Patent ID: 6970494
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: C03C,G02B,H01S

Abstract:
1. An optical component comprising: a glass substrate doped with a laser species; a substrate waveguide defined within the glass substrate, the substrate waveguide having an output facet; and a diode pump laser having a diode laser and a waveguide cavity abutted to an output facet of the diode laser to provide an extended waveguide cavity such that a laser resonator cavity of the diode pump laser includes the extended waveguide cavity, the extended waveguide cavity being positioned adjacent, above and along to a length of the substrate waveguide, the extended waveguide cavity coupled to the substrate waveguide so that pump light from along a length of the extended waveguide cavity of the diode laser's resonator cavity is transferred into the substrate waveguide along at least a portion of the length of the substrate waveguide to provide light from the output facet of the substrate waveguide.