Method for manufacturing resonant cavity for laser
AssigneeSpectra-Physics Lasers, Inc.
InventorWilliam A. Shull
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Abstract
A method for affixing the optics of a laser to the laser tube, comprising: providing a substrate seat, coupling a substrate to the seat, coating the substrate with a multilayer thin film coating, and securing the substrate seat to the laser tube. In a further aspect, a method for manufacturing a resonant cavity is disclosed, the method comprising: providing a laser tube having first and second ends, securing a substrate mount, having a coated output coupler secured thereto, into one end of the laser tube, securing a substrate mount, having a coated reflecting mirror secured thereto, into the other end of the laser tube, and sealing the laser tube.
Claims32
A method for affixing the optics of a laser to the laser tube, comprising:
- (a) providing a substrate seat;
- (b) coupling a substrate to the seat;
- (c) after the step of coupling, coating the substrate with a multilayer thin film coating;
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- (d) after the step of coating, securing the substrate seat to the laser tube.
A method for manufacturing a resonant cavity, comprising:
- (a) providing a laser tube having first and second ends;
- (b) mounting a substrate for an output coupler on an output coupler mount, then coating the substrate to form the output coupler;
- (c) securing the output coupler mount, having the output coupler secured thereto, into one end of the laser tube;
- (d) mounting a substrate for a reflecting mirror on a mirror mount, then coating the substrate to form the reflecting mirror;
- (e) securing the mirror mount, having the reflecting mirror secured thereto, into the other end of the laser tube;
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- (f) sealing the laser tube.
A method for manufacturing a laser tube, comprising;
- (a) providing a laser tube, having a first end and a second end, suitable for containing an excitation medium;
- (b) providing a first substrate seat, the substrate seat being mountable at one end of the laser tube;
- (c) applying a first substrate to the substrate seat;
- (d) coating the first substrate with a reflective coating;
- (e) then affixing the coated substrate and substrate seat to the first end of the laser tube;
- (f) providing a second substrate seat, the second substrate seat being mountable at one end of the laser tube;
- (g) coating one side of a second substrate with an antireflective coating;
- (h) applying the second substrate, having the antireflective coating thereon, to the second substrate seat by joining the one side to the substrate seat;
- (i) coating an opposite side of the second substrate with a multilayer thin film coating;
- (j) then affixing the second coated substrate and second substrate seat into the second end of the laser tube;
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- (k) evacuating the environment within the laser tube.
A method for manufacturing a resonant laser cavity, comprising:
- (a) providing a laser tube;
- (b) providing a first and second substrates, each having a first and second sides;
- (c) applying a first substrate to a first substrate mount by securing the first side to the mount;
- (d) coating the second side of the first substrate with a series of thin films to form an output coupler;
- (e) securing the first substrate mount to the first end of the laser tube;
- (f) applying the first side of the second substrate to a second substrate mount;
- (g) coating the second side of the second substrate with a series of thin films to form a mirror;
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- (h) securing the second substrate mount to the second and of the laser tube.
A method for affixing an optical element of a laser to the laser tube, comprising;
- (a) providing a substrate seat, the substrate seat being completely insertable into the end of the laser tube;
- (b) coating one side of a substrate with an anti-reflective coating;
- (c) coating an opposite side of the substrate with a reflective, multilayer thin film coating;
- (d) coupling the substrate to the seat;
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- (e) then securing the substrate seat to the laser tube.
A method of manufacturing a laser tube for an ion laser, comprising:
- (a) providing a laser tube having a first end and a second end;
- (b) providing a substrate mount;
- (c) mounting a substrate to the substrate mount through a high temperature coupling process;
- (d) coating the substrate with a multilayer thin film coating, the coating consisting of layers of high and low index materials having divergent thermal expansion coefficients;
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- (e) then mounting the substrate mount to one end of the laser tube through low temperature coupling process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.