Laser system using ultrashort laser pulses
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1. A system comprising:
- a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse;
a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with encoded characteristics;
software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse;
a fiber optic cable carrying the laser beam pulse from the pulse shaper;
a crystal operable to separate multiple frequencies of the pulse;
a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated by the crystal; and
a unit connected to the device operably decoding the characteristics;
wherein the pulse shaper is operably provided with a phase function allowing the shaped pulse to travel through the fiber optic cable without substantially suffering nonlinear distortion.
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Abstract
A laser system using ultrashort laser pulses is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the system includes a laser, pulse shaper and detection device. A further aspect of the present invention employs a femtosecond laser and a spectrometer. Still another aspect of the present invention uses a laser beam pulse, a pulse shaper and a SHG crystal. In yet another aspect of the present invention, a multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan system and method characterize the spectral phase of femtosecond laser pulses. Fiber optic communication systems, photodynamic therapy and pulse characterization tests use the laser system with additional aspects of the present invention.
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1. A system comprising:
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a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with encoded characteristics; software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse; a fiber optic cable carrying the laser beam pulse from the pulse shaper; a crystal operable to separate multiple frequencies of the pulse; a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated by the crystal; and a unit connected to the device operably decoding the characteristics; wherein the pulse shaper is operably provided with a phase function allowing the shaped pulse to travel through the fiber optic cable without substantially suffering nonlinear distortion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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6. A system comprising:
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a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with encoded characteristics; software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse; a crystal operable to separate multiple frequencies of the pulse; a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated by the crystal; and a unit connected to the device operably decoding the characteristics; a main transmitting controller; and multiple remote initial-transmitting communications sources connected to the transmitting controller; the main transmitting controller operably causing the pulse shaper to encode multiple successive laser beam pulses differently. - View Dependent Claims (7, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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10. A system comprising:
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a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with encoded characteristics; software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse; a crystal operable to separate multiple frequencies of the pulse; a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated by the crystal; and a unit connected to the device operably decoding the characteristics; wherein the unit operably determines phase distortions in the pulse. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62)
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11. A system comprising:
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a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with characteristics; an optic component operable to separate multiple frequencies of the pulse; a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated by the component; a unit connected to the device operably sensing the characteristics; wherein the pulse shaper has a fixed wave form on a substrate; and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (12, 63, 64, 65, 66, 118)
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19. A system comprising:
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a laser operable to emit a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operable to shape the laser beam pulse with encoded characteristics; multiple frequencies of the pulse being separated; a detection device operable to detect the characteristics of the shaped laser beam pulse as separated; a unit connected to the device operably decoding the characteristics; wherein the detecting device includes an array of optical fibers with multiples of the unit being connected downstream of the corresponding fibers; and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70)
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20. A system comprising:
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sequential laser beam pulses; a pulse shaper operably varying pulse characteristics from one of the sequential pulses to another; a component operably receiving the pulses as shaped by the pulse shaper in a converging phase matching angle manner and then causing each of the pulses to diverge into separate color frequencies; and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 71, 72)
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25. A system comprising:
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a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operably varying the pulse; an optic component operably receiving the pulse as shaped by the pulse shaper in a converging phase matching angle manner and then causing the pulse to diverge into separate color frequencies; a transmitting control unit; multiple communications sources connected to and sending input signals to the transmitting control unit; the transmitting control unit operably changing an aspect of the pulse shaper to encode multiple successive laser beam pulses in accordance with the input signals received from the communications sources and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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30. A system comprising:
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a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operably varying the pulse; an optic component operably receiving the pulse as shaped by the pulse shaper in a converging phase matching angle manner and then causing the pulse to diverge into separate color frequencies; a communications transmitter assembly including a laser and the pulse shaper, the laser operably emitting the laser beam pulse; a communications receiver assembly including the optic component and a detector; the transmitter assembly operably sending encoded laser signals to the receiver assembly which operably decodes the laser signals in an asynchronous manner based on a predetermined decryption code; and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (80, 81, 82, 83, 84)
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31. A system comprising:
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a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operably varying the pulse; an optic component operably receiving the pulse as shaped by the pulse shaper in a converging phase matching angle manner and then causing the pulse to separate; a fiber optic cable carrying the laser beam pulse from the pulse shaper and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123)
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32. A system comprising:
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a laser operably emitting a laser beam pulse; an optic operably causing phase modulation of the laser beam pulse; software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse; and at least one unit operably receiving the phase modulated pulse, determining at least one of;
(a) the magnitude and (b) sign, of the phase modulation in the frequency domain of the pulse. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43)
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33. A system comprising:
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a laser operably emitting a laser beam pulse; an optic operably causing phase modulation of the laser beam pulse; a unit operably receiving the phase modulated pulse and determining at least one of;
(a) the magnitude and (b) sign, of the phase modulation in the frequency domain;a controller calculating a distance from a component associated with the laser to the receiving unit being targeted, by determining the magnitude of the acquired second order phase modulation as the laser beam pulse travels through a fluid, and software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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41. A system comprising:
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a laser operably emitting a laser beam pulse; an optic operably causing phase modulation of the laser beam pulse; software instructions operably causing multiphoton intrapulse interference to be created in the laser beam pulse; and a unit operably receiving the phase modulated pulse and determining at least one of;
(a) the magnitude and (b) sign, of the phase modulation in the frequency domain;
wherein at least a subsequent laser beam pulse is used for photodynamic therapy upon tissue. - View Dependent Claims (90, 91, 92, 93, 94)
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44. A laser system comprising:
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a laser beam pulse; a pulse shaper operably varying a characteristic of the pulse; and a device, including software instructions, operable to create multiphoton intrapulse interference in the pulse. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 95, 96, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 124)
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97. A laser system comprising:
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a laser operably emitting a pulse; and a unit operable to apply multiphoton intrapulse interference in the pulse, the unit further comprising a pulse shaper and software. - View Dependent Claims (98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 112, 125)
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99. A laser system comprising:
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a laser pulse; a controller, including a computer program, operably calculating distortions in the pulse; and a pulse shaper operable to apply multiphoton intrapulse interference in the pulse based at least in part on the calculations by the computer program of the controller; wherein the pulse has a duration of less than about 50 femtoseconds. - View Dependent Claims (108, 109, 110, 111, 126)
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