Title:
CAVITY FOR SOLID STATE MICRO-LASER HAVING OPTIMIZED EFFICIENCY AND MICRO-LASER USING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3798053
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a pumping beam and a laser beam regardless of a thermal effect, by causing the dimension of the pumping beam to be not greater than the dimension of the laser beam in an active medium of reflection means.
SOLUTION: An entrance surface 14 and an exit surface 16 are recess-shaped, and spherical mirrors are formed on the entrance and exit surfaces by depositing a dielectric film thereon. Each of the entrance and exit mirrors has a radius of curvature which is so determined that the dimension of a pumping beam in an active material 12 is not greater than the dimension of a laser beam in the same material (the so-called overlap condition). When a pumping beam 22 is completely included in a laser beam 24 (satisfactory overlap), the whole pumping energy is absorbed in an effective volume of the laser. For a certain period from the time when a waveguide effect due to a gain and a parasitic thermal effect due to heating by the pumping beam can be ignored, as soon as the energy is absorbed in the laser beam, the energy is related to a laser effect and can be generated regardless of the thermal effect.
Inventors:
Philip Tony
Angen Morva
Angen Morva
Application Number:
JP1046796A
Publication Date:
July 19, 2006
Filing Date:
January 24, 1996
Export Citation:
Assignee:
COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES MATIERES NUCLEAIRES
International Classes:
H01S3/05; H01S3/06; H01S3/08; H01S3/094; H01S3/0941; H01S3/115; H01S3/108; H01S3/11; (IPC1-7): H01S3/05; H01S3/08
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Foreign References:
US5511085 |
Other References:
J.J.Zayhowski et al.,Optics Letters,1992年 9月 1日,Vol.17, No.17, pp.1201-1203
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatake Shiga
Takashi Watanabe
Shigeo Naruse
Takashi Watanabe
Shigeo Naruse