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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120033694 | BROADENING OF RARE EARTH ION EMISSION BANDWIDTH IN PHOSPHATE BASED LASER GLASSES Disclosed are the use of phosphate-based glasses as a solid state laser gain medium, in particular, the invention relates to broadening the emission bandwidth of rare earth ions used as lasing ions in a phosphate-based glass composition, where the broadening of the emis... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033693 | REAR EARTH ALUMINOBOROSILICATE GLASS COMPOSITION The invention relates to aluminoborosilicate-based glasses suitable for use as a solid laser medium. In particular, these aluminoborosilicate-based laser glasses exhibit broad emission bandwidths of rare earth lasing ions. Although not entirely understood, the broadenin... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110206078 | P-ELEMENT DOPED LASER MEDIUM APPARATUS AND METHOD A glass composition for use as a laser medium, a method for producing the glass composition, and a laser apparatus including the glass composition are provided. The glass composition includes a host glass; a 3p component having a concentration of about 5 mole percent to... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110069728 | Diode Pumped Ytterbium Doped Laser Diode pumped, ytterbium doped glass or glass ceramic lasers are provided. A laser source is provided comprising an optical pump, a glass or glass ceramic gain media, a wavelength conversion device, and an output filter. The gain media comprises a ytterbium doped glass o... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110058577 | Thulium and/or holmium doped silicated glasses for two micron lasers A laser glass fiber with a core of the fiber composition, comprising a silicate glass host, one or more glass network modifiers, one or more glass network intermediators, and Thulium ions, Holmium ions, or a combination of Thulium ions and Holmium ions. The fiber emits ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20100202481 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES WITH PHOSPHOSILICATE GLASS A light-emitting device is provided which includes a gain medium having an optically-active phosphosilicate glass, wherein the phosphosilicate glass includes at least one active ion dopant and from about 1 to 30 mol % of phosphorus oxide. The phosphorous oxide may be pr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100098125 | SELF-POWERED RANDOM SCATTERING LASER DEVICES The present disclosure relates to a self-powered, random scattering laser generating device comprising a housing comprises an opening and an inner chamber, at least one quantum dot positioned inside the inner chamber, a high-energy emitting source positioned within the ... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100061415 | OPTICAL FIBRE MATERIAL COMPRISING SILICA-BASED GLASS WITH REDUCED PHOTO DARKENING The invention relates to a waveguide laser or amplifier material comprising a silica glass host material, one or more rare earth elements in total concentration CRE at. %, one or more network modifier elements selected from the group of tri- or penta-valent atoms of the... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100001179 | METHOD OF PROCESSING ROCK WITH LASER AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME An object is to provide a method capable of boring a borehole even when quartz glass or silicon dioxide is deposited as molten dross by laser irradiation. A laser irradiation position of a workpiece is irradiated with a laser having wavelength of 1.2 μm or longer and a... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100000485 | IGNITION DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE An ignition device for an internal combustion engine includes at least one pump light source which supplies a pump light. In addition, a laser device is provided which generates a laser pulse for emission into a combustion chamber. A light guide device transmits the pum... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20080315123 | Optical component and method for its production To obtain an optical component having excellent secondary optical nonlinear properties by irradiating a surface and/or inside of glass having at least one member selected from Ni, Fe, V, Cu, Cr and Mn as a heat source material for absorbing and converting a laser beam t... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080240186 | Polygonal cross-section laser rod for low-cost flashlamp-pumped laser A laser rod and methods of manufacturing a plurality of laser rods such that each laser rod has two polished end surfaces and an optical axis that extends between the two polished end surfaces. The laser rod includes a gain material component that has a substantially pr... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080212629 | Ultra-low heat laser An ultra-low heat laser that does not rely on florescence cooling. Generally, the inventive laser includes a pump source operable at a pump frequency and a gain medium disposed to receive energy from the source and lase at a frequency close to the pump frequency. In the... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080205475 | UNSTABLE RESONATOR WITH VARIABLE OUTPUT COUPLING Through the use of a relatively inexpensive third mirror on a novel folded hybrid unstable resonator configuration, the optimum output coupling for a given laser design can be explored quickly and easily with a minimum of intracavity mirror alignment. No changes in eith... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080037603 | Rod-Type Solid Laser Apparatus In a rod-type solid laser apparatus, a laser rod 1 is held by a rod holder 5, the rod holder 5 is held in a recessed portion 40 formed in an adjust ring 7, and the adjust ring 7 is mounted on a cavity container 4. The rod... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070242714 | Solid-state laser with spatially-tailored active ion concentration using valence conversion with surface masking and method A material having a surface and a dopant in the material distributed whereby the material has a spatially variant optical flux density profile. In accordance with the invention, tailored non-uniform gain profiles within a Yb:YAG laser component (rod, slab, disc, etc.) a... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20050213624 | Low phonon energy gain medium and related active devices Using sol-gel techniques, an optical gain medium has been fabricated comprising a glass ceramic host material that includes clusters of crystalline oxide material, especially tin oxide, and that is doped with active ions concentrated at the clusters. The active ions are... | 09/29/2005 |
