A passive mode-locked polarized laser including an oscillator, the oscillator including: a cavity; a pump source coupled to the cavity; an optical output coupler, and an optical output isolator. Also, a method for generating polarized pulsed light having a wavelength of about 2 μm using the passive mode-locked polarized laser.
A system for the treatment of a region of an object adjacent to a substrate. The system includes a source of an incident laser beam delivering a focused laser beam. The wavelength of the incident laser beam is greater than the sum of 500 nm and of the wavelength associated with the bandgap of the material forming the substrate and smaller than the sum of 2,500 nm and of this wavelength. The system includes an optical device associating a digital aperture greater than 0.3 and means for correcting the spherical aberrations appearing during the crossing of the substrate for a given thickness of the substrate and a given distance between the substrate and the optical device. The processing being performed on the region through the substrate, and including the physical, chemical, or physico-chemical modification or the ablation of said region.
A supercontinuum source capable of emitting waves between the infrared range and the ultraviolet range, includes a pulsed laser source (12) capable of generating a laser beam and a non-linear microstructured optical fiber (14) capable of receiving the laser beam, in such a way that the supercontinuum source is capable of generating a beam (F′) over a pulse duration (T′), characterized in that the supercontinuum source includes elements for varying the pulse duration.
H01S 3/30 - Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range using scattering effects, e.g. stimulated Brillouin or Raman effects
H01S 3/10 - Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
The subject of the invention is a supercontinuum source capable of emitting waves between the infrared range and the ultraviolet range, comprising a pulsed laser source (12) capable of generating a laser beam and a non-linear microstructured optical fibre (14) capable of receiving said laser beam, in such a way that the supercontinuum source is capable of generating a beam (F') over a pulse duration (T'), characterized in that the supercontinuum source includes means for varying said pulse duration.
The invention relates to a method for generating a spectrum extending from the infrared range to the ultraviolet range, consisting of injecting, into a microstructured optical fiber, a pumped laser beam having a wavelength in the infrared range, characterized in that the method includes the following steps: generating, in the fiber, a first four-wave mixing or a primary mixing centered on the wavelength of said laser beam; generating, in the fiber, a second four-wave mixing centered on one (32) of the rays (32, 34) from the first four-wave mixing or secondary pump ray; and widening the spectrum about one (36) of the rays from the second four-wave mixing.
The invention relates to an optical device forming a polychromatic light generator, including a laser source capable of providing a pump radiation at a first frequency and a microstructured optical fibre having a core that comprises at least a first and second region. The first and second region have respective chemical compositions arranged so as to define a phase matching such that, in the event of non-linear mode excitation by the pump radiation, the fibre provides a polychromatic light output mainly consisting of the pump radiation as well as of radiation resulting from the pump radiation by a four-wave mixing non-linear effect.
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