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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7197830 | Alignment quality indicator An alignment tool includes a base, a column, and a ball. The base is manufactured from a material with a high material density and includes a crosshair. The column is machined out of an optical transparent material and is attached to the base. The ball is positioned... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7180645 | Quantum-state-generating apparatus, Bell measurement apparatus, quantum gate apparatus, and method for evaluating fidelity of quantum gate An apparatus for generating a quantum state of a two-qubit system including two qubits, each qubit being represented by a particle which invariably travels through one of two paths, includes a quantum gate composed of an interferometer for implementing an-interactio... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7058093 | Q-switched, cavity dumped laser systems for material processing This disclosure discusses techniques for obtaining wavelength selected simultaneously super pulsed Q-switched and cavity dumped laser pulses utilizing high optical damage threshold electro-optic modulators, maintaining a zero DC voltage bias on the CdTe electro-opti... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6951411 | Light beam generation, and focusing and redirecting device An improved light beam generation and focusing device (15, 50) has a light source (16, 51) constructed and arranged to emit at least one beam of light (20), and a lens assembly (17, 19, 56) constructed and arranged to focus the at least o... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950449 | Passively Q-switched laser The present passively Q-switched laser comprises a condensing optical system for condensing a laser beam emitted from a laser light source onto the surface of the solid-state laser medium. The surface of a solid-state laser medium is disposed off the condensation po... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6728282 | Engineering the gain/loss profile of intersubband optical devices having heterogeneous cascades An optical device includes a stack of at least two different intersubband (ISB) optical sub-devices in which the gain/loss profiles of the individual ISB sub-devices are mutually adapted, or engineered, so as to generate a predetermined overall function for the comb... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6650575 | Programmable delay circuit within a content addressable memory An apparatus having an output register coupled to a content addressable memory (CAM) array. The output register may be configured to output data based on a delayed clock signal. A programmable delay circuit may be coupled to receive a reference clock sign... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6504171 | Chirped multi-well active region LED A light emitting device and a method of increasing the light output of the device utilize a chirped multi-well active region to increase the probability of radiative recombination of electrons and holes within the light emitting active layers of the activ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6292504 | Dual cavity laser resonator Dual-cavity resonators that may be optimized for multiple functions (operating modes). The dual-cavity resonators provide a first set of operating modes that exhibits low repetition rates (5-20 Hz), high energy per pulse, and long, pulse-width, and a seco... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6175578 | Optical device The object of the present invention is to provide an optical device which has obliterated, by the use of a nonlinear optical crystal, the need for a complicated adjustment operation of positions as seen in an optical device used for obtaining an output li... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6078606 | Multi-color, multi-pulse laser A multi-color, multi-pulse laser operating at a number of wavelengths is provided with a like number of cavities to produce a like number of output pulses from a single pumping pulse. The spacing between the pulses is easily controlled by controlling the ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5953354 | Laser resonator optical alignment A laser resonator includes a laser medium having opposite end faces inclined at Brewster's angle and disposed in optical alignment between spaced-apart and tilted first and second optical elements. A method for adjusting the optical alignment includes pum... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5654974 | Passive Q-switch using multiple saturable absorber materials A laser resonant cavity employs a dye sheet Q-switch disposed to receive the output of a laser and a Cr4+ :YAG Q-switch disposed adjacent the dye sheet Q-switch. Disadvantageous aspects of either Q-switch when used alone are eliminated, resulti... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5488619 | Ultracompact Q-switched microlasers and related method An ultracompact array of microlasers in which Q-switching is performed by intracavity electroabsorptive modulators, to provide an array of relatively high-power beams with good beam quality and other beam characteristics. The microlasers are optically pum... | 01/30/1996 |
| 4971415 | Multibeam emitting device In a multibeam emitting device provided with a plurality of semiconductive light-emitting elements monolithically formed on a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor light-emitting elements are formed so that the directions of emission of the lights em... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4872181 | Laser resonator with laser medium exhibiting thermally induced birefringence A laser resonator generates a polarized output beam with a laser medium exhibiting thermally induced birefringence and a Y-shaped resonant cavity. A lasing axis extends between a first side and a second side of the laser medium, Radiation transmitted out ... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4323859 | Chanelled substrate double heterostructure lasers In fabricating a III-V compound, for example, GaAs, having a layered structure a first layer is grown on a planar substrate by a vapor deposition process adapted to produce differential growth while a subsequent layer is grown by a deposition process whic... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4136316 | Multi-color, activator-activator laser Wavelength diversity in solid state lasers is achieved by providing a single laser rod comprising a host material and two different active ion species wherein each of the active ions also sensitizes the other active ion. The invention herein described was... | 01/23/1979 |
| 3970967 | Controllable ultrafast light shutter A controllable ultrafast light shutter utilizes two sets of Pockels cell-polarizer combinations, one set is used to open the light switch, the other to close the switch allowing the selection of laser pulse duration in the picosecond region. The opening a... | 07/20/1976 |
