摘要:
Setting ratio between projection range of excitation light and projection range of white light to a desired predetermined value while maintaining sufficient biological surface illuminance for both the white light and excitation light. A light source apparatus includes a first light source (52) for emitting first light (e.g., excitation light) which is inputted to a light guide section (LG) that guides light to an examination area and projects the light onto the examination area and a second light source (50) for emitting second light (e.g., white light) which is inputted to the light guide (LG) in which exit angles of the first and second light are changed simultaneously by an exit angle changing section (57), the first and second light being guided by the light guide section (LG) and projected onto the examination area.
摘要:
In a mode-locked laser-diode-excited laser apparatus: a solid-state laser medium (15) is arranged at a distance of at most twice the Rayleigh range from a saturable absorbing mirror with a depth of absorbing modulation of at least 0.4%; the total intracavity dispersion is smaller than zero and makes oscillating light have such a pulse bandwidth that the saturable absorbing mirror (16) can suppress a background pulses other than soliton pulses repeated with a fundamental repetition period, and the magnitude of the total intracavity dispersion has a predetermined relationship with a pulse width of the oscillating light; and an output mirror is a negative-dispersion mirror (5) being constituted by three or more multilayer mirrors and cavity layers arranged at predetermined intervals between the three or more multilayer mirrors, and causing a mirror dispersion of -3000 fsec 2 to -600 fsec 2 and realizes a reflectance of 97% to 99.5%.
摘要:
To obtain a small, low cost, and highly stable solid-state laser apparatus capable of realizing femtosecond CW mode locking. In a soliton mode-locked solid-state laser apparatus having a resonator which includes a solid-state laser medium (15), a saturable absorption mirror (16), and a negative group velocity dispersion element (17), the solid-state laser medium (15) and saturable absorption mirror (16) are disposed at a distance not greater than twice a Rayleigh length. Then, the absorption modulation depth ΔR of the the saturable absorption mirror is set to a value not less than 0.4%, and the absolute value |D| (D τ P = 1.76 | D | λ 0 A eff . L 4 π n 2 ls 1 E P
摘要:
Provided is an optical connector including: an SI-type light source side optical fiber which is disposed on the light source side and an SI-type light receiving side optical fiber which is disposed on the light receiving side. Both optical fibers are optically coupled to each other by disposing an end surface of the light source side optical fiber and an end surface of the light receiving side optical fiber so as to face each other. The light source side optical fiber and the receiving side optical fiber are attachable to and detachable from each other. The light source side optical fiber includes a taper portion in which the diameter of the core portion increases toward the end surface of the light source side optical fiber.
摘要:
In a mode-locked laser-diode-excited laser apparatus: a solid-state laser medium (15) is arranged at a distance of at most twice the Rayleigh range from a saturable absorbing mirror with a depth of absorbing modulation of at least 0.4%; the total intracavity dispersion is smaller than zero and makes oscillating light have such a pulse bandwidth that the saturable absorbing mirror (16) can suppress a background pulses other than soliton pulses repeated with a fundamental repetition period; and an output mirror is a negative-dispersion mirror (5) in which high-index layers and low-index layers, having optical thicknesses randomly varying in the range of one-eighth to half of the predetermined wavelength, are alternately laminated, and the negative-dispersion mirror causes a mirror dispersion of -1000 fsec 2 to -100 fsec 2 and realizes a reflectance of 97% to 99.5%.
摘要:
To obtain a small, low cost, and highly stable solid-state laser apparatus capable of realizing femtosecond CW mode locking. In a mode-locked laser apparatus having a resonator which includes a solid-state laser medium (15), a saturable absorption mirror (16), and a negative dispersion element (17) therein, the solid-state laser medium (15) and the saturable absorption mirror (16) are disposed at a distance not greater than twice a Rayleigh length determined by the beam radius of oscillation light formed on the saturable absorption mirror (16). The apparatus further includes a dichroic mirror (13), inside of the resonator, that reflects excitation light (10) inputted from a direction that crosses the optical axis of the resonator toward the solid-state laser medium (15) and transmits oscillation light (18).
摘要:
To prevent excitation light output from an output end of a light guiding portion causing damage to the eye when the light guiding portion which guides the special light output from a light source is detached from the insertion portion. Provided is an endoscope apparatus including: an insertion portion that is inserted into a body so as to irradiate special light to a subject observation portion inside the body and receives light output from the subject observation portion by the irradiation of the special light; and a light guiding portion that is optically connected to the insertion portion and guides the special light output from a light source to the insertion portion, wherein an output end for the special light in the light guiding portion is equipped with a diffusing portion that diffuses the special light guided by the light guiding portion.
摘要:
A negative dispersion mirror (5) can generate large negative group-velocity dispersion and it can be used as an output mirror of a solid-state laser apparatus. The mirror (5) includes a substrate (6) and a dielectric multilayer coating structure (7) formed on the substrate (6). The multilayer coating structure (7) includes two mirror-function layer portions (ML 1 , ML 2 ), each formed by a plurality of layers deposited one on another, and a cavity layer (C) that is arranged between the two mirror-function layer portions (ML 1 , ML 2 ), and which causes light (L) having a predetermined wavelength to resonate between the two mirror-function layer portions (ML 1 , ML 2 ). Further, a dispersion value with respect to the light (L) having the predetermined wavelength is in the range of -600fs 2 to -3000fs 2 and a reflectance with respect to the light (L) having the predetermined wavelength is in the range of 97% to 99.5%.
摘要:
There is provided a mode locked laser device including: a cavity, the cavity having a semiconductor saturable absorbing mirror (14) and a negative dispersion mirror (20) that controls group velocity dispersion within the cavity, disposed in a straight line; a solid-state laser medium (16), disposed in the cavity and outputting oscillating light due to excitation light being incident thereon; an excitation unit that causes the excitation light to be incident on the solid-state laser medium; and a cavity holder (34), the light incident face of the semiconductor saturable absorbing mirror (14) attached to one end of the cavity holder (34), the negative dispersion mirror (20) attached to the other end of the cavity holder (34), and the cavity holder integrally supporting the semiconductor saturable absorbing mirror and the negative dispersion mirror. SESAM (14) and solid-state laser medium (16) are temperature controlled with a Peltier cooler (22). The laser emits at high repetition rates soliton pulses stably.
摘要:
To obtain a small, low cost, and highly stable solid-state laser apparatus capable of realizing femtosecond CW mode locking. In a mode-locked laser apparatus having a resonator which includes a solid-state laser medium (15), a saturable absorption mirror (16), and a negative dispersion element (17) therein, the solid-state laser medium (15) and the saturable absorption mirror (16) are disposed at a distance not greater than twice a Rayleigh length determined by the beam radius of oscillation light formed on the saturable absorption mirror (16). The apparatus further includes a dichroic mirror (13), inside of the resonator, that reflects excitation light (10) inputted from a direction that crosses the optical axis of the resonator toward the solid-state laser medium (15) and transmits oscillation light (18).