Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frequency-converted light source
- Patent Title (中): 变频光源
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Application No.: US15056257Application Date: 2016-02-29
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Publication No.: US09405169B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Tim Michael Smeeton , Edward Andrew Boardman , Karl Peter Welna
- Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Main IPC: G02F1/37
- IPC: G02F1/37 ; H01S5/00 ; H01S5/323 ; G02F1/355 ; G02F1/35

Abstract:
A light source includes a light emitting element configured to emit a non-diffraction limited input light beam, a nonlinear frequency conversion (NLFC) component that exhibits walkoff and performs second harmonic generation whereby at least a portion of an output beam outputted by the NLFC component has twice a frequency of the input beam, and an optical component positioned to receive the input light beam and configured to converge the non-diffraction limited input beam into the NLFC component. The light emitting element emits the input light beam having a beam quality factor in at least one plane of the input beam that is greater than 2 (M2>2). Furthermore, the light emitting element is a laser diode including AlyInxGa1-x-yN (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1) semiconductor materials, and one dimension of an emission region of the laser diode is at least 5 μm.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160178986A1 FREQUENCY-CONVERTED LIGHT SOURCE Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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