Improved Super Luminescent Light Source Specification.

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Abstract:

A fiber superfluorescent light source is disclosed which suppresses laser oscillations without interfering with the pump light or the super luminescence.In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fiber superfluorescent light source comprises a laser diode array for providing a pump beam at a wavelength of 0.81 microns, a first fiber doped with neodymium activator ions and being responsive to the pump beam for providing a spontaneous emission at a wavelength of 1.06 microns, and a second fiber optically coupled between the laser diode arrays and the first fiber for passing the pump beam therethrough to the first fiber to enable the first fiber to spontaneously emit light at the 1.06 micron wavelength and for suppressing backemissions of the 1.06 micron wavelength from the first fiber toward the laser diode array to prevent oscillations in the laser diode array

Author(s):
Snitzer, Elias ; Burns, William K. ; Moeller, Robert P.
Author Organization(s):
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC
Descriptive Note:
Patent Application, Filed 29 Jan 93,
Pagination:
0017

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
PAT-APPL-010 944
Monitor Series:
ONR
 Subject Terms
Communities of Interest:
No COI(s) Identified
Descriptor(s):
*LIGHT SOURCES, *FLUORESCENCE, *PATENT APPLICATIONS, *LIGHT EMITTING DIODES, NEODYMIUM, IONS, LASER BEAMS, FIBER OPTICS, SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES
Field(s)/Group(s):
Optics, Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Keyword(s):
Superfluorescence, Laser diodes
Report Date:
1993 Jan 29