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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 provide a small-sized amplifier for ultrashort pulses of high energy. SOLUTION: This light pulse amplifying device has an excitation source 100 which generates an exciting light pulse with specific continuation, a signal source 130 which generates a signal light pulse, an optical combining means 160 which combines both the light pulses together to generate a combined light pulse, a parametric amplifier 170 having a quasi-phase matching crystal which photodetects the combined light pulse and amplifies the signal pulse with the energy of the exciting light pulse, and a compressor 180 which compresses the amplified signal pulse. The parametric amplifier 170 performs parametric chirp pulse amplification and the powerful amplification of the signal light pulse can be performed even with an exciting light pulse with low peak power, so the ultrashort light pulse with high energy is outputted from the compressor 180.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for time scanning using super short pulse width laser generating by minimum (micron) mechanical operation and provide a method for calibrating with high accuracy timing of the order of femtosecond. SOLUTION: The cavity length of one 620 of two lasers 610 and 620 is given a swing with a piezoelement PZT. Fabry-Perot etalon FP produces a timing pulse line from a single pulse of laser 610. A correlator 640 correlates the timing pulse line and the gate pulse from the laser 620 and produces a calibration time scale, which can be applied much in the field requiring a high grade high speed scanning and time calibration. For example, it can be applied for surface measurement, charge dynamics measurement of semiconductor, electric optical test of ultrahigh speed electron/photoelectric device, reflectivity measurement in optical time region, electric-optical sampling/oscilloscope, etc.
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PURPOSE: To eliminate instabilities from such use of additional cavity, for attaining a stable mode-locking by dividing into a first distance which is longer than a second distance and providing a saturation absorber which generates a passive mode-locking. CONSTITUTION: A saturation absorber 210 divides a vertical axis 204 of a cavity 200 into first and second distances. The distance from a first cavity mirror 206 to the saturation absorber 210 is selected so as to be n-times that from the saturation absorber 210 to a second cavity mirror 208. As a result, only when the pulse is moving from a gain medium 202 to the second cavity mirror 208 colliding with the reverse propagating pulse moving from the second cavity mirror 208 to the gain medium 202 at the saturation absorber 210, does a pulse pass by the saturation absorber 210 to generate mode-lock operation. Thereby, instabilities from such as in the case of the use of additional cavity is eliminated, so that stable mode-lock is attained.
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PURPOSE: To supply multiple level voltages which is suitable for respective loads and reduce power losses caused by the load currents of high-voltage drive elements. CONSTITUTION: A fundamental construction has a DC power supply 100, which outputs a 1st level voltage and a voltage multiplier increasing the 1st level voltage to a 2nd level voltage which is higher than the 1st level voltage. The voltage multiplier includes a switching means, which supplies the 1st level voltage and 2nd level voltage of the DC power supply to low-voltage drive elements and high-voltage elements respectively and capacitive devices 150 and 160, such as capacitors or voltage storage devices such as batteries, cells, etc., which are switched and connected by a switching means.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for the pulse laser treatment of a material.SOLUTION: A laser-based method for correcting a material comprises: a step of generating a pulse laser input beam having a pulse width shorter than about 100 ps; a step of forming a plurality of converged pulse beams having different polarizations or different wavelengths from the pulse laser input beam; a step of causing relative motions between the material and the converged pulse beams; and a step of controlling the formations and the motions so that a plurality of collinear pulse beams separated from each other in a depth direction and having different polarizations or different wavelengths may reach the material simultaneously during the motions.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide glass that enables a large-diameter core and/or high doping.SOLUTION: Various embodiments described herein include rare earth doped glass compositions that may be used in optical fibers and rods having large core sizes. Such optical fibers and rods may be employed in fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers. The index of refraction of the glass may be substantially uniform and may be close to that of silica in some embodiments. Feasible advantages of these features include reduction of formation of additional waveguides within the core, which becomes increasingly problematic with larger core sizes.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a fiber-based source for high-energy picosecond and nanosecond pulses. SOLUTION: By minimizing nonlinear energy limitations in fiber amplifiers, pulse energies close to the damage threshold of optical fibers can be generated. The implementation of optimized seed sources in conjunction with amplifier chains comprising at least one nonlinear fiber amplifier allows for the generation of near bandwidth-limited high-energy picosecond pulses. Optimized seed sources for high-energy pulsed fiber amplifiers comprise semiconductor lasers as well as stretched mode locked fiber lasers. The maximization of the pulse energies obtainable from fiber amplifiers further allows for the generation of high-energy ultraviolet and IR pulses at high repetition rates. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for generating femto-second high power optical pulses. SOLUTION: An apparatus for generating high power optical pulses includes: a fiber oscillator 10 for generating signal light; an amplifier fiber 11 with non-linear phase delay, which collects the signal light, and which serves as a Soliton Raman compressor (SRC) for amplifying and compressing it; and a periodical poled LiNbO 3 (PRLN) 20, which is a frequency converter for performing frequency conversion on amplified optical pulses to make high power optical pulses. Dispersion is compensated by a dispersion compensated fiber 18. The optical pulse is reflected by a Faraday rotation mirror (FRM) 19 and a double path is configured. The signal light is amplified and compressed by obtaining energy from pump light injected from a pump 16, and a femto-second high power optical pulse is obtained with a wavelength in which the frequency conversion is performed by the PRLN frequency converter 20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve stable operation of an ultra-compact modelocked fiber laser generating short optical pulses generally without use of any non-fiber, intra-cavity polarization-manipulating elements. SOLUTION: Once the laser is modelocked in one of the polarization axes of the highly-birefringent fiber, the degeneracy of the polarization axis is eliminated and cw oscillation along the other polarization axis is also prevented. Without a polarization-dependent loss in the cavity, the modelocked polarization axis is indeterminate, i.e., modelocking can occur on either of the polarization axes. However, the introduction of only a small polarization dependent loss is sufficient to ensure the reliable start-up of modelocking on only the low-loss axis. Such a small polarization dependent loss can be introduced by tightly coiling the highly-birefringent fiber, which generates a higher loss along the fast axis; thus, reliable modelocked operation along the slow axis is obtained. Alternatively, single polarization operation is obtained by employing a saturable absorber with a polarization-dependent loss or by introducing polarization-manipulating elements external to the laser cavity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT