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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127464 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS A light source apparatus that emits pulsed light includes an optical resonator and a modulator. The optical resonator has an optical gain medium that amplifies light and an optical waveguide. The modulator modulates an intensity of the light in the optical resonator. Th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106579 | Precise Broadband Frequency Modulated Laser A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium are described for a tunable laser source that produces a desired frequency modulated optical waveform with a precision within 0.01 percent over a bandwidth greater than about 50 gigaHertz. An apparatus includes a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106578 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER GENERATING DEVICE A wavelength-tunable external cavity laser generating device is provided. The wavelength-tunable external cavity laser generating device includes a reflection-type multi-mode interferometer, an optical amplifier disposed between the reflection-type multi-mode interferom... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120039346 | Feedback-enhanced self-Injection locking of lasers to optical resonators Techniques and devices that lock and stabilize a laser to an optical resonator via self-injection locking based on a reflection feedback. A whispering gallery mode optical resonator can be implemented to provide both the optical filtering and injection feedback based on... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033688 | Single longitudinal mode fiber laser apparatus The present invention provides a single frequency fiber laser apparatus. The fiber laser apparatus includes a Faraday rotator mirror. A piece of erbium doped fiber is inside the laser cavity. A wavelength selective coupler is connected to the erbium doped fiber. A pump ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE OPTICAL WAVE LENGTHS Optical gratings that perform a number of functions at various wavelengths are formed by various methods that preserve spectral information within a wavelength band, the functions including: coupling radiation from one waveguide (7a3) to another ( 02/09/2012 | |
| 20120026504 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SAME A light source apparatus includes an optical resonator formed by an optical amplification medium and an optical switch. The optical switch includes a saturable absorber and changes its transmittance or reflectance when receiving an optical pulse emitted from a light irr... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120014398 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER MODULE Provided is a wavelength-tunable external cavity laser module. The wavelength-tunable external cavity laser module includes: a gain medium generating light; an optical waveguide combined with the gain medium and including a Bragg grating and a thin film heater adjusting... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014399 | Grating External-Cavity Laser and Quasi-Synchronous Tuning Method Thereof A method for quasi-synchronous tuning of laser wavelength or frequency of grating external-cavity laser and a corresponding laser are provided. A grating or mirror is rotated around a quasi-synchronous tuning point (Pq) to achieve the quasi-synchronous tuning... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008650 | HYBRID INTEGRATED TUNEABLE LASER A hybrid integrated tuneable optical laser device, suitable for tuning to different wavelengths via a piezo micromotor (6) controlled optical filter (4) in an external cavity. Once the laser is fixed at a selected wavelength, no power is required to be app... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002687 | Laser System A method and apparatus may comprise a line narrowed pulsed excimer or molecular fluorine gas discharge laser system which may comprise a seed laser oscillator producing an output comprising a laser output light beam of pulses which may comprise a first gas discharge exc... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RAMAN CO-PUMPS An example Raman co-pump apparatus includes a control module for controlling output received from at least one of a first laser and a second laser, said output of said first laser and said second laser for combining into a co-pump output, wherein the control module is c... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002686 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR A WAVELENGTH TUNING SOURCE An apparatus and source arrangement for filtering an electromagnetic radiation can be provided which may include at least one spectral separating arrangement configured to physically separate one or more components of the electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency o... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110310916 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE A semiconductor laser module includes a semiconductor device including a semiconductor laser and a bending waveguide through which a laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser propagates, a beam splitter splitting the laser light into a first laser light and a sec... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304853 | WAVELENGTH SWEEPING LIGHT SOURCE AND IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME A light source apparatus includes a laser oscillator equipped with a first optical resonator, a plurality of second optical resonators including input portions respectively connected in parallel to the first optical resonator, a plurality of light extraction units confi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292955 | TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE A tunable LD with reduced number of the butt joint is disclosed. The tunable LD includes the reflector and a waveguide core. The reflector includes a plurality of segments each having a grating region and a space region adjacent to the grating region. The waveguide core... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292954 | AUTOMATED BANDWIDTH / WAVELENGTH ADJUSTMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHORT PULSE LASERS AND OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for adjusting a wavelength, bandwidth or both. Such systems and methods may be applicable to laser beams within a laser cavity or amplifier. For some embodiments, such systems and methods may be used to allow a user to set... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292953 | Tunable Multi-Wavelength Semiconductor Laser Array For Optical Communications Based On Wavelength Division Multiplexing Techniques, devices and systems for optical communications based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) that use tunable multi-wavelength laser transmitter modules.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110274126 | METHOD OF SWITCHING LASER EMISSION OF A SOLID STATE LASER BETWEEN DIFFERENT EMISSION WAVELENGTHS AND CORRESPONDING SOLID STATE LASER DEVICE The present invention relates to a method of switching laser emission of a solid state laser between different emission wavelengths, said different emission wavelengths being based on different electronic transitions in a solid state laser medium (3) of the solid... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110261843 | GRATING EXTERNAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS TUNING METHOD THEREOF A method for quasi-synchronous tuning of wavelength or frequency of grating external-cavity semiconductor laser and a corresponding semiconductor laser are provided. A grating or mirror is rotated around a quasi-synchronous tuning point (Pq) as rotation center, so as to... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255561 | APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE A WAVELENGTH-SWEPT ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RADIATION Exemplary embodiments of apparatus according to the present disclosure are provided. For example, an apparatus for providing electromagnetic radiation to a structure can be provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus can provide at least one electromagnetic rad... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249690 | EXTERNAL CAVITY WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LASER DEVICE AND OPTICAL OUTPUT MODULE In an external cavity wavelength tunable laser device including an external cavity (20) which includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (2) and performs laser oscillation operation by feeding back external light, a wavelength tunable mirror (7) hav... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243159 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TUNABLE PULSED LASER SOURCE A tunable pulsed laser source comprising a seed source adapted to generate a seed signal and an optical circulator. The optical circulator includes a first port coupled to the seed source, a second port, and a third port. The laser source also includes an amplitude modu... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243160 | FREQUENCY TUNEABLE LASER DEVICE A frequency tuneable or chirped laser device is described that includes a laser cavity formed from a plurality of optical components. The optical components include a laser source for generating a beam of light, a spectral tuning element and one or more further optical ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110235659 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER A semiconductor laser includes a light emission end facet; a first optical waveguide extending in a predetermined optical-axis direction, the first optical waveguide being optically coupled to the light emission end facet; a ring resonator having a plurality of periodic... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235660 | DRIVER CIRCUIT FOR TUNABLE LD An LD driver is disclosed where the power dissipation is reduced without enlarging the circuit scale. The LD driver, which drives a tunable LD including a SG-DGB region, a CSG-DBR region, and an SOA region, includes a DC/DC converter connected to current sources or volt... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228800 | METHOD FOR TUNING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER A method for tuning a semiconductor laser including a plurality of wavelength selection portions, each of which has a periodic wavelength characteristic, including: controlling a value of a refractive index controlling means of the wavelength selection portions to achie... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222564 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TERAHERTZ RADIATION Apparatus and methods for generating radiation via difference frequency generation (DFG). In one exemplary implementation, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) has a significant second-order nonlinear susceptibility (χ(2)) integrated in an active region of the QCL.... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222563 | WAVELENGTH TUNING SOURCE BASED ON A ROTATABLE REFLECTOR An apparatus and source arrangement for filtering an electromagnetic radiation can be provided which may include at least one spectral separating arrangement configured to physically separate one or more components of the electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency o... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216325 | Methods and Apparatus for Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography In one embodiment of the invention, a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) in a laser ring is chosen to provide low polarization-dependent gain (PDG) and a booster semiconductor optical amplifier, outside of the ring, is chosen to provide high polarization-dependent ga... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216789 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE The present invention is directed to a semiconductor laser device comprising a first resonator section for resonating an optical resonator signal for providing an optical output signal at an output of said laser device, wherein said first resonator section is arranged f... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211599 | THERMAL CONTROL OF OPTICAL FILTER WITH LOCAL SILICON FRAME Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a thermally controlled optical filter comprises a frame coupled to an etalon where the frame includes a resistive thermal device disposed on the frame to obtain thermal measurements of the etalon during operation. The... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110200062 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE LASER A method of controlling a wavelength-tunable laser selecting an oscillation wavelength with a combination of a plurality of wavelength selection portions of which wavelength peak is different from each other, comprising: a first step of confirming a control direction of... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110182305 | Small Packaged Tunable Laser with Beam Splitter According to one embodiment, the present application includes a tunable laser configured in a small package. The tunable laser includes a housing with a volume formed by exterior walls. An electrical input interface is positioned at the first end of the housing and conf... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170110 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS A wavelength-tunable light source apparatus includes a first light source apparatus and a second light source apparatus. The first light source apparatus is capable of changing an oscillation wavelength and includes a resonator. The resonator includes an optical amplifi... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110150011 | RESONANTLY PUMPED TM DOPED CYRSTALLINE LASERS A resonantly pumped, trivalent thulium ion (Tm3+) doped, crystal laser with improved efficiency is disclosed. Embodiments are pumped from the 3H6 ground state manifold to the 1st excited 3F4 state manifold by photons with wavelengths between 1.4 and 2.2 microns and lase... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150016 | TUNABLE LASER MODULE Provided is a tunable laser module emitting an optical signal having high speed, high power and wideband wavelength tuning. The tunable laser module includes a laser array configured to emit an optical signal having a plurality of different lasing wavelengths, a tempera... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150014 | ANALOG TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR TUNABLE LASERS An analog circuit including a voltage divider for providing a first voltage corresponding to an actual temperature of said thermal tuning element of the laser; an analog comparator generating an analog output current for comparing the first voltage with a reference volt... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110150015 | Generation of frequency-pre-selectable radiation by using more than one cascaded frequency conversion processes of resonantly enhanced beams The invention describes methods and apparatus for the generation of laser radiation with pre-selectable frequency, which could be bigger or smaller than its fundamental beam frequency, through a combination of two or more intracavity frequency conversion processes of tw... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142085 | Coupled Cavity Laser Diode for Generating Chaotic Signals A chaotic light generator device comprises laser structures integrated on a common substrate. Each laser structure comprises a ridge of light amplifying material that forms a waveguide extending between at least partly reflective surfaces. Each laser structure comprises... | 06/16/2011 |
