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222 results about "Nonlinear crystals" patented technology

Nonlinear crystal. A crystal in which some influence (such as stress, electric field, or magnetic field) produces a response (such as strain, electric polarization, or magnetization) which is not proportional to the influence.

Ultra-wideband femtosecond optical parametric oscillator capable of being quickly tuned

The invention discloses an ultra-wideband femtosecond optical parametric oscillator capable of being quickly tuned, and relates to the technical field of optical parametric oscillators. The oscillator comprises a frequency doubling device, an optical parametric oscillator resonant cavity device and a dispersion compensation chirp mirror pair module. According to the invention, the original phase matching bandwidth is further broken through by adopting a non-collinear phase matching mode that the transmission included angle between the pump light and the signal light is 2.5 degrees, and rapid wavelength tuning can be realized only by finely tuning the cavity length under the condition that the angle of the nonlinear crystal is not adjusted; the broadband tunable optical parametric oscillator can break through the bottlenecks in the aspects of wavelength tuning range, wavelength tuning speed and the like of the existing near-infrared optical parametric oscillator, and provides a novel light source with larger wavelength tuning range and higher tuning speed for the fields needing broadband tunable light sources, such as spectroscopy, micro-nano processing, optical frequency combs and the like.
Owner:TIANJIN UNIV

Nonlinear crystal flexible clamping and temperature control device and method

A nonlinear crystal flexible clamping and temperature control device comprises a clamping seat, a top face clamping block, a side face clamping block, a stud, a compression spring, a nut, a window mirror pressing ring, a wave spring, a window mirror gasket, a window mirror, a window mirror limiting block, a nonlinear crystal, silicon rubber, a thermistor and a ceramic heating piece. The flexible clamping device exerts pre-tightening force on the nonlinear crystal in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction through the compression spring, and meanwhile flexible clamping of the nonlinear crystal is achieved in a silicone rubber dispensing fixing mode. The temperature control device achieves accurate control over the temperature of the nonlinear crystal in the mode that a thermistor collects temperature signals and a ceramic heating piece heats a clamping base. The flexible clamping and temperature control device disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of performing thermal expansion compensation on the nonlinear crystal, being high in mechanical resistance and temperature control precision, uniform in crystal heat distribution and the like.
Owner:SHANGHAI INST OF OPTICS & FINE MECHANICS CHINESE ACAD OF SCI

Multifunctional standard single photon source generation and calibration device and use method

The invention relates to the technical field of light quantum metering, in particular to a multifunctional standard single photon source generation and calibration device and a use method, and the device comprises a pumping laser light source, a nonlinear crystal, a signal optical filter, a beam splitter, a temperature control module, an idler frequency optical filter, a control module, a single photon detector group, a beam splitter, a multi-channel coincidence counter, and an optical switch. The pumping laser light source pumps the nonlinear crystal to generate two paths of single photon output of signal light and idler frequency light, the two paths of single photon output are filtered by the filter and then divided into multiple paths by the beam splitter, and standard single photons are directly output or the paths of the signal light or the idler frequency light are controlled by the optical switch to enter the single photon detector group for detection. External input single photons are controlled by the optical switch to enter the single-photon detector group for detection, and a count value of the single-photon detector group is accessed to the multichannel coincidence counter to record data. A pump light stable power system and a multi-path beam splitting coincidence counting system are introduced into a light path, so that standard single photon output with known brightness and g (2) (0) value can be realized.
Owner:THE 41ST INST OF CHINA ELECTRONICS TECH GRP

Efficient OPO system with bicrystal compensation and independent pumping regulation and control structure

The invention provides an efficient OPO system with a bicrystal compensation and independent pumping regulation and control structure, and relates to the technical field of laser nonlinear frequency conversion. The device comprises a pump laser, a light source regulation and control unit, an incidence adjustment unit, an OPO resonant cavity and an output separation unit which are sequentially arranged, the OPO resonant cavity comprises a walk-off compensation and frequency conversion module and a tuning module, and the walk-off compensation and frequency conversion module comprises a nonlinear crystal I and a nonlinear crystal II which have opposite cutting angles. And a tuning module is arranged between the nonlinear crystal I and the nonlinear crystal II. The OPO system based on the bicrystal structure has space walk-off angle compensation and pump light independent regulation and control capabilities, and is suitable for constructing near-infrared and intermediate-infrared laser sources with high efficiency and high stability. According to the invention, the optical path structure is flexible, the multi-crystal and multi-band adaptation is supported, and the system compatibility is good; miniaturization and intelligent integration are easy, and industrial application and popularization are facilitated.
Owner:HEBEI UNIV OF TECH

Quantum optical communications receiver

ActiveUS20260005771A1Laser detailsPhotonic quantum communicationPhotodetectorOptical parametric amplifier
The waveguide carrying a nonlinear crystal with reflective interface, a pump photon source and a circulator define an optical parametric amplifier which uses optical power from the pump photons to boost incoming signal and idler photons which carry the encoded signal. The nonlinear crystal performs optical parametric amplification upon the incoming optical signal in a quantum photonic process that generates additional signal and idler photons to thereby boost the intensity of the incoming signal. A photodetector is coupled for communication with the third port and operative to convert the reflected optical signal into an electrical signal defining the output of the communications receiver.
Owner:GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS INC

Tunable narrowband medium wave infrared detection method based on up-conversion

The invention discloses a tunable narrow-band medium-wave infrared detection method based on up-conversion, and the method mainly comprises the steps: building a tunable narrow-band medium-wave infrared detection system, adjusting the power of signal light and pump light and the size of a beam waist, and controlling the temperature of a nonlinear crystal at a room temperature level to suppress the noise of a static system. A nonlinear crystal is designed through displacement of a multi-polarization period of a mechanical motion module, so that quasi-phase matching of signal light and pump light in a range of 3-5 microns is realized in different polarization period channels, sum frequency light of a visible wave band is generated, and flexible tuning of the signal light in a wide spectral range is realized; after stray light is filtered out, a sum frequency signal is received by a detector, a corresponding curve is obtained according to detected intensity information corresponding to each wavelength, and narrow-band response characteristics of different polarization periods are obtained.
Owner:NANJING UNIV OF SCI & TECH

Miniaturized high-efficiency frequency-stabilized 355nm ultraviolet pulse laser

The invention discloses a miniaturized high-efficiency frequency-stabilized 355nm ultraviolet pulse laser, and belongs to the technical field of lasers. Comprising a seed laser module, a laser frequency stabilization module, a laser amplification module, a beam shaping module and a frequency tripling module. After frequency stabilization control is carried out on seed laser, a large-energy pumping source is generated through laser amplification, flat-topped light beams are formed after the light beams pass through a light beam shaping module, and high-efficiency 355 nm ultraviolet pulse laser output is achieved in combination with a nonlinear crystal frequency conversion technology. The device has the advantages of miniaturization, high conversion efficiency, high frequency stability, strong anti-interference capability and the like, can be used for an atmospheric component detection laser radar light source, and can meet the application requirements of airborne, satellite-borne and other complex environments.
Owner:SHANGHAI INST OF OPTICS & FINE MECHANICS CHINESE ACAD OF SCI

High-order transverse mode compression state preparation device based on optical parameter resonant cavity mode selection

The invention relates to a high-order transverse mode compression state preparation device based on optical parameter resonant cavity mode selection, and belongs to the technical field of quantum state light field generation. Fundamental frequency light and pump light output by the laser source generate a high-order transverse mode light field through the mode conversion module, and then the high-order transverse mode light field enters the optical parametric resonant cavity to be subjected to parametric down-conversion with the nonlinear crystal. The cavity length of the optical parametric resonant cavity is locked at the optimal pumping mode position corresponding to the high-order transverse mode compression state, so that resonance of an impurity mode in the optical parametric resonant cavity can be avoided, and the compression level of a high-order transverse mode light field is improved. Under injection of high-order transverse mode pump light, the pump mode is purified through the optical parametric resonant cavity of the annular structure, the compression level of a high-order transverse mode light field is enhanced, adjustment is easy, practicability is high, productization is easy, and wide application prospects are achieved in the fields of quantum space measurement, biological measurement, atomic force microscope detection and the like.
Owner:ZHONGBEI UNIV

Nonlinear frequency conversion regeneration amplification device and method thereof

The invention discloses a non-linear frequency conversion regenerative amplification device and a method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of laser non-linear frequency conversion. The device comprises a signal light injection unit, a regeneration amplification cavity unit and a pump light synchronization unit. The regenerative amplification cavity unit comprises an optical resonant cavity structure module, a polarization control module and a nonlinear action module. A time domain switch is formed through the polarization control module under the driving of the time schedule controller, and the preset number of times of circulation of signal light in the cavity is accurately controlled. And meanwhile, the pump light synchronization unit generates pump pulse string laser which is synchronous with the circulation process and has sub-pulse power increasing in sequence, so that the signal light and one corresponding pump sub-pulse are subjected to optical parametric amplification in the nonlinear crystal in each circulation. The space complexity of multi-stage amplification is converted into time domain controllability, high-efficiency and high-gain nonlinear frequency conversion is realized by using a single-stage compact structure, and the integration level and the stability of the system are remarkably improved.
Owner:CHANGCHUN INST OF OPTICS FINE MECHANICS & PHYSICS CHINESE ACAD OF SCI

Laser converter and laser device

The embodiment of the utility model provides a laser converter and a laser device. Wherein the laser converter comprises a shell, one side of the shell is provided with a laser input port, and the other side of the shell is provided with a laser output port; the nonlinear crystal is arranged in the shell and is used for converting the laser emitted from the laser input port into laser with a set wavelength; the first collecting lens is arranged in the shell and located on the side, away from the laser input port, of the nonlinear crystal, and the first collecting lens is used for focusing the laser with the set wavelength so that the laser output port can emit the focused laser. The laser converter can convert the laser, so that when the laser converter is applied to the laser device, the laser converter can be used for converting the laser originally emitted by the laser device, the laser originally emitted by the laser device is reserved, the laser device can emit the laser with the set wavelength by means of the laser converter, and the universality is good; and laser with set wavelength can be directly generated without adding a laser generator, so that the structure is simplified.
Owner:HEBEI KAIYUN MOTORS CO LTD

Multi-mode pump laser based multi-wavelength entangled photon pair generation device and quantum key distribution network configuration method using the same

A multi-wavelength entangled photon pair generation device includes: a multi-mode pump laser that radiates a broadband pump laser beam in an ultraviolet wavelength range including multiple Gaussian-distributed wavelengths; a nonlinear crystal that generates a multi-wavelength de-multiplexed entangled photon pair in a near-infrared wavelength range including multiple wavelength components corresponding to multiple Gaussian-distributed wavelengths of the broadband pump laser beam, respectively; a temperature controller that adjusts a temperature of the nonlinear crystal; and an output optical system that filters out the broadband pump laser beam from light output through the nonlinear crystal and passes the multi-wavelength de-multiplexed entangled photon pair.
Owner:AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEV

Deep ultraviolet laser source

A method and system for generating deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser light is disclosed, in one embodiment the DUV laser system includes a fiber laser source configured to emit a poised fundamental laser beam in the near-infrared with a pulse duration of less than 400 femtoseconds (fs), a nonlinear crystal assembly comprising first, second, and third nonlinear crystals that is configured to convert the fundamental laser beam to produce a fifth harmonic laser beam having a wavelength in a range from 200 nanometers (nm) to 230 nm, and at least one compensation plate disposed in at least one position preceding at least one of the first, second, and third nonlinear crystals and configured such that a pair of pulsed laser beams transmitted through the at least one compensation plate are spatially and temporally overlapped within the at least one of the first, second, and third nonlinear crystals.
Owner:IPG PHOTONICS CORP

Intermediate infrared nonlinear crystal, intermediate infrared laser and preparation method of intermediate infrared nonlinear crystal

The invention discloses a mid-infrared nonlinear crystal, a mid-infrared laser and a preparation method of the mid-infrared nonlinear crystal, a slice crystal is adopted, an included angle theta is formed between an optical axis Z axis of the slice crystal and the surface, the slice crystal is polarized into a periodic polarization structure with the period of lambda through a room temperature electric field polarization technology, and a large surface forms an optical plane through polishing. The problem of how to reduce the thermal lens effect of the intermediate infrared nonlinear crystal is solved, and the damage threshold of the intermediate infrared nonlinear crystal can be improved, so that the laser output power is improved.
Owner:NANJING NANZHI INST OF ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATION NANJING

Generic module for pure photons entanglement

An interferometric module, constructed in single pentagonal block to produce high quality, robust, low cost entangled-photon sources enabling polarization entanglement swapping. The compact block forms a generic platform that facilitates a comprehensive integration of optical components while allowing for quick optical alignments. Phase-stability of the self-balanced Sagnac interferometer is harnessed to offer a highly stable performance at room temperature and under sever operating conditions. High-quality entanglement is inherently achieved by equalizing two interferometric optical paths from counter-propagating photons. A periodically poled nonlinear crystal is placed between two half-wave plates, which also serve to correct the polarization states of the photons. The result is compensation-free and plug-and-play entangled-photon sources for quantum routers, distributed quantum sensing and quantum telecommunication. Wavelengths and generation rate of photon pairs are realized via the hosted crystal. Energy and polarization entanglement, and hyperentanglement can be remotely set by rotating the polarization state of the pump laser diode.
Owner:OZ OPTICS

Optical parametric oscillator and laser generating device

ActiveCN224438221Uimplement reflectionreduce volumeLaser technologyGrating
This application discloses an optical parametric oscillator and a laser generating device, relating to the field of laser technology. The optical parametric oscillator includes a first optical fiber, a mirror assembly, a nonlinear crystal, and a second optical fiber. The first optical fiber has a first receiving end and a first output end. The first receiving end is used to receive pump light. The second optical fiber has a second receiving end and a second output end. Light output from the first output end can be transmitted to the second receiving end via the mirror assembly and the nonlinear crystal. The second output end is used to output signal light. The mirror assembly includes multiple mirrors. The nonlinear crystal is located in the optical path between two mirrors. A first grating is disposed on the first optical fiber, and a second grating is disposed on the second optical fiber. Both the first and second gratings are fiber Bragg gratings. Because this application uses a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber to define the light transmission path, compared to a free-space optical path, the optical fiber can be coiled, which is beneficial for reducing the overall size and improving integration.
Owner:SHUNYI TECHNOLOGY (SHANDONG) CO LTD

Spectral domain-optical nonlinearity tomography device

An optical tomography device includes a sample optical path system for injecting light, scanned from a light source, into a sample corresponding to biological tissue; a reference optical path system for collecting the light scanned from the light source; and a detection unit for detecting a tomography image of the sample by interfering with sample light, transmitted from the sample optical path system and reflected from the sample, and reference light transmitted from the reference optical path system. The detection unit comprises: a nonlinear crystal which receives the sample light and the reference light and generates nonlinear light having a different wavelength than the sample light and the reference light; and an image sensor which detects a depth direction signal from the nonlinear light.
Owner:PHILOPHOS INC

Semiconductor laser and terahertz light source for generating terahertz waves

This application provides a semiconductor laser and a terahertz source for generating terahertz waves. The semiconductor laser includes: a substrate; a mesa located on the substrate; and a ridge waveguide and lateral coupling gratings located on the mesa, with the lateral coupling gratings located on both sides of the ridge waveguide. The lateral coupling gratings are configured such that the frequency difference between the fundamental transverse mode wavelength and the second-order transverse mode wavelength of the lasing light emitted by the semiconductor laser is 0.1 THz–10 THz. The semiconductor laser of this application, through the optimized configuration of the ridge waveguide and the lateral coupling gratings on both sides, precisely achieves simultaneous output of the fundamental and second-order transverse modes with a frequency difference on the order of terahertz. Combined with a polarization controller and a nonlinear crystal, it can stably output terahertz waves in the target frequency band. Compared with traditional solutions, the semiconductor laser of this application can simultaneously output the fundamental and second-order transverse modes with a frequency difference on the order of terahertz, offering advantages in miniaturization and low cost.
Owner:INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Femtosecond laser pulse width real-time monitoring device

The utility model discloses a femtosecond laser pulse width real -time monitoring device relates to optical instrument technical field, including main base plate, integral optical support module, integral optical support module is equipped with a plurality of, a plurality of integral optical support module is used for installing different optical elements, and optical elements include beam splitter, reflector, delay line and nonlinear crystal, and integral optical support module is vertically installed on main base plate through fixed peg, support stable clamping plate is formed with two clamping plates and is closed, and the round hole for clamping fixed peg is formed on support stable clamping plate, and both ends of support stable clamping plate are equipped with fixed hole, and the axial direction of fixed hole is perpendicular with the board face direction of support stable clamping plate, is used for further fixed integral optical support module group after clamping on main base plate. The utility model forms the door type frame structure through support stable clamping plate and makes a whole with a plurality of module, and the slight displacement and the shaking of each module top are restrained.
Owner:NANJING KEYUN OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

A method and apparatus for generating high-energy, few-cycle blue light

The application discloses a high-energy and few-cycle blue light laser generation method and device, and belongs to the technical field of ultrafast laser, wherein the method comprises the following steps: adopting a nonlinear crystal to double frequency of a base frequency pulse after compression, and performing at least twice pulse width compression on the obtained double frequency pulse to obtain high-energy and few-cycle blue light laser; wherein, the double frequency process and the pulse width compression process are both performed in a cavity filled with helium; the pulse width compression process is performed through spectral broadening of a solid sheet; since the helium has extremely low linear dispersion and nonlinear coefficient and extremely high ionization energy, not only the solid sheet damage can be avoided, and a part of spectral broadening is contributed, but also an environment close to vacuum can be provided in terms of dispersion and laser-induced ionization, so that the dispersion compensation of the double frequency pulse is easier, and the energy loss caused by gas ionization and the input energy limitation are avoided, and higher output energy is allowed; the problem that the high-energy and ultra-short pulse width blue light pulse is difficult to be realized simultaneously at present is effectively solved.
Owner:HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH +1

Apparatus and method for generating a wide-tunable narrow linewidth mid-infrared laser

The application relates to the field of laser technology, in particular to a device and a method for generating wide-tuning narrow-line-width mid-infrared laser, wherein the pump light emitted by a nanosecond pulse OPO base frequency pump source is reflected to a beam splitter by a full reflection mirror after passing through a first adjuster; the pump light emitted by a continuous wave OPO base frequency pump source is irradiated to the beam splitter after passing through a second adjuster; the two beams of pump light are combined after passing through the beam splitter, are focused after passing through a plano-convex lens, are irradiated to a first plano-concave full reflection mirror, and then are transmitted to a nonlinear crystal to generate signal light and idler mid-infrared laser through nonlinear frequency conversion; the idler mid-infrared laser and the residual pump light are transmitted to a doublet mirror and are separated by the doublet mirror; the signal light is reflected to the nonlinear crystal in sequence through a second plano-concave full reflection mirror, a first plane full reflection mirror, a second plane full reflection mirror and the first plano-concave full reflection mirror, and an oscillation closed loop is formed. The application realizes that the pulse OPO outputs a pulse with a line width less than 90 MHz in the tuning range, and the extraction efficiency of the idler light is as high as 9.3%.
Owner:WUHAN HUARAY PRECISION LASER

An apparatus for nonlinear crystal thermal management in a laser

The application relates to the technical field of solid laser emitters, in particular to a device for the thermal management of a nonlinear crystal in a laser. The device comprises a base, a fixing member, a pressing member and a pressing device, the pressing member is located between the base and the vertical plate part, a through V-shaped groove is formed on the side of the pressing member facing the base, the V-shaped groove and the mounting plate of the electric push rod arranged on the base and perpendicular to each other form a containing cavity for containing the nonlinear crystal, the mounting surface of the mounting plate and the V-shaped surface of the V-shaped groove are both provided with a temperature control assembly for adjusting the temperature of the nonlinear crystal, the temperature control assembly comprises a heating plate and a heat dissipation plate; and the pressing device is used for pressing the nonlinear crystal. The device can quickly adjust the temperature of the nonlinear crystal material, realizes the efficient thermal management of the amorphous material, and improves the stability of the nonlinear crystal material.
Owner:INST OF ENERGY HEFEI COMPREHENSIVE NAT SCI CENT (ANHUI ENERGY LAB)

Laser system and method for manufacturing electronic device

A laser system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first container housing a first crystal holder and a first heater for holding a first nonlinear crystal, and including a first entrance window for laser light to enter and a first exit window for laser light to exit after passing through the first nonlinear crystal; a second container housing a second crystal holder and a second heater for holding a second nonlinear crystal, and including a second entrance window for laser light to enter and a second exit window for laser light to exit after passing through the second nonlinear crystal; and a stage for holding the first and second containers. A controller controls the stage to remove the first nonlinear crystal from the laser light path and insert the second nonlinear crystal into the laser light path.
Owner:AURORA ADVANCED LASER CO LTD

Frequency-adjustable light source capable of covering vacuum ultraviolet band based on frequency conversion system

The invention discloses a frequency-variable light source capable of covering a vacuum ultraviolet band based on a frequency conversion system, and belongs to the technical field of laser optics and nonlinear optics. The device comprises an infrared or visible light wave band laser, an optical frequency conversion device, an amplitude and pulse adjusting device, a frequency selection resonant cavity, a higher harmonic module and a light source output coupling module. A frequency converter and a wavelength selection resonant cavity are added behind a laser source, so that the original single-frequency light is converted into other wavelengths through frequency conversion, then the light is converted into an ultraviolet band through a higher harmonic method, and a light source with any adjustable frequency in a vacuum ultraviolet band range is realized. By means of a method of adopting a nonlinear crystal, an inflatable photonic crystal fiber and a higher harmonic module, broadband spectrum frequency conversion operation is implemented, and a vacuum ultraviolet wave band covered after final frequency conversion reaches the range of 100-300 nm. By adding an amplitude and pulse width adjusting device behind the wavelength selection resonant cavity, the pulse width adjustment of the generated laser can be realized.
Owner:BEIJING INST OF TECH

An equal-interval three-wavelength laser simultaneous irradiation generating device and method

This invention provides a device and method for generating simultaneously emitted three wavelengths of laser light with equal spacing, relating to the field of laser technology. The device includes a pump source, a half-wave plate, an optical isolator, a focusing lens, an input mirror, a Raman crystal, an output mirror, a nonlinear crystal, and a dichroic mirror arranged sequentially along the optical path. The pump light, after its polarization direction is adjusted by the half-wave plate and the optical isolator, is focused onto the Raman crystal. Stimulated Raman scattering generates first and second Stokes beams, which are then converted to sum-frequency light by the sum-frequency effect of the nonlinear crystal. Finally, the dichroic mirror outputs three equally spaced wavelengths of laser light. This invention separates the Raman conversion and sum-frequency processes through an external cavity structure, achieving for the first time the simultaneous emission of three equally spaced wavelengths of laser light, offering advantages such as high output energy, equal wavelength spacing, and simultaneous emission of three wavelengths.
Owner:ANHUI UNIV OF SCI & TECH

System for generating 532nm green light through frequency doubling of 1mu m narrow linewidth nanosecond laser

The invention discloses a system for generating 532nm green light through frequency doubling of 1-micron narrow-linewidth nanosecond laser, which effectively inhibits the nonlinear threshold of an optical fiber amplifier, realizes high-power output of 1-micron narrow-linewidth nanosecond laser while ensuring high light beam quality, and realizes high-efficiency frequency conversion of a pumping nonlinear crystal. The all-fiber polarization-maintaining cascade amplifier comprises a fiber laser seed source system, a fiber pre-amplification device and a fiber main amplifier. The fiber laser seed source system adopts a direct modulation semiconductor laser, the main amplifier adopts a polarization-maintaining conical fiber as a gain medium, the all-fiber polarization-maintaining cascade amplifier outputs narrow linewidth nanosecond laser, and each part adopts an all-fiber welding mode; according to the solid cavity external frequency doubling device, narrow linewidth nanosecond laser is collimated and focused through a lens system, the polarization extinction ratio is improved through combination of a half slide and a polarization slice, meanwhile, the power of injection pump light is adjusted, finally, the laser is coupled into an LBO crystal, and the size of a light spot and the temperature of the crystal are controlled to achieve high-efficiency frequency doubling green light output.
Owner:BEIJING UNIV OF TECH

Tunable DUV laser assembly

A tunable laser assembly uses a fundamental wavelength between 1 μm and 1.1 μm to alternately generate laser output light at two or more output wavelengths within the range of 184 nm to 200 nm by directing the fundamental light through different regions of a fan-out periodically poled nonlinear crystal to generate corresponding different down-converted signals, and using different nonlinear summing crystals to mix the different down-converted signals with a fifth harmonic of the fundamental wavelength. Each nonlinear summing crystal has a crystal axis aligned at an angle relative to the light propagation direction to facilitate the efficient transmission and summing of the fifth harmonic with an associated down-converted signal. In response to a user-selected output wavelength, a frequency control system positions the fan-out periodically poled nonlinear crystal to generate a corresponding down-converted signal frequency and positions an associated nonlinear summing crystal to receive the fifth harmonic and the corresponding down-converted signal.
Owner:KLA CORP

Methods and apparatus to generate macroscopic fock and other sub-poissonian states of radiation

A principle which enables the generation of macroscopic Fock and sub-Poissonian states is disclosed. Generic components of the system include: an electromagnetic structure (possessing one or more electromagnetic resonances), a nonlinear electromagnetic element (such as a nonlinear crystal near or inside the structure), and a source of light. In one embodiment, stimulated gain is used to create large numbers of photons in a cavity, but with very low photon number noise (uncertainty) in the cavity, and thus acts as a Fock laser. This Fock laser is capable of producing these states due to a very sharp intensity-dependent gain (or loss) that selects a particular photon number. The disclosed system and method are robust against both atomic and optical decoherence. Various examples of the new Fock laser design are also described.
Owner:TECHNION RES & DEV FOUND LTD +1

Optical parametric oscillator

The invention provides an optical parametric oscillator. The optical parametric oscillator comprises a light beam emitting device and an optical parametric oscillation device. The optical parametric oscillation device comprises an oscillation cavity, a first nonlinear crystal and a second nonlinear crystal, wherein the first nonlinear crystal is arranged in the oscillation cavity and meets I-type phase matching, the second nonlinear crystal is arranged in the oscillation cavity and meets II-type phase matching, and the length ratio of the first nonlinear crystal to the second nonlinear crystal in the optical axis direction ranges from 1: 9 to 9: 1. When the optical parametric oscillation device works, fundamental frequency pump light emitted by the light beam emitting device enters the oscillation cavity, two beams of parametric light are generated under the action of the first nonlinear crystal and the second nonlinear crystal, the parametric light is resonated through the optical parametric oscillation device, and finally the required parametric light is output. Wherein the spectral line widths of the parametric light with the same wavelength generated by the first nonlinear crystal and the second nonlinear crystal are different, the first nonlinear crystal and the second nonlinear crystal are simultaneously placed in the oscillation cavity along the optical axis direction, and the output of the parametric light with different spectral line widths is realized by adjusting the length proportion of the two nonlinear crystals.
Owner:TECHNICAL INST OF PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY - CHINESE ACAD OF SCI

Combined rotating frequency doubling crystal point changing device, point changing method and laser

The invention provides a combined rotating frequency doubling crystal point changing device, a point changing method and a laser. The combined rotating frequency doubling crystal point changing device comprises a refraction lens, a folded cavity mirror, a nonlinear crystal and an end mirror. The refraction lens is rotatably arranged, and fundamental frequency light enters the folding cavity mirror through the refraction lens and is reflected to the nonlinear crystal through the folding cavity mirror; the end mirror reflects fundamental frequency light entering the nonlinear crystal and frequency doubling light generated after the fundamental frequency light enters the nonlinear crystal, and the frequency doubling light is output through the output end of the nonlinear crystal. When the output point of the nonlinear crystal needs to be changed, the refraction lens is rotated by a certain angle, so that the light path of the fundamental frequency light refracted by the refraction lens is changed, and the incidence point of the fundamental frequency light and the output point of the frequency doubling light of the nonlinear crystal are further changed. The operation is greatly saved, and the implementation method is simple and rapid.
Owner:NANGUANG HI-TECH (XIAMEN) LASER CO LTD

Inter-satellite high-precision ranging system and method based on balanced timing detection technology

The invention discloses an inter-satellite high-precision ranging system and method based on a balanced timing detection technology, and relates to the technical field of space precision measurement and time frequency transmission. The system comprises a first satellite terminal and a second satellite terminal which are connected through a bidirectional free space laser link. Each terminal is equipped with a clock optical frequency comb as a time reference and a time programming optical frequency comb as a local tracking oscillator. According to the invention, the full-digital sequential control capability of the TPFC is utilized, the pulse phase is dynamically regulated and controlled through the FPGA, and rapid scanning and real-time locking tracking of an inter-satellite high-speed moving target are realized; meanwhile, in combination with a balance optical cross-correlation (BOC) technology based on a nonlinear crystal, background noise is eliminated by utilizing differential detection, and high-sensitivity femtosecond-level time synchronous detection close to quantum limit is realized. The system has the characteristics of compact structure, high dynamic adaptability, excellent anti-noise performance and the like.
Owner:TIANJIN UNIV