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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide glass which allows a large aperture core and/or high doping. SOLUTION: There is included a glass composition which is doped with rare earth and may be used by a rod and an optical fiber of a large core size. The optical fiber and the rod may be used for a fiber laser and a fiber amplifier. The refractive index of the glass may be substantially uniform, or may be close to that of silica depending on the embodiment. Available advantages from the features include the suppression of the formation of an additional waveguide path in a core, thus becoming more important as the size of a core becomes large. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a miniaturized and inexpensive high output chirped pulse amplifier of 100 mW-10 W, and a compressor suitable for the same. SOLUTION: This high output chirped pulse amplifier which generates ultrashort pulses includes a generation source 10 for generating expanded pulses which are expanded pulse lights, an output amplifying stage 20 for amplifying the expanded pulses, the compressor 40 for receiving the expanded pulses from the output amplifying stage 20 to compress them, wherein the output amplifying stage 20 has a double cladding fiber and a pump. The compressor 40 is preferable to have a fiber grid for compressing laser pulse signals into the duration of less than a threshold in a nonlinear effect, and a diffraction grating for accepting pulse signals compressed through the fiber grid in order to further compress the pulse signals. The chirped pulse amplifying action of cladding-pumped fiber allows the chirped pulse amplification of high output to be performed while it is miniaturized and inexpensive. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a one-step process for producing and depositing size-selected nanoparticles onto a substrate surface using ultrafast pulsed laser ablation of solid target materials. SOLUTION: This system includes a pulse laser, an optical system, and a vacuum chamber. The pulsed laser has various pulse duration ranging from a few femtoseconds to a few tens of picoseconds. The optical system processes a laser beam such that the beam is focused onto the target surface with an appropriate average energy density and an appropriate energy density distribution. The target and the substrate are installed inside the vacuum chamber, and the background gases and their pressures are appropriately adjusted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a passively mode-locked fiber laser adapted to generate chirped parabolic pulses. SOLUTION: The passively mode-locked fiber laser comprises a laser oscillator that has in-cavity dispersion and generates substantially linearly-chirped parabolic pulses at, at least one point in the oscillator, and a rare-earth-doped gain fiber. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a porous separator member which is thin, easily manufactured, and manufactured at low cost by arranging separator precursor solution containing a solid granular material and polymer binder at a prescribed ratio on an electrode and changing this separator precursor solution into a porous composite separator to be jointed with the electrode. SOLUTION: A thin layer of separator precursor solution is printed on an electrode surface of an electrochemical battery electrode. Second, the thin layer of the separator precursor solution is vulcanized on the electrode, so as to be changed into a microporous composite separator member. The separator precursor solution is constituted of an ink composed of a solid granular material, dispersed in polymer binder solution dissolved in appropriate solvent. It is preferable to use silica aerosol, which is a main component of a print separator for the solid granular material. In the separator precursor solution, the ratio of the binder to the solid granular material is selected between 5/95 and 50/50.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To establish a method to manufacture a separator for a chemical battery of porous nature which is of thin construction and is easily manufacturable at a low cost. SOLUTION: A thin layer of a separator precursor substance solution is printed on one of the surfaces of the electrodes 20 and 30 of a chemical battery 10, and dried and hardened to generate a composite separator structure 25 of fine porous nature, and thus the intended composite separator layer 25 of porous nature for use in chemical battery is accomplished. This procedure permits manufacturing a thin, flexible composite separator 25 joined rigidly with the electrodes 20 and 30 as an underlay for the separator 25.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized high output chirp pulse amplifier device of 100mW-10W and a compressor suitable for the same device. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a generation source 10 generating an expansion pulse being expanded pulse light, an output amplifier stage 20 amplifying the expansion pulse and the compressor 40 receiving the expansion pulse from the output amplifier stage 20 and compressing it, and the output amplifier stage 20 is provided with a double clad fiber and a pump, and the device is the high output chirp pulse amplifier device generating a super short pulse. The compressor 40 is preferred to be provided with a fiber grating compressing a laser pulse signal to a duration time of a threshold value or below of a non-linear effect and a diffraction grating receiving the pulse signal compressed by the fiber grating for further compressing the pulse signal. By a chirp pulse amplifier action of a clad pump fiber, chirp pulse amplification of a high output though it is miniaturized and inexpensive is made possible.
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PURPOSE: To stabilize an ultra-short pulse source against environmental variation by reflecting laser energy along an optical axis passing through a gain medium for amplifying the laser energy and outputting the laser energy generated in a cavity. CONSTITUTION: The passively modelocked fiber laser 100 comprises a laser cavity 200, a pump means 300 for injecting laser energy, and a gain medium 202 for amplifying energy in the cavity 200. An energy reflecting means, i.e., a cavity mirror 206, arranged along an optical axis 204 passing through the gain medium 202 reflects a signal light in the cavity 200. The cavity mirror 206 also serves as a laser energy output means for reflecting the laser energy into the laser cavity 200 and passing the remaining laser energy as an output energy.
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PURPOSE: To provide a method and device for controlling the wavelength of laser radiation using a nonlinear effect. CONSTITUTION: The device relates to a laser beam having a radiation wavelength controlled by a nonlinear effect such as a soliton fiber laser. The radiation wavelength of a laser is generally confined to the center of a gain profile but, by generating a gain control with the use of a nonlinear effect, a comparatively wide bandwidth can be controlled. For example, all nonlinear effects within a laser cavity 200 such as soliton self-frequency fluctuation and cross phase modulation, can be utilized for the purpose of securing a marked gain control and a wavelength adjustment area for a wide bandwidth. As a result, the nonlinear adjustment is achieved.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve laser-based modification of target material of a workpiece while achieving an improvement in processing throughput and/or quality.SOLUTION: Laser pulses are focused and directed to a region of the workpiece at a sufficiently high pulse repetition rate, so that material is efficiently removed from the region and a quantity of unwanted material within the region, proximate to the region, or both is reduced relative to a quantity obtainable at a lower repetition rate. In one embodiment, an ultrashort pulse laser system may include at least one of a fiber amplifier and fiber laser. Various embodiments are suitable for performing at least one of dicing, cutting, scribing, and forming features on or within a semiconductor substrate. Workpiece materials may include metals, inorganic or organic dielectrics, or optional materials to be micromachined with femtosecond/or picosecond pulses, or with up to several nanosecond pulse width in several embodiments.