Apparatus for a power laser including solid optical bench

US5351263A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Michael von Borstel · Pleidelsheim, DE
• Michael Hacker · Sinsheim, DE
• Heinz-Jurgen Prokop · Ratingen, DE
• Reinhard Wollermann-Windgasse · Lambach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 27, 1994
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S3/076
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Known power lasers have outstanding electrical, optical and mechanical properties, in spite of different temperature conditions during switching on and during operation. However, they are expensive. These properties are retained, despite cheaper production costs in that, starting from a solid monolithic optical bench, several mirror blocks and intermediate blocks are mechanically rigidly connected to this, and are shaped such that they do not deflect during chip-removing machining, and those bores necessary for the laser path are only then provided.