Anamorphotic solid-sate laser

US7573930B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Innovavent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Günter Hollemann · Jena, DE
• Peter Heist · Jena, DE
• Peter Oesterlin · Oebisfelde, DE
• Berthold Burghardt · Oettingen, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Kahlert · Göttingen, DE
• Klaus Brunwinkel · Göttingen, DE
• Henning Schmidt · Oebisfelde, DE
• Thomas Gabler · Weimar, DE
• Ulf Krause · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2009
• Expiry date: Jun 14, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S3/117
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A laser system, which is used in material processing to produce a radiation line of small width and uniform high intensity in the longitudinal direction, produces radiation that has different mode numbers M2 perpendicular to the propagation direction.