GENERATION OF HIGH-POWER SPATIALLY-RESTRUCTURABLE SPECTRALLY-TUNABLE BEAMS IN A MULTI-ARM-CAVITY VECSEL-BASED LASER SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A laser source comprising:
- a laser cavity network including first and second spatially-distinct cavity arms and a collinear portion, wherein the first and second spatially-distinct cavity arms share the collinear portion,at least one of the first and second cavity arms containing, intracavity,a corresponding gain medium including one of (i) a VECSEL-based laser gain medium, (ii) a solid-state gain medium, and (iii) a fiber amplifier and configured to provide amplification of light at a corresponding wavelength;
a first optical system, disposed across an axis of the at least one of the first and second cavity arms, to either refract or reflect light incident thereon while transforming a transverse distribution of said light that has traversed it, anda second optical system disposed across said axis and characterized by optical losses, at the corresponding wavelength, that are non-uniformly distributed across the second optical system, the second optical system disposed between the corresponding gain medium and the first optical system;
wherein said laser source is configured to maintain, in operation, intracavity generation of light at the corresponding wavelength, said light havinga first transverse mode distribution in a first portion of the laser cavity network between the gain medium and the second optical system,a second transverse mode distribution in a second portion of the laser cavity network between the second and first optical systems, anda third transverse mode distribution in a third portion of the laser cavity network, the third portion being a remaining portion of the laser cavity network;
wherein the first, second, and third transverse mode distributions being different from one another.
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Abstract
A collinear T-cavity VECSEL system generating intracavity Hermite-Gaussian modes at multiple wavelengths, configured to vary each of these wavelengths individually and independently. A mode converter element and/or an astigmatic mode converter is/are aligned intracavity to reversibly convert the Gaussian modes to HG modes to Laguerre-Gaussian modes, the latter forming the system output having any of the wavelengths provided by the spectrum resulting from nonlinear frequency-mixing intracavity (including generation of UV, visible, mid-IR light). The laser system delivers Watt-level output power in tunable high-order transverse mode distribution.
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1. A laser source comprising:
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a laser cavity network including first and second spatially-distinct cavity arms and a collinear portion, wherein the first and second spatially-distinct cavity arms share the collinear portion, at least one of the first and second cavity arms containing, intracavity, a corresponding gain medium including one of (i) a VECSEL-based laser gain medium, (ii) a solid-state gain medium, and (iii) a fiber amplifier and configured to provide amplification of light at a corresponding wavelength; a first optical system, disposed across an axis of the at least one of the first and second cavity arms, to either refract or reflect light incident thereon while transforming a transverse distribution of said light that has traversed it, and a second optical system disposed across said axis and characterized by optical losses, at the corresponding wavelength, that are non-uniformly distributed across the second optical system, the second optical system disposed between the corresponding gain medium and the first optical system; wherein said laser source is configured to maintain, in operation, intracavity generation of light at the corresponding wavelength, said light having a first transverse mode distribution in a first portion of the laser cavity network between the gain medium and the second optical system, a second transverse mode distribution in a second portion of the laser cavity network between the second and first optical systems, and a third transverse mode distribution in a third portion of the laser cavity network, the third portion being a remaining portion of the laser cavity network; wherein the first, second, and third transverse mode distributions being different from one another. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10-18. -18. (canceled)
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