Patent ID: 7376169

Claim:
An optical phase conjugating laser diode, comprising: a) a stimulated-emission source of photons, defining a gain-medium for the optical phase conjugating resonant-cavity of said laser; b) an optical feedback reflector assembly comprising a pseudo phase-conjugating corner-cube array as first reflector that comprises a plurality of corner-cube prisms, a distributed bragg mirror-stack as second reflector, and a gaussian mode providing laser-emission-mirror as third reflector, the first, second, and third reflectors defining a fundamental transverse mode for said cavity of said laser; c) an electrical pumping source, defining an energy source for pumping said gain-medium of said laser, whereby, said phase-conjugation provides for a high-power laser-emission-output into a single fundamental transverse spatial cavity mode of said cavity, and whereby, said phase-conjugation provides for a neutralization of the perturbation causing contribution of spontaneous emission.