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Laser-diode-pumped solid-state laser

US5287381A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 11, 1992
Grant dateFeb 15, 1994
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Expiry dateMar 11, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S3/1673
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A laser-diode-pumped solid-state laser includes a semiconductor laser for emitting a pumping laser beam, a solid-state laser crystal of an ion crystal of a paramagnetic substance doped with neodymium, for producing a laser beam in response to being pumped by said pumping laser beam, a resonator for oscillating the laser beam produced by said solid-state laser crystal, and an optical wavelength converter in said resonator for converting the wavelength of the oscillated laser beam into another wavelength. The solid-state laser crystal has a neodymium ion concentration higher than 3 at %. The solid-state laser oscillates stably in a single longitudinal mode at all times to produce a highly intensive laser beam of short wavelength.

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