In an optical fiber device having a configuration in which an optical fiber is joined to a side surface of another optical fiber, a joint portion is suppressed from reaching a high temperature. The optical fiber device includes a first fluoride fiber, a second fluoride fiber, and a heat dissipation member. The first fluoride fiber guides light. The second fluoride fiber has a first end on or from which light is incident or output and a second end at which an end surface of the second fluoride fiber is obliquely joined to a side surface of the first fluoride fiber.

A system includes a master oscillator configured to generate a first optical beam and a beam controller configured to modify the first optical beam. The system also includes a PWG amplifier configured to receive the modified first optical beam and generate a second optical beam having a higher power than the first optical beam. The second optical beam has a power of at least about ten kilowatts. The PWG amplifier includes a single laser gain medium configured to generate the second optical beam. The system further includes a feedback loop configured to control the master oscillator, PWG amplifier, and beam controller. The feedback loop includes a laser controller. The laser controller may be configured to process wavefront information or power in bucket information associated with the second optical beam to control an adaptive optic or perform a back-propagation algorithm to provide wavefront correction at an output of the PWG amplifier.

A system includes a master oscillator configured to generate a first optical beam and a beam controller configured to modify the first optical beam. The system also includes a PWG amplifier configured to receive the modified first optical beam and generate a second optical beam having a higher power than the first optical beam. The second optical beam has a power of at least about ten kilowatts. The PWG amplifier includes a single laser gain medium configured to generate the second optical beam. The system further includes a feedback loop configured to control the master oscillator, PWG amplifier, and beam controller. The feedback loop includes a laser controller. The laser controller may be configured to process wavefront information or power in bucket information associated with the second optical beam to control an adaptive optic or perform a back-propagation algorithm to provide wavefront correction at an output of the PWG amplifier.

A laser amplifier head is provided. The laser amplifier head includes a plurality of plates of a solid-state laser active medium disposed in a housing, arranged parallel to one another with their main surfaces facing one another, the housing being provided with an inlet port and an outlet port for a cooling liquid, and also at least one window allowing a laser beam to pass through the laser active medium plates, wherein it also includes: a mechanical connection device allowing a cyclic movement at least of the laser active medium plates in relation to the laser beam in a plane (xy) perpendicular to the direction (z) of their thickness; and cooling liquid guide plates arranged in the extension of the laser active medium plates, between the latter and the inlet port of said liquid.

A method and apparatus for characterizing an optical element. The optical element is part of a laser and is mounted on a translation stage to scan the optical element transverse to an intracavity laser beam. A performance characteristic of the laser is recorded as a function of position of the optical element.

Impingement cooling devices for a laser disk include a carrier plate on the front side of which the laser disk can be secured, and a supporting structure, on the front side of which the rear side of the carrier plate is secured. The supporting structure has a plurality of cooling liquid feed lines from which the cooling liquid emerges in the direction of the rear side of the carrier plate and a plurality of cooling liquid return lines. The feed and return lines run parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the supporting structure, and the supporting structure includes a plurality of cutouts or the rear side of the carrier plate that are open toward the supporting structure, and the cooling liquid feed lines lead into and the cooling liquid return lines lead away from the plurality of cutouts.

Impingement cooling devices for a laser disk include a carrier plate on the front side of which the laser disk can be secured, and a supporting structure, on the front side of which the rear side of the carrier plate is secured. The supporting structure has a plurality of cooling liquid feed lines from which the cooling liquid emerges in the direction of the rear side of the carrier plate and a plurality of cooling liquid return lines. The feed and return lines run parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the supporting structure, and the supporting structure includes a plurality of cutouts or the rear side of the carrier plate that are open toward the supporting structure, and the cooling liquid feed lines lead into and the cooling liquid return lines lead away from the plurality of cutouts.

A system includes a heat sink module and a driving circuit module. The heat sink module includes stepped through-holes that each includes a cylindrical upper and lower portions connected by a ring-shaped surface. The bottom surface of the heat sink module includes grooves that respectively pass through the lower portions of respective sequences of the stepped through-holes. The driving circuit module includes conductive connectors and electrical driving surfaces that are disposed external to the heat sink module. Each conductive connector lies within a respective groove in the bottom surface of the heat sink module. The conductive connectors include internal connectors that each link at least two stepped through-holes in a respective sequence of stepped through-holes passed by a respective groove, and include external connectors that each link at least one stepped through-hole in the respective sequence of stepped through-holes to the electrical driving surfaces.

A system includes a heat sink module and a driving circuit module. The heat sink module includes stepped through-holes that each includes a cylindrical upper and lower portions connected by a ring-shaped surface. The bottom surface of the heat sink module includes grooves that respectively pass through the lower portions of respective sequences of the stepped through-holes. The driving circuit module includes conductive connectors and electrical driving surfaces that are disposed external to the heat sink module. Each conductive connector lies within a respective groove in the bottom surface of the heat sink module. The conductive connectors include internal connectors that each link at least two stepped through-holes in a respective sequence of stepped through-holes passed by a respective groove, and include external connectors that each link at least one stepped through-hole in the respective sequence of stepped through-holes to the electrical driving surfaces.

A system incorporating safety features, for optical power transmission to receivers, comprising an optical resonator having end reflectors and a gain medium, a driver supplying power to the gain medium, and controlling its small signal gain, a beam steering apparatus and a controller to control at least the beam steering apparatus and the driver. The controller responds to a safety risk occurring in the system, by outputting a command to change at least some of the small signal gain of the gain medium, the radiance of the optical beam, the power supplied by the driver, the scan speed or the scan direction and position of the beam steering apparatus, or to register the scan pose which defines the location of said optical-to-electrical power converter. The controller may also ensure a high overall radiance efficiency, and may warn of transmitted power not received by a targeted receiver.