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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized laser beam generator capable of stably oscillating continuous light of a wavelength region of about 200 nm or less at high conversion efficiency.SOLUTION: The light of a wavelength λoutput from a first laser beam generator 10 and the light of a wavelength λoutput from a second laser beam generator 11 are supplied into a first resonator 13 and a second resonator 14, respectively, and the light of a wavelength λis generated by sum frequency blending of the two incident lights in a nonlinear optical element 15 included in both of the first resonator 13 and the second resonator 14. In this case, the lights of the wavelengths λ, λ, λare made incident on and emitted from the nonlinear optical element 15 in a mutually and spatially separated state, and they have mutually different light paths. The lights of the wavelengths λ, λare set so that their optical axes do not completely match with each other, and if the angle of incidence or the angle of emission of one of these lights is the Brewster angle, reflection loss is further reduced.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser beam generator capable of reducing deterioration in output laser beam quality along with the lapse of time in comparison with a conventional one. SOLUTION: Knife edges 153a and 153b in an external resonator 15 are constructed of dielectrics. In this way, change along the lapse of time caused by heat generated by laser beam absorption is reduced in the knife edges 153a and 153b. In the knife edges 153a and 153b, laser beam incidence surfaces (transmission surfaces) S1 and S21 and the like are formed into optical smooth surfaces not parallel to each other, and at least a part of incident laser beams (laser beams LB) to the optical smooth surfaces is refracted. In this way, deterioration along with the lapse of time due to scattered light can be reduced in an optical element (a wavelength conversion crystal 152 and the like) in the external resonator 15. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser beam generator that stabilizes the laser beam of a wavelength band of ≤ about 200 nm, for example, and outputs the laser beam with a narrow wavelength width by sum frequency mixture. SOLUTION: The laser beam includes: a fiber laser light source 10 for output of a laser beam L1 of wavelength λ 1 by a double clad fiber containing erbium (Er) in a core; a fiber laser light source 11 for output of a laser beam L2 of wavelength λ 2 by a double clad fiber which containing ytterbium (Yb) or neodymium (Nd) in a core; external resonators 14A, 14B, 15A-15C; and a nonlinear optical element 17. The laser beam L1 is subjected to frequency conversion through external resonators 14A and 14B and the laser beam L2 is subjected to frequency conversion through external resonators 15A-15C. Both the beams are made incident on the nonlinear optical element 17 simultaneously, respectively, and a laser beam L3 of wavelength λ 3 is generated as a sum frequency. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve stable locking by using one modulation signal when generating desired laser light in accordance with an FM sideband method by using a plurality of external resonators. SOLUTION: A laser light generating apparatus 1 includes a laser light source 2, a phase-modulator 4, a signal generating unit 3 for applying a modulation signal applied to the phase-modulator, a plurality of external resonators 6 and 9. Nonlinear optical elements 7 and 10 are provided in the external resonators 6 and 9, and an optical path length varying means 18 for varying optical path lengths of respective external resonators 6 and 9 is provided. A control circuit 19 is formed which has a negative feedback arrangement configured to obtain error signals by using detection signals of photodetectors 14 and 15 receiving light from each of the external resonators 6 and 9 and configured to control resonator length by controlling the optical path length varying means 18 according to the FM sideband method. Then, a frequency of a modulation signal is set to a value resulting from averaging S/N of error signals obtained from respective external resonators, thereby stable locking of each external resonator is achieved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device capable of surely preventing malfunction of various electronic equipment caused by unwanted infrared light radiated from a light emitting part of a light source. SOLUTION: The display device (liquid crystal display device or the like) is equipped with: the light source (CCFL or the like) of which the light emitting part radiates visible light and infrared light; and a display surface from which the light radiated from this light source is made to exit, wherein a substance containing at least one kind of rare-earth elements selected from a group consisting of scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium is prepared between the light emitting part of the light source and the display surface, and/or on the display surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state laser beam oscillator and a solid-state laser beam oscillation device capable of surely performing single vertical mode oscillation and generating the completely round laser beam in a single horizontal mode. SOLUTION: A parallelism adjusting device 10 for adjusting optical parallelism between a reflection surface 7 and an output coupler 6 is provided. The parallelism adjusting device is constituted of a holding member 11 which holds the output coupler, and a holding member 12 which holds the reflection surface. On the holding member 11 and the holding member 12, a first fitting surface 11A and a second fitting surface 11A are formed to be abutted each other by one and the other of a concave spherical surface and a convex spherical surface having the same curvature, or one and the other of a concave conical surface and the convex spherical surface. By mutually sliding and swinging both fitting surfaces in the state of abutting them, a resonator length is accurately set, and the parallelism of the reflection surface and the output coupler is adjusted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize external radiation of unnecessary light, internally-reflected light and scattered light into outside a package, avoid increase in cost and size, stabilize operation by reducing returned light, and control the polarization of outgoing light, etc. while minimizing the number of parts. SOLUTION: In a small, integrated SHG laser beam generator, a wavelength conversion element 3 is provided in a resonator of a solid-state laser oscillator excited by a semiconductor laser element 8 so that strong solid-state laser oscillation light accumulated in the resonator produces an SHG laser beam having a high efficiency and a short wavelength. A package 1 is partitioned into inside and outside of the package 1 of the generator are partitioned, and a film for separating light having a predetermined wavelength from the SHG laser beam is provided at least on one of surfaces of a light transmitting means (window 2) provided at outgoing port of the SGH laser beam. The window 2 constitutes a material having a wedge shape or having a lens effect; an element for controlling polarization, frequency, phase, etc. on a time basis; an apature, a slit and so on for passing only a main beam in the laser beam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a laser light generating device small-sized while efficiently generating laser light in the ultraviolet range. SOLUTION: The laser light generating device is so constituted that output light having 1st wavelength obtained by a semiconductor laser 1 containing gallium nitride is introduced into an external resonator 10 using nonlinear optical crystal 15. The output light is thus passed through the nonlinear optical crystal 15 and then ultraviolet rays which are reduced in wavelength are outputted as laser light. Further, the nonlinear optical crystal is held at low temperature to make the wavelength shorter.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably obtain laser beams which are continuously emitted at wavelengths of 185 to 200 nm with good energy efficiency. SOLUTION: The first laser beam which is a continuous light of 500 to 550 nm in wavelength is outputted by a laser oscillator 11. This first laser beam is made incident on a first resonator 12 and is subjected to wavelength conversion by a solid-state laser crystal, by which the second laser beam of 650 to 900 nm in wavelength is generated. On the other hand, the first laser beam is made incident on a wavelength conversion section 13 as well and is subjected to wavelength conversion by a wavelength conversion crystal 44, by which the third laser beam of 250 to 275 nm in wavelength is generated. The fourth laser beam of 185 to 200 nm in wavelength is generated by sum frequency mixing of the second laser beam and the third laser beam.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make feasible the stable control of longitudinal mode distribution including the oscillation of Q switch laser in a plurality of frequency and central frequency and wavelength width, by a method wherein the outgoing beams from an injected wave beam source is synchronously injected with the Q switch laser beam source. SOLUTION: A laser beam emitter is composed of Q switch laser part 1 and an injecting laser part 2 as an injecting laser wave beam source for synchronously injecting with the Q switch laser part 1. Next, the outgoing beams from a resonator 2 of the injecting laser part 2 are led into the resonator of the Q switch laser 1 as the injecting beams by reflection using a mirror 3 and a polarizer 17 or the mirror 23 only, while passing through an isolator 5 and a beam modulator 26 provided if necessary. In such a constitution, the beams having the spectrum exceeding two frequencies are used as the injecting beams so that wavelength distribution of the injecting beams and the resonator mode in the Q switch laser part 1 may be duplicated, thereby enabling the Q switch laser part 1 to be oscillated in a plurality of modes.