Laser apparatuses with large-number multi-reflection pump systems
AssigneeApollo Instruments, Inc.
InventorsZhijiang Wang, Ying Wang
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Abstract
A large number of passes of pump light through an active mirror in a solid state disk laser is realized using a pair of coupled imaging systems, where the optical axes of imaging systems are not coincident. Two imaging systems are optically coupled, so that an image of the first imaging system is an object of the second imaging system, and vice versa. An active mirror is disposed at the object or image plane, or at the focal plane of any one of the coupled imaging systems, where the position of the reflected pump beam during the multi-reflection between the first and second imaging systems is substantially unchanged.
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An optical system comprising:
- a relatively larger concave spherical mirror,
- a first relatively smaller concave spherical mirror and a second relatively smaller concave spherical mirror, at least one of said first and second relatively smaller concave spherical mirrors being an active mirror, a center of curvature of said relatively larger concave spherical mirror being at a central point between said first and second relatively smaller concave spherical mirrors, the centers of curvature of said first and second relatively smaller concave spherical mirrors being at said relatively larger concave spherical mirror, and
- a source generating a pump light beam which enters and leaves said system after multiple reflections between said relatively larger mirror and said first and second relatively smaller mirrors, said beam being focused and reflected at substantially unchanged positions at said first and second relatively smaller concave spherical mirrors, said beam striking and being reflected by said relatively larger concave spherical mirror at changing positions.
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