The present description relates, according to one aspect, to a high-peak-power laser pulse generation system (10) comprising at least one first light source (101) for emitting first nanosecond laser pulses (I.sub.L), a fiber device (110) for transporting said first laser pulses, comprising at least one first multimode fiber with a single core designed to receive said first laser pulses, and at least one first optical amplifier (120) arranged at the output of said fiber device for optically amplifying said first laser pulses in order to form said high-peak-power laser pulses.

A joined body (10) includes an optical material (11) and a cooling material (12) that are capable of transmitting light and are joined together. At a joining interface between the optical material (11) and the cooling material (12), the joined body (10) is capable of transmitting light, and also an atom contained in the optical material (11) diffusively enters the cooling material (12) in such a degree that an interference fringe is not generated in the joined body (10). A diffusive entry length of an atom contained in the optical material (11) into the cooling material (12) may be in a range from approximately 1.0 nm to approximately 10 μm.

Laser systems and methods configured to reconstruct an image of an object from an input comprising: the objects scattered intensity distribution (SID) and the objects compact support; the system comprising: a first lens and a second lens, in a four-focal telescope configuration; a gain with a minor at one end, at first end of the telescope, configured to amplify and reflect a received beam; a reflective spatial light modulator, at second end of the telescope, configured to selectively reflect intensity distributions of a received beam, according to their spatial location, the selective reflection is configured to maintain the intensity distributions of the objects SID; a spatial intensity binary mask, located between the telescope's lenses, comprising an aperture in the form of the objects compact support; the mask is configured to transfer only beams passing through the aperture. The reconstructed objects image is provided at least at the mask's aperture.

A frequency double or mixing laser includes a laser pump, a rear optical element, a Brewster window, a laser generator medium, an output coupler and a nonlinear crystal located inside the resonator cavity. The nonlinear crystal may be located inside the resonator cavity before the output coupler. The laser may further include at least one optical element that controls the phase or/and the amplitude of the fundamental laser beam to a high-order.

Systems and methods for imaging in the short wave infrared (SWIR), photodetectors with low dark current and associated circuits for reducing dark currents and methods for generating image information based on data of a photodetector array. A SWIR imaging system may include a pulsed illumination source operative to emit radiation pulses in the SWIR band towards a target resulting in reflected radiation from the target; (b) an imaging receiver including a plurality of Ge PDs operative to detect the reflected SWIR radiation and a controller, operative to control activation of the receiver for an integration time during which the accumulated dark current noise does not exceed the time independent readout noise.

The invention can include an optical pulse source apparatus that includes the nonlinear generation of wavelengths, wherein the optical pulse source can comprise an oscillator for producing optical pulses, the optical pulses having a first wavelength; an optical fiber amplifier for amplifying optical pulses having the first wavelength; a nonlinear optical fiber receiving amplified optical pulses having the first wavelength to nonlinearly produce optical pulses that include wavelengths that are different than the first wavelength; and wherein the optical pulse source is configured so as to be operable to reduce the optical pulse frequency of the nonlinearly produced optical pulses.

To prevent an output decrease of laser light due to impurities formed in a Q switch. A laser machining device includes a Q-switch housing section configured by housing a Q switch and a first mirror and a wavelength converting section including a housing in which a transmission window section capable of transmitting a fundamental wave is formed, the wavelength converting section being configured by airtightly housing, with an internal space surrounded by the housing, at least a first wavelength conversion element, a second wavelength conversion element, and a second mirror. A resonator forming a resonant optical path passing through the transmission window section is configured by the first mirror in the Q-switch housing section and the second mirror in the wavelength converting section.

An acousto-optic Q switch, a resonant cavity, and a pulse laser device for improving laser device power. The acousto-optic Q switch includes: a transparent optical element configured to form a phase grating that diffracts laser; a piezoelectric transducer arranged at one end of the transparent optical element and configured to convert electrical energy into ultrasonic energy to form the phase grating in the transparent optical element; and an absorber arranged at the other end of the transparent optical element to absorb the ultrasonic energy.

Techniques are provided for controlling an output laser pulse signal of a medical device. A control device defines a time duration of capacitive discharge to a laser device. The time duration corresponds to an intended energy of the output laser pulse signal. The control device generates a plurality of sub-pulse control signals. The sub-pulse control signals define a series of capacitive discharge events of the capacitor bank. The control device modulates one or more of a sub-pulse control signal period or a sub-pulse time duration of the sub-pulse control signals to modify the capacitive discharge of the capacitor bank to the laser device during the time duration.

To appropriately change an output of laser light without deteriorating laser characteristics. A control section of a laser machining device controls, when a target output is larger than a predetermined threshold, an output of laser light by changing a driving current supplied to an excitation light source and, on the other hand, controls, when the target output is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the output of the laser light by changing a duty ratio of a Q switch while keeping the driving current supplied to the excitation light source substantially fixed.