摘要:
A lidar includes CW laser light sources 1 and 2 that oscillate CW laser light rays with wavelengths different from each other; an optical multiplexing coupler 3 that mixes the CW laser light rays oscillated by the CW laser light sources 1 and 2; an optical branching coupler 4 that splits the CW laser light passing through the mixing by the optical multiplexing coupler 3; a light modulator 5 that modulates first CW laser light split by the optical branching coupler 4; and an optical fiber amplifier 6 that amplifies the laser light modulated by the light modulator 5, in which a transmit-receive optical system 8 irradiates a target with the laser light amplified by the optical fiber amplifier 6, and receives scattered light of the laser light by the target.
摘要:
Provided is a laser radar system which is capable of achieving all a wide two-dimensional field of view, a large reception aperture, and responsiveness to a short pulse light. The laser radar system includes: a laser light source for generating pulse laser light; a scanner for transmitting a transmitting pulse toward a target while two-dimensionally scanning a pencil-shaped transmitting beam, and outputting scan angle information; a lens of the receiver for receiving received light which has arrived; a high aspect photo detector array for converting the received light into a received signal and outputting the received signal; a transimpedance amplifier array for amplifying the received signal; an adder circuit for adding the received signal from each element of the transimpedance amplifier array; a distance detecting circuit for measuring a light round-trip time to the target of an output signal from the adder circuit; and a signal processing unit for causing the scanner to perform a two-dimensional scanning operation in association with the scan angle information, to thereby determine distances to multiple points on the target based on the light round-trip time and a speed of light and measure a three-dimensional shape of the target.
摘要:
A transmission module for carrying out not only phase control but also amplitude control in a continuous manner is achieved, while suppressing amplitude and phase variation, and a high frequency amplifier in the transmission module is made highly efficient. In addition, a large directional gain, a low side lobe level and a low power consumption are achieved, as a phased array antenna apparatus using a transmission module. The transmission module is provided with a power supply voltage control unit that sets a power supply voltage to the high frequency amplifier (3) in a variable manner, and a control circuit (7) that controls an amplitude control unit, a phase control unit and the power supply voltage control unit. The control circuit (7) and the power supply voltage control unit control the power supply voltage in accordance with an output power of the high frequency amplifier (3).
摘要:
An end surface 3b of a solid-state laser element 3 is sloped in such a way that, in a case in which it is assumed that laser light is incident upon air from the end surface 3b, an angle of incidence which a normal to an end face on a side of the solid-state laser element 3 in a plane of the incidence forms with a traveling direction of the laser light substantially matches the Brewster angle at the incidence plane, an end surface 4a of a wavelength conversion element 4 is sloped in such a way that, in a case in which it is assumed that the laser light is incident upon air from the end surface 4a, an angle of incidence which a normal to an end face on a side of the wavelength conversion element 4 in a plane of the incidence forms with a traveling direction of the laser light substantially matches the Brewster angle at the incidence plane, and the end surface 3b and the end surface 4b are arranged in such a way as to be opposite to each other.
摘要:
A plane waveguide type laser according to the present invention includes: a plate-shaped laser medium (5); a semiconductor laser (1) which causes excitation light to enter an end surface (5a) of the laser medium (5); first and second claddings (4a and 4b) which are bonded to lower and upper surfaces of the laser medium (5), respectively, to form a waveguide in a vertical direction; a comb heat sink (2) bonded to a lower surface of the first cladding (4a); and thermal lens producing means (20) bonded to an upper surface of the second cladding (4b). In this structure, laser oscillation in the vertical direction is performed in a waveguide mode of the laser medium (5), and the thermal lens producing means (20) forms a periodic lens effect in the laser medium (5) to perform laser oscillation in a lateral direction in a plurality of resonant modes. Therefore, a resonator having a small round-trip loss may be formed without depending on a size of a thermal lens produced by excitation, and hence a rising characteristic of a pulse operation or a CW operation may be smoothed to obtain high-power stable output.
摘要:
An optical wavelength conversion element (1) includes: a wavelength conversion waveguide (5) that has a periodic polarization reversal structure having alternately and cyclically formed domains (12a and 12b) of which polarization directions are inverted, guides light as a fundamental wave corresponding to the periodic polarization reversal structure, and performs a wavelength conversion of the guided fundamental wave; a first clad (4) that is made of a dielectric having a refractive index lower than that of the wavelength conversion waveguide (5) and is provided in contact with the domains (12a and 12b); a second clad (4) that is made of a dielectric having a refractive index lower than that of the wavelength conversion waveguide (5) and is provided in contact with the domains (12a and 12b) such that the second clad (4) is opposed to the first clad film (4); a first conducting unit (3) that electrically connects the domains (12a and 12b) in parallel via the first clad (4); and a second conducting unit that electrically connects the domains (12a and 12b) in parallel via the second clad (4).