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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009705 | Fiber MOPA system without stimulated brillouin scattering Methods and systems for increasing the threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering are described. A seed source may generate one or more chirped seed pulses characterized by a pulse duration τ, and a frequency chirp. The pulse duration τ may be greater than abou... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7529281 | Light source with precisely controlled wavelength-converted average power Control of average wavelength-converted power and/or wavelength converted pulse energy is described. One or more seed pulses may be generated and amplified with an optical amplifier to produce one or more amplified pulses. The amplified pulses may be wavelength conv... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7469081 | Reducing thermal load on optical head Methods and apparatus for reducing a thermal load on an optical head are described. Waste light is captured at one or more locations in the optical head and directed to a location that is thermally isolated from the one or more locations in the optical head using or... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7443903 | Laser apparatus having multiple synchronous amplifiers tied to one master oscillator Laser apparatus and methods involving multiple amplified outputs are disclosed. A laser apparatus may include a master oscillator, a beam splitter coupled to the master oscillator, and two or more output heads optically coupled to the beam splitter. The beam splitte... | 10/28/2008 |