摘要:
A high-efficiency fluorescent emitter includes an excitation source and a w phonon host doped with erbium. The emitter can be used as a lasing medium or as a phosphor. Typical hosts include RcX.sub.3 and chalcogenide glasses, wherein Rc is yttrium, gadolinium, lutetium, lanthanum or a mixture thereof, and X is a halogen or a mixture of halogens.
摘要:
The present invention is a solid state laser, including: (1) a laser cavity defined by a first mirror and an opposing second mirror, where these mirrors are reflective at the output wavelength of the laser; (2) a laser medium disposed in the laser cavity, including a low phonon energy host material, doped with an amount of praseodymium ions sufficient to produce a longitudinal mode laser emission from the transition of the praseodymium ions from the .sup.3 F.sub.3 excited state to a lower energy state when the laser medium is pumped by an appropriate pump, where the energy gap between the .sup.3 F.sub.3 excited state and the lower energy state corresponds to the output wavelength of the laser; and (3) a pump for the laser medium.
摘要:
The directly pumped holmium (Ho) quasi-two level laser of the invention comprises a directly pumped holmium laser having a host material doped with an amount of holmium ions sufficient to produce an output laser emission at a wavelength of about 2.1 .mu.m when the holmium laser is pumped by a pump beam at a wavelength of about 2 .mu.m and a pumping laser for producing the pump beam. In an exemplary embodiment, the pumping laser comprises a Cr,Tm:YAG laser pumped by a flashlamp.
摘要:
A system for transmitting power to a remote equipment, the system including a first laser source that generates a first laser beam; a first tracking device operatively connected to the first laser source, wherein the first tracking device controls a direction of the first laser beam; and a first photovoltaic device operatively connected to the remote equipment located remotely from the first laser source and the first tracking device, wherein the first photovoltaic device includes a semiconductor material that generates an electric current in response to absorbing the first laser beam, and wherein a first wavelength of the first laser beam is within an eye-safer range.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for growing a single crystal Kb2Cl5 material in a growth furnace comprising an upper zone set at 480° C. A single crystal Kb2Cl5 material is grown from a single Kb2Cl5 grain until a eutectic point is reached. The upper zone is cooled at 1°/hour to 380° C. The single crystal Kb2Cl5 material is annealed. The single crystal Kb2Cl5 material is cooled at 10°/hour to room temperature. Optionally, the method further includes loading an ampoule with Kb2Cl5 powder, the ampoule including a plug, which includes a seeding well and an aperture. The Kb2Cl5 powder is melted, thereby generating a melt. The melt is frozen to capture a polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 material in the seeding well, thereby generating a polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 seed. The ampoule is loaded into the growth furnace. The polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 material is melted except for the polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 seed, the polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 seed including the single Kb2Cl5 grain. The polycrystalline Kb2Cl5 material is grown until the single Kb2Cl5 grain is isolated by the aperture.
摘要:
An optical system having two or more different optical elements with a corresponding interface between the optical elements. At least one of the optical elements has an anti-reflective structure that is transferred to the interface between two optical elements, typically by embossing. Also disclosed is the related method for making the optical system.
摘要:
A method of growing a single crystal material using a device that includes a conical plug. The conical plug includes a first portion defining a first conical hole about an axis, the first conical hole having a first angle, and includes a second portion contiguous with the first portion and defining a second conical hole about the axis, the second conical hole having a second angle having the same sign as the first angle and being greater than the first angle. The device includes an upper tube comprising the conical plug fused therein and a seeding well plug. The device includes a lower tube including the seeding well plug fused therein. A single crystal KPb2Cl5 material is grown from the oriented single crystal KPb2Cl5 seed through the first conical hole and then the second conical hole and then with continuing growth in the upper tube.
摘要:
A multiple quantum well spatial light modulator combines both optically addressed and electrically addressed portions on a single wafer. The electrically and optically addressed portions may be physically distinct or combined. To fabricate the modulator, a portion of an optically addressed multiple quantum well spatial light modulator is configured as an electrically addressed portion by pixellating that portion of the multiple quantum well wafer. The frequency of the applied voltage to the electrically addressed portion is increased such that the voltage switches faster than both the dark and illuminated screening time. The electrically and optically addressed portions may be combined or positioned side-by-side. The spatial light modulator has applications in a wide variety of low-cost, high performance pattern recognition systems. In one system, a first infrared beam impinges the electrically addressed portion of the modulator and picks up the pattern electrically written thereon (i.e., the template image). A second infrared beam impinges the optically addressed portion of the modulator and picks up the pattern written thereon by a white light writing beam (i.e., sample image). The first and second infrared beams then pass through a lens, where the beams are Fourier transformed in the plane of an optically addressed spatial light modulator (OASLM). The correlation hologram formed on the OASLM is read out by a third infrared beam and detected using a photodiode array. In a second system, the lens and OASLM are replaced with a parabolic reflector which reflects the first and second infrared beams onto the optically addressed portion of the modulator.
摘要:
The method described herein allows for melt stabilization and vapor-phase synthesis of a cesium germanium halide utilizing germanium dihalides formed in situ. This disclosure allows for the melting of cesium germanium halides without decomposition, which allows for growing crystals of these materials from the melt. This disclosure allows for a direct synthesis of these materials without the use of water or the introduction of other possible contaminants.
摘要:
A system for remote optical communications includes a base station and a remote station. The remote station includes a retroreflector, a multiple quantum well modulator (MQW), and drive circuitry that drives the MQW. A base station transmitter sends an interrogating light beam to the MQW, which modulates the light beam based on the information in the electrical signal from the drive circuitry. The retroreflector reflects the modulated light beam to the base station for detection by a receiver.