Tunable mid-wave infrared Fabry-Perot bandpass filters using phase-change GeSbTe

C Williams, N Hong, M Julian, S Borg, HJ Kim - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate spectrally-tunable Fabry-Perot bandpass filters operating across the MWIR
by utilizing the phase-change material GeSbTe (GST) as a tunable cavity medium between …

Monolithic thin-disk laser and amplifier concept

RA Lorbeer, B Ewers, C Santek, D Beisecker, J Speiser… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Thin-disk lasers are indispensable in photonics research as well as in a multitude of
industrial applications. They represent a unique class of laser and amplifier architecture that …

Thin-film filter wavelength-stabilized, grating combined, high-brightness kW-class direct diode laser

M Haas, S Rauch, S Nagel, L Irmler, T Dekorsy… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on kW-class dense wavelength beam combining of a laser diode module
consisting of ten broad-area laser diode bars by using a novel multi-laser cavity approach …

Resonant filters with concurrently tuned central wavelengths and sidebands

YH Ko, N Gupta, R Magnusson - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Tunable infrared filters are important for various optical and optoelectronic systems. Ideally,
such filters should span wide spectral ranges while retaining constant performance. Here, as …

Thermal detuning of a bichromatic narrow linewidth optical cavity

LD Bonavena, M Lequime, M Vardaro, Y Zhao… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
In the Advanced Virgo+ interferometric gravitational-wave detector, the length control of the
Fabry-Pérot cavities in the arms and of the detuned filter cavity, used for generating …

Voltage-tunable optical filters for instrumentation applications

TR Sommer, W Kastanis - US Patent 9,645,291, 2017 - Google Patents
A series combination of a shortwave pass (SWP) filter and a longwave pass (LWP) filter is
provided in an arrangement where the filters are separately and independently controlled by …

P-active project report

HJ Kim, S Borg, S Bartram, K Aryana, W Humphreys… - 2023 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The Phase change material-based actively-tunable filter (P-ACTIVE, Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, the
Principal Investigator/PI) project is a NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)-led research …

Nanoindentation hardness and practical scratch resistance in mechanically tunable anti-reflection coatings

JJ Price, T Xu, B Zhang, L Lin, KW Koch, EL Null… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work presents fundamental understanding of the correlation between nanoindentation
hardness and practical scratch resistance for mechanically tunable anti-reflective (AR) …

Wavelength-selective coatings on glass with high hardness and damage resistance

KW Koch, L Lin, JJ Price, CG Kim, DG Moon, SY Oh… - Coatings, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wavelength-selective coatings are broadly applied across diverse industries such as solar
energy management, infrared sensing, telecommunications, laser optics, and eye-protective …

Interference filter for non-zero angle of incidence spectroscopy

T Erdogan, L Wang - US Patent 8,958,156, 2015 - Google Patents
The present disclosure relates to thin film optical interference filters. The filters include a
substrate and a plurality of alternating material layers deposited on the substrate. When …