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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4782494 | Method of providing continuous lasing operation The method of producing at least quasi-continuous lasing operation between initial and terminal lasing states comprising the steps of selecting a laser medium and cavity configuration (lasing frequency) with the laser medium containing upconverting materi... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4782491 | Ion doped, fused silica glass fiber laser An optical fiber laser comprising a nearly pure fused silica glass, neodymium doped active core within a cavity in the form of a single mode optical fiber. The gain cavity is end pumped at a nominal wavelength of 0.8 microns and its length and neodymium c... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4777638 | Lasing composition A composition of matter is provided which is capable of producing laser energy on being pumped. The composition comprises a first chemical entity and a second chemical entity, wherein the first and second entities form a charge bearing molecule when excit... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4756003 | Laser diode pumped solid state laser A neodymium or other rare earth doped solid state laser is pumped by a matched high efficiency laser diode, including a diode array and a multi-spatial mode extended emitter diode, resulting in a compact, high efficiency and long lifetime laser assembly. ... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4730886 | Fiber laser sensor A fiber laser sensor is comprised of two fiber lasers which are each optically coupled to a third fiber so that energy is exchanged between each of the laser fibers and the third fiber. The coupling is accomplished by arranging the laser fibers parallel t... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4712075 | Optical amplifier An optical amplifier particularly suitable for use in amplifying signals carried on optical fiber in a select communication band. The amplifier comprises a resonant optical waveguide cavity which has a core containing an active gain material with given ab... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4664849 | Optical materials from intercalation of polyvalent cations in beta double prime alumina Beta double prime alumina is provided having a sensible amount of at least one polyvalent cationic species intercalated therein. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, such beta double prime alumina is provided having trivalent and/or tetravalent cati... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4660203 | Soft X-ray laser using pumping of 3P and 4P levels of He-like and H-like ions X-ray laser method and apparatus for producing coherent radiation at, for example, energies of at least 40 eV, using Be-like Cr, N-like Ni, He-like Na, B-like Cr, Be-like Mn or similar multiply ionized species to pump appropriate high energy transitions i... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4628513 | Tunable indium UV anti-Stokes Raman laser An anti-Stokes Raman laser is disclosed which is tunable in the ultraviolet (UV) by utilizing ground state neutral indium atoms as the lasing medium. A photodissociator is utilized to create a metastable indium population and a tunable dye laser is subseq... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4627066 | Excimer laser pumped by dissociative recombination A preferred embodiment of an excimer laser has a heat pipe oven adapted to raise sodium therein to a temperature of about 800 Kelvin and thereby vaporize the sodium at a pressure of no more than about 0.1 atmosphere, the heat pipe oven having substantiall... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4606034 | Enhanced laser power output The efficiency of pulsed laser systems is enhanced substantially by injecting a minor amount of radiation energy into the system Ɗt seconds prior to the emergence of the laser pulse. The degree of power enhancement is a function of both radiation wavelen... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4589113 | Short wavelength laser A short wavelength laser (28) is provided that is driven by conventional-laser pulses (30, 31). A multiplicity of panels (32), mounted on substrates (34), are supported in two separated and alternately staggered facing and parallel arrays disposed along a... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4551265 | Fluorescent dyestuffs, processes for their preparation and their use as laser dyestuffs Fluorescent dyestuffs of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R and R1 independently of one another represent hydrogen, a salt-forming cation, an alkyl radical with 1 to 16 C atoms or an aryl or aralkyl radical which is optionally substitu... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4535023 | Process for fabricating cryogenic targets and targets made thereby A process for patterning a target for lasing at X-ray wavelengths from materials which cannot be readily shaped. A substrate of one material is placed in a gaseous atmosphere of another material, and the substrate is cooled below the freezing point of the... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4500995 | Bromine anti-stokes raman laser An anti-Stokes Raman laser which uses a metastable level of bromine is provided. A medium of molecules each of which contains at least one bromine atom is provided. Means are provided for dissociating the bromine atom from the molecules so that a majority... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4486884 | Tunable anti-Stokes Raman laser An anti-Stokes Raman laser is disclosed which is tunable over a range of 10-70 cm-1. An alkali halide is used as the lasing medium and a metastable halide population inversion is created with respect to the ground state of the halide by selecti... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4233570 | Tunable, rare earth-doped solid state lasers Laser apparatus comprising combinations of an excimer pump laser and a rare earth-doped solid matrix, utilizing the 5d-4f radiative transition in a rare earth ion to produce visible and ultra-violet laser radiation with high overall efficiency in selected... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4205278 | Multiple excitation regenerative amplifier inertial confinement system The invention relates to apparatus and methods for producing high intensity laser radiation generation which is achieved through an optical amplifier-storage ring design. One or two synchronized, counterpropagating laser pulses are injected into a regener... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4205268 | Neutrino communication arrangement A communication system comprising an emitter and a receiver (detector) utilizing modulated beams of neutrino and antineutrino waves as information carriers between the emitter and the receiver. Generation of modulated neutrino and antineutrino beams in th... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4139342 | Dye impregnated plastics for laser applications A process for doping laser dyes into plastic hosts is disclosed. This process allows the control of the doping profiles in order to achieve profiles, other than uniform, necessary for effective laser mode control, volumetric pumping, and stable resonators... | 02/13/1979 |
| 3937554 | Holograms impregnated with laser active material A hologram device carrying at least one hologram on a light sensitive medium in which the part of the light sensitive medium which carries the hologram thereon is impregnated with a laser active material.... | 02/10/1976 |
