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Laser system and amplifying system to produce single-frequency laser irradiation

US6188708A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Contraves Space AG · CH

Inventors

Nikolnus Schmitt · Munich, DE
Max Koeniger · Munich, DE
Peter Unger · Stockholm, SE
Klaus Pribil · Glattbrugg, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 22, 1999
Grant date	Feb 13, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 22, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01S5/4006
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a single-frequency laser and amplifier system, the radiation of a single-frequency, diode-pumped solid-state laser, preferably of a low power microcrystal laser or a monolithic ring-laser consisting of rare-earth-doped or transition-metal-doped crystal or glass materials, is coupled into a semiconductor amplifier chip (preferably GaAlAs, InGaAs or InGaAsP). The material system and the epitaxial structuring of the amplifier chip are selected to adapt it to the emission wavelength of the solid-state laser, so that it amplifies the single-frequency radiation of the solid-state laser and therefore generates an output beam which is intensified with respect to the coupled-in laser radiation.

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