Patent ID: 9240670
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H01S

Claim Text:
1. A pulsed laser system, comprising: a seed source generating a pulse; a polarization splitter to split said pulse into different polarization states, thereby forming polarization split pulses; a delay generator which receives said polarization split pulses and generates time separated pulses, said delay generator configured to control a temporal relationship between said polarization split pulses and to provide a temporal delay therebetween, each pulse having a different polarization state; a single medium in which said time separated pulses having said different polarization states propagate, wherein a peak power and energy of each of said time separated pulses is sufficiently low to avoid substantial distortion of a pulse output from said medium, wherein the power of the time separated pulses, if combined in said medium without said temporal delay, would exceed a non-linear threshold of said medium; and a combiner that receives said time separated pulses from said medium and substantially re-combines the time separated pulses and compensates said temporal delay to form an output pulse having increased peak power.