System and method for controlling output of light towards objects

    公开(公告)号:US12011778B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-18

    申请号:US17686894

    申请日:2022-03-04

    IPC分类号: B23K26/03 B23K26/062

    摘要: Embodiments pertain to a system for controlling outputting of light towards objects, the system comprising a detection subsystem configured to detect, for at least one object, one or more values of object characteristics, the object characteristics comprising, at least, electromagnetic absorption characteristics, wherein detection of object characteristic values is performed such that the object remains structurally intact; a light source subsystem comprising at least one light source for generating output light and directing the output light towards an object; and a controller configured to control, based on the detected object characteristics values, at least one operational parameter value of the at least one light source such that at least some of the output light that is directed towards the object has electromagnetic characteristics that correspond to the detected values of the electromagnetic absorption characteristics of the object, in order to structurally change at least part of the respective object.

    Battery-powered current regulator for pulsed loads

    公开(公告)号:US11191142B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US16762366

    申请日:2018-11-08

    摘要: A current regulator for a pulsed load is provided herein. The current regulator may include: an input power source; a current sense circuit; a capacitive energy storage device; a current sink driver; a current source charger which receives input current from the input power source via the current sense circuit and provides a charge for the capacitive energy storage device coupled between the current source charger and the current sink driver which drives the pulsed load; a power monitor circuitry which generates a feedback signal, based on a function of the input power and a function of at least one of: voltage across the capacitive energy storage, or voltage across the current sink driver; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) or pulse frequency modulation (PFM) circuitry which controls the current source charger based on the feedback signal.

    Active fiber package
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11146035B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US17261987

    申请日:2019-07-04

    IPC分类号: H01S3/067 H01S3/04 H01S3/00

    摘要: The present invention provides an active fiber package for use in a fiber laser, amplifier, or ASE source comprising: a plate-shape base comprising a groove having a configuration of at least two spirals for receiving and fixedly holding an active fiber therein, said at least two spirals are coplanar enabling visibility of said active fiber, the outer loop of one spiral transitioning smoothly to the outer loop of another spiral, and the inner loop of each one of said spirals transitioning smoothly into a relatively short straight section; wherein a portion of said straight section of one of said spirals spliced to a coupling fiber, and wherein multiple inner loops of each one of said spirals in proximity to said straight section having a relatively low radius of curvature for enabling tight coiling of said active fiber, thus, for reducing thermal modal instability (TMI) and increasing lasing power.

    BATTERY-POWERED CURRENT REGULATOR FOR PULSED LOADS

    公开(公告)号:US20200267815A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16762366

    申请日:2018-11-08

    摘要: A current regulator for a pulsed load is provided herein. The current regulator may include: an input power source; a current sense circuit; a capacitive energy storage device; a current sink driver; a current source charger which receives input current from the input power source via the current sense circuit and provides a charge for the capacitive energy storage device coupled between the current source charger and the current sink driver which drives the pulsed load; a power monitor circuitry which generates a feedback signal, based on a function of the input power and a function of at least one of: voltage across the capacitive energy storage, or voltage across the current sink driver; and a pulse width modulation (PWM) or pulse frequency modulation (PFM) circuitry which controls the current source charger based on the feedback signal.

    Modal instability control in fiber lasers

    公开(公告)号:US10651622B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-12

    申请号:US16327866

    申请日:2017-08-23

    摘要: Fiber lasers and methods are provided, in which the modal instability threshold is raised to provide more laser power. Fiber lasers comprise an active optical fiber having at least one absorption peak wavelength (λpeak) and capable of supporting more than a fundamental mode during operation, and a plurality of pump diodes connected to deliver radiation emitted thereby into the optical fiber. At least one of the pump diodes is a wavelength-locked (WL) diode and at least one of the pump diodes is configured to deliver radiation at at least λ≠λ(not necessarily the same diode(s)). The pump diodes may comprise any of WL diode(s) at λ≠λpeak, WL diode(s) at λ=λpeak and non-WL diode(s). Pumping radiation off the fiber's absorption peak increases the modal instability threshold, most likely by reducing the temperature gradient in the active fiber at the fiber pump entrance point and along the fiber.

    NARROWBAND DEPOLARIZED FIBER LASERS
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190288481A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US16463248

    申请日:2017-11-30

    摘要: Depolarized fiber lasers and respective methods are provided for increasing the SBS (stimulated Brillouin scattering) threshold. The laser source is constructed by a frequency-broadened seed source having a frequency bandwidth of less than 50 GHz, and the depolarization of the seed source is carried out at time scales shorter than 10 ns. At least one amplifier is configured to receive and amplify radiation from the frequency-broadened seed source and deliver the amplified radiation in the optical fiber. Depolarization may be achieved in various ways (e.g., using an interferometer with added length to one arm) and is kept at time scales shorter than tens of nanoseconds, typically shorter than 5-10 ns, which distinguish it from random polarization having polarization changes at longer time scales. Polarization maintaining fibers may be used to further increase the SBS by separating the polarizations states.

    Infrared detector with increased image resolution and method for use thereof

    公开(公告)号:US09894292B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-13

    申请号:US13978054

    申请日:2013-05-05

    IPC分类号: H04N5/33 H04N5/349

    CPC分类号: H04N5/33 H04N5/349

    摘要: Apparatus for increasing resolution of cryogenically cooled vacuum-sealed infrared imaging detector. A two-dimensional detector array of photosensitive pixels is successively exposed to an image scene, acquiring multiple imaging samples. A masking filter, disposed between the detector array and image scene focal plane, is maintained at a fixed position with respect to the detector array, and reduces the region of pixels collecting incident radiation for each imaging sample such that only a portion of each pixel area of the image scene is imaged onto the corresponding detector array pixel. Shifting means successively shifts the optical path of the image scene relative to the masking filter, by a shifting increment or fill-factor reduction amount equal to a fraction of the array pixel width, to image different sub-pixel regions in each imaging sample. A processor reconstructs an image frame having a resolution greater than the intrinsic detector resolution by the fill-factor reduction amount.