A multi-module fiber laser capable of monitoring abnormalities of optical modules in real time. In the multi-module fiber laser, the CAN bus is employed to directly obtain whether each of the slave control modules or the master control module is in normal working condition, so that the CAN bus is at the status level corresponding to whether all modules are in normal working state, namely, the CAN bus that is configured to transmit the light control signal issued by the master control module. The status level of the slave control module or the combiner module is also transmitted via the CAN bus, so that all the slave control modules can quickly put themselves in the corresponding working state according to the status level of the CAN bus.

The disclosure relates to a device for generating pulsed laser radiation, having a laser resonator which contains a laser-active medium (EDF1, EDF2), a pump light source which optically pumps the laser-active medium (EDF1, EDF2) at a pump power (P), and a mode coupling device which is intended to effect phase coupling of the modes of the laser radiation circulating in the laser resonator, so that the spectrum of the laser radiation forms a frequency comb. The disclosure also relates to a method for designing or operating such a device. The disclosure proposes that phase noise of the frequency comb, i.e. the width of spectral lines of the frequency comb, is minimized at a predetermined useful frequency by adjusting the frequency of the pump power fixed point (vfix.sub.,pump) of the frequency comb. For this purpose, at least two of the parameters pump power (P), group delay dispersion of the laser resonator, non-linearity of the laser resonator and amplification of the laser-active medium (EDF1, EDF2) are optimized in an iterative process until the pump power fixed point (vfix.sub.,pump) is set to the desired frequency and the quadratic increase in the width of the spectral lines of the frequency comb with the frequency spacing of the spectral lines from the useful frequency is simultaneously minimized. The disclosure provides a fiber-based laser device for generating an fs frequency comb with maximum passive stability and a simple and compact design at the same time. The achievable linewidths of the comb lines lie over a broad spectral range in the kHz and sub-kHz range.

An apparatus for generating optical frequency combs and solitons includes a pump laser configured to output a pump signal with a pump wavelength, and a resonator module connected to the pump laser through an optical path and including a resonator and a waveguide structured to adjust a degree of coupling. The resonator generates at least one of pump combs at the pump wavelength, Raman combs at a Raman scattering wavelength or solitons, through different nonlinear phenomena.

A method of generating light with a laser-driven light source includes generating a CW sustaining light and propagating the CW sustaining light to a gas filled bulb comprising an ionizing gas. A pump light is generated. A Q-switched laser crystal is irradiated with the generated pump light, thereby generating pulsed laser light. The pulsed laser light is propagated to the gas filled bulb comprising the ionizing gas so as to generate a CW plasma that emits light. The light generated by the CW plasma in the gas filled bulb is detected. The pump light is controlled so as to extinguish the pulsed laser light after the light generated by the CW plasma is detected.

A femtosecond pulse laser apparatus includes a pump light source configured to provide a pump light, a gain medium configured to obtain a gain of a laser light using the pump light, a first curved mirror and a second curved mirror, which are provided at both sides of the gain medium, an output mirror configured to transmit a portion of the laser light and reflect the other portion of the laser light to the gain medium, a mode locking portion configured to generate a femtosecond pulse of the laser light, and an acoustic wave generator configured to provide an acoustic wave into the gain medium so as to adjust self-phase modulation of the laser light.

A system includes a master oscillator configured to generate a low-power optical beam. The system also includes a planar waveguide (PWG) amplifier configured to receive the low-power optical beam and generate a high-power optical beam having a power of at least about ten kilowatts. The PWG amplifier includes a single laser gain medium configured to generate the high-power optical beam. The single laser gain medium can reside within a single amplifier beamline of the system. The master oscillator and the PWG amplifier can be coupled to an optical bench assembly, and the optical bench assembly can include optics configured to route the low-power optical beam to the PWG amplifier and to route the high-power optical beam from the PWG amplifier. The PWG amplifier could include a cartridge that contains the single laser gain medium and a pumphead housing that retains the cartridge.

A fingerprint sensor-compatible overlay material which uses anisotropic conductive material to enable accurate imaging of a fingerprint through an overlay is disclosed. The anisotropic conductive material has increased conductivity in a direction orthogonal to the fingerprint sensor, increasing the capacitive coupling of the fingerprint to the sensor surface, allowing the fingerprint sensor to accurately image the fingerprint through the overlay. Methods for forming a fingerprint sensor-compatible overlay are also disclosed.

A single loop hardware-based system for producing laser pulses in a microsecond scale operational mode includes a GUI to enable a user to select the operational mode of the system; a laser source for producing one or more laser beam pulses, the laser source being a diode laser pump source module; a DSP which enables and disables a hardware-based FPGA. The FPGA controls the diode pump source module. When a user selects one or more microsecond scale laser sub-pulses on the GUI, the DSP transmits to the FPGA the sub-pulse energy level and the sub-pulse on-time selected by the user on the GUI. A photodetector operatively connected to the hardware-based system measures the power of the laser pulse beam that was transmitted to the photodetector and, in a feedback mode, transmits a feedback signal of that power measurement to the FPGA. The FPGA compares the power of the laser beam measured by the photodetector to the power of the laser beam selected by the user on the GUI. If the power level read by the FPGA is higher than the selected power level, the FGPA decreases the power level to the pumping source module for any subsequent laser pulses; and if the power level read by the FPGA is less than the selected power level, the FGPA increases the power level to the pumping source module for subsequent laser pulses.

A supercontinuum radiation source comprises: a radiation source, an optical amplifier and a non-linear optical medium. The radiation source is operable to produce a pulsed radiation beam. The optical amplifier is configured to receive the pulsed radiation beam and increase an intensity of the pulsed radiation beam. The non-linear optical medium is configured to receive the amplified pulsed radiation beam and to broaden its spectrum so as to generate a supercontinuum radiation beam. The optical amplifier may supply a pump radiation beam to a gain medium, an intensity of the pump radiation beam being periodic and having a pump frequency that is an integer multiple of the frequency of the pulsed radiation beam. The optical amplifier may supply pump energy to a gain medium only when the pulses of the pulsed radiation beam propagate through the gain medium.

In a fiber laser system (1) for outputting a laser beam obtained by combining a plurality of laser beams outputted by driving the respective fiber laser unit (2a, 2b, 2c), a control section (7) controls a plurality of current sources (6a, 6b, 6c) so that there are time intervals of a certain time between peaks which appear in a case where respective powers of the laser beams rise.