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A -- LLNL ADVANCED LASER TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING POC For Further information, contact Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, at (510) 423-3139. Announcement LLNL ADVANCED LASER TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy is seeking licensees for advanced laser technologies and applications. The Laboratory's goal is to apply federally-funded research and development expertise and capabilities at LLNL to industrial problems to enhance American productivity and competitiveness in areas of national importance. Moving critical technology beyond the Laboratory to the commercial world helps our U.S. licensees gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. The University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory can license technology through exclusive or nonexclusive licensing agreements. The Laser Programs Directorate at LLNL has an extensive history of research, development, and demonstration in advanced laser materials and devices, and laser applications. Component suppliers and equipment manufacturers of such devices are invited to participate. LLNL is soliciting licensees for two families of novel solid state laser materials: (1) apatite laser crystals doped with selected rare earth ions: e.g. ytterbium doped calcium fluorapatite (Yb:C-FAP) or ytterbium doped or strontium fluorapatite (Yb:S-FAP), for diode-pumped operation near 1 micron or at visible wavelengths through harmonic nonlinear conversion; neodymium doped fluor-vanadium -apatite crystals for diode pumped operation near 1 micron or at visible wavelengths through harmonic nonlinear conversion; (2) diode-laser-pumpable zinc chalcogenide crystals (ZnX; X = S, Se, Te) doped with divalent chromium laser active ions, that are tunable in the mid-infrared (e.g. 2-3 microns). (087)

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