Optical source and supercontinuum light generation apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12210266B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-28

    申请号:US18344442

    申请日:2023-06-29

    Abstract: An optical source (100) comprising a supercontinuum generation apparatus comprising a pump light source (102), a twisted photonic crystal fibre, PCF, (104) and a wideband quarter-wave retarder (106). The pump light source is arranged to provide circularly polarised pump light. The twisted PCF is arranged to receive the pump light and to convert the pump light into circularly polarised supercontinuum light. The wideband quarter-wave retarder is arranged to convert the circularly polarised supercontinuum light into linearly polarised supercontinuum light. The optical source may additionally comprise a wavelength tunable bandpass optical filter arranged to transmit the linearly polarised supercontinuum light at wavelengths within a selected range.

    PHONON-MEDIATED UPCONVERSION METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20250020971A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-16

    申请号:US18771419

    申请日:2024-07-12

    Abstract: A phonon-mediated upconversion method includes exciting a Raman phonon in a crystal by illuminating the crystal with a number of pump beams each having a same pump frequency equal to one half of a phonon frequency of the Raman phonon. The method also includes generating an upconverted beam by illuminating the crystal with at least one of the number of pump beams while the Raman phonon is at least partially excited. The upconverted beam has an upconverted frequency that is three times the pump frequency.

    Integral optical resonator for frequency conversion

    公开(公告)号:US12184029B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US17483231

    申请日:2021-09-23

    Abstract: An integral optical resonant cavity for frequency conversion is provided. The integral optical resonant cavity includes: a housing, a cavity-length adjustment device, a temperature control device and a nonlinear crystal provided in the temperature control device; a first plano-concave mirror and a second plano-concave mirror included in the cavity-length adjustment device and a nonlinear crystal form the optical resonant cavity; and light passes through the first plano-concave mirror, the nonlinear crystal and the second plano-concave mirror sequentially. The stability of the length of the optical resonant cavity is improved through an integral design thereof, and the stability of the temperature of the nonlinear crystal in the integral optical resonant cavity is improved through the temperature control device, thereby stably controlling relative phases between light fields for the frequency conversion in the resonant cavity. Meanwhile, the length of the integral optical resonant cavity is accurately controlled through the cavity-length adjustment device.

    ACTIVE CANCELLATION OF FREQUENCY NOISE IN LASERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240369895A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-07

    申请号:US18653068

    申请日:2024-05-02

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to active cancellation of frequency noise in lasers. One example embodiment includes a device. The device includes an optical cavity exhibiting a resonant optical frequency. The device also includes a laser. An output of the laser is locked to the resonant optical frequency. A first portion of the laser output is transmitted through the optical cavity to filter out high-frequency noise from the first portion of the laser output to generate a modified signal. Additionally, the device includes an acousto-optic modulator configured to generate a reference signal. Further, the device includes a feedforward circuit configured to receive a first portion of the reference signal and generate a feedforward signal. In addition, the device includes an electro-optic modulator configured to interfere a second portion of the reference signal with a second portion of the modified signal using the feedforward signal to generate an output signal.

    OPTICAL COMPONENT
    10.
    发明公开
    OPTICAL COMPONENT 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240363786A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18291119

    申请日:2022-07-19

    CPC classification number: H01L31/1055 G01S7/4861 G02F1/353

    Abstract: An optical component serves as a nonlinear photodetector for generating a nonlinear electrical signal. The component comprises a first electrically conductive layer, a second electrically conductive layer and an absorption layer. The absorption layer is arranged between the first and the second electrically conductive layer and has a layer thickness of at least 500 nm. The electrical signal is generated by the component by applying a voltage at the component and irradiating the component with electromagnetic radiation in a first wavelength range (λ1) with a radiation intensity of less than 10 nW/mm2 and also irradiating the optical component with electromagnetic radiation in a second wavelength range (λ2) that is different from the first wavelength range (λ1) and a radiation intensity of less than 100 nW/mm2.

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