods for providing laser texturing of solid substrates are disclosed. In some embodiments, images may be obtainable from the substrate by modifying the reflective, diffractive, and/or absorptive features of the substrate or the substrate surface by forming random, periodic, and/or semi-periodic micro-structure features on the substrate (or substrate surface) by an ultrafast laser pulse train. The micro-structure features may have average sizes slightly larger, comparable to, and/or smaller than the wavelength of light of the ultrafast pulse train. The ultrafast pulse train may be modulated in order to vary, for example, optical exposure time, pulse train intensity, laser polarization, laser wavelength, or a combination thereof.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact and inexpensive high output chirp pulse amplifier from 100 mW to 10 W, and a compressor suitable for the high output chirp pulse amplifier.SOLUTION: The high output chirp pulse amplifier generating an ultrashort pulse includes a source 10 for generating an elongation pulse, i.e., elongated pulse light, an output amplification stage 20 for amplifying the elongation pulse, and a compressor 40 for receiving the elongation pulse from the output amplification stage 20 and compressing the elongation pulse. The output amplification stage 20 has a double clad fiber and a pump. Preferably, the compressor 40 includes a fiber grid for compressing a laser pulse signal to have a duration less than a threshold of nonlinear effect, and a grating which accepts the pulse signal compressed by the fiber grid so as to compress the pulse signal furthermore. Chirp pulse amplification action of a clad pump fiber ensures high output chirp pulse amplification with a compact and inexpensive amplifier.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-productivity fiber chirped pulse amplification system which exhibits a high pulse stretching ratio and compression ratio. SOLUTION: The fiber chirped pulse amplification system includes a seed pulse light source for producing short optical pulses, a stretcher for stretching the pulses, and a plurality of concatenated sections of polarization maintaining fibers, at least one of which is an amplifier. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fiber in which amount of polarization mode coupling and polarization mode dispersion are reduced and in which polarization maintaining capacity is increased, and to provide a high efficient fiber amplifier or laser with a polarization maintaining large outer-diameter such that pump light is guided inside a cladding while a large outer cladding ensures decrease in mode-coupling inside the fiber core. SOLUTION: The polarization maintaining fiber includes a fiber core, a first cladding surrounding this core, a coating surrounding this first cladding, and a means for minimizing polarization mode-coupling that couples with a fiber having a minimum fiber outer diameter ≥125 μm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for stabilizing a short pulse fiber laser capable of reducing timing jitter caused by variations in an environmental condition such as vibration, the disturbance of air, a change in temperature to a minimum. SOLUTION: The method for stabilizing the short pulse fiber laser has a segregating step which segregates the fiber laser from an outside environment, a twisting step which twists the fiber laser around a fiber spool, and an operating step which operates the fiber laser while the fiber laser has been twisted around the fiber spool. The fiber laser is stabilized without the influence of the variations in the environmental condition, since the fiber laser is winded around the fiber spool, and segregated from the outside environment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means to generate a femtosecond high output optical pulse with which a short optical pulse with a signal wavelength (SW) is efficiently converted into a short optical pulse with a wavelength of fold harmonics (FDW). SOLUTION: The apparatus for generating a high output optical pulse has a fiber oscillator 10 to generate signal light, an amplifying fiber 11 having nonlinear retardation and also serving as a soliton Raman compressor (SRC) to receive, amplify and compress the signal light and PPLN (periodic poling LiNbO 3 ) 20, a frequency converter to convert a frequency of an amplified optical pulse into a high output optical pulse. A dispersion-compensating fiber 18 compensates dispersion. Also, in the generating apparatus, a double-pass mode, in which an optical pulse is reflected with a Faraday rotation mirror (FRM) 19, is adopted. By obtaining energy from pump light injected from a pump 16, the signal light is amplified and compressed and the femtosecond high output optical pulse is obtained with a wavelength frequency-converted with the PPLN frequency converter 20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a modular, compact and widely-tunable laser system for efficiently generating a high peak ultrashort pulses. SOLUTION: System compactness is ensured by employing efficient fiber amplifiers, directly or indirectly pumped by diode lasers. Peak power handling capability of the fiber amplifiers is expanded by using optimizing pulse shapes as well as dispersively broadened pulses. Dispersive broadening is introduced by dispersive pulse stretching in the presence of self-phase modulation and gain, resulting in the formation of high-power parabolic pulses. After amplification, the dispersively stretched pulses can be recompressed to nearly band width limit by the implementation of another set of dispersive delay lines. To ensure a wide tunability of the whole system, Raman-shifting of the compact sources of ultrashort pulses in conjunction with frequency-conversion in nonlinear optical crystals can be implemented. Further, a positively dispersing optical amplifier and a Raman amplifier fiber are utilized.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the energy storage potential in an optical fiber amplifier and to produce peak power and pulse energy which are higher than those achievable in single-mode (SM) fibers before the onset of undesirable nonlinearity and gain saturation.SOLUTION: An optical amplification system comprises: a fiber oscillator 10 as a laser source generating an input beam having a nearly diffraction limited mode; a multi-mode fiber amplifier 12; a mode converter 14 receiving the input beam and converting the mode of the input beam to match a fundamental mode of the multi-mode fiber amplifier 12, and providing a mode-converted input beam to the multi-mode fiber amplifier 12; and a pump source 20 optically pumping the multi-mode fiber amplifier 12 to generate an intense amplified beam substantially in the fundamental mode.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a fiber minimized in an amount of polarization mode coupling and polarization mode dispersion and increased in a polarization maintaining function; a polarization maintaining fiber in which pump light is guided inside an inner cladding while a large outside cladding ensures a reduction of mode-coupling inside a fiber core; a system; and a fiber laser.SOLUTION: A polarization maintaining fiber includes: a multi-mode fiber core doped with a rare-earth doping material; a first cladding surrounding the multi-mode fiber core; and a stress producing region provided in the first cladding and producing birefringence which allows single-mode light to transmit through the multi-mode fiber core without causing waveform distortions in a range of a specified fiber length, in the multi-mode fiber core.