Abstract:
A laser drive device, a laser light emitting device and a laser driving method capable of preventing deterioration or failure of a laser element due to returned lights by defining a control limitation value taking into account an affection of the returned lights to the laser element by calculating a control limitation value of an output or current of the laser element based on first laser characteristic information on transmittance or reflectance of an output end face of the laser element, second laser characteristic information on a rated output value, or a rated current value and an oscillation threshold current value and third laser characteristic information on a returned light rate to the output end face of the laser element, so that a control limitation value taking into account an affection of the returned light is determined; then, by comparing said calculated control limitation value with an input control value; and driving the laser element in accordance with the control value when the control value is smaller than the control limitation value.
Abstract:
A laser diode capable of effectively inhibiting effects of return light is provided. A laser diode includes a substrate, and a laminated structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer having a light emitting region, and a second conductive semiconductor layer having a projecting part on the surface thereof, on the substrate, wherein a return light inhibition part is provided on a main-emitting-side end face, and effects of return light in the vicinity of lateral boundaries of the light emitting region are inhibited by the return light inhibition part.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film, wherein the control and drive circuit is further configured to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in any one or more blanking periods excluding both a blanking period immediately following the given video signal output period and a blanking period immediately preceding a next video signal output period in which the one or more horizontal scan lines will be selected next time.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to cause the electron sources included in unselected one or more horizontal scan lines not selected in the given video signal output period to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in a blanking period immediately preceding the given video signal output period.
Abstract:
A projection stereoscopic display includes: a stereoscopic display optical system receiving linearly polarized light from the light source and displaying a first picture and a second picture both having binocular parallax by linearly polarized light with polarization directions orthogonal to each other, in which the stereoscopic display optical system includes: a reflective liquid crystal panel modulating and reflecting linearly polarized light from the light source in response to a picture signal, a first polarizing device splitting the first picture from reflected light from the reflective liquid crystal panel, a retardation device converting the polarization direction of the first picture into a direction orthogonal thereto, and a second polarizing device splitting the second picture from reflected light from the reflective liquid crystal panel, and superimposing the second picture on the first picture of which the polarization direction is converted by the retardation device.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film, wherein the control and drive circuit is further configured to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in any one or more blanking periods excluding both a blanking period immediately following the given video signal output period and a blanking period immediately preceding a next video signal output period in which the one or more horizontal scan lines will be selected next time.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a packing container including: a packing container body including a leading-out section which contains an optical probe having a first end section for incoming of a laser beam and a second end section for outgoing of the incoming laser beam, which leads out the first end section of the optical probe thus contained to the exterior and which is sealed, and a window section by which the laser beam going out from the second end section of the contained optical probe is led out to the exterior; and a light-transmitting member which closes the window section and permits the laser beam to pass therethrough.
Abstract:
A laser diode which realizes NFP with a stable and uniform shape. The laser diode includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active layer, one or a plurality of strip-shaped current confinement structures confining a current which is injected into the active layer, and a stacked structure including one or a plurality of strip-shaped convex portions extending in an extending direction of the current confinement structure.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to control electron emission of the electron emission array in a blanking period in response to a signal level of the video signal produced in the given video signal output period.
Abstract:
A laser drive device, a laser light emitting device and a laser driving method capable of preventing deterioration or failure of a laser element due to returned lights by defining a control limitation value taking into account an affection of the returned lights to the laser element by calculating a control limitation value of an output or current of the laser element based on first laser characteristic information on transmittance or reflectance of an output end face of the laser element, second laser characteristic information on a rated output value, or a rated current value and an oscillation threshold current value and third laser characteristic information on a returned light rate to the output end face of the laser element, so that a control limitation value taking into account an affection of the returned light is determined; then, by comparing said calculated control limitation value with an input control value; and driving the laser element in accordance with the control value when the control value is smaller than the control limitation value.