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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser machining apparatus that can form a reverse-tapered through-hole using a simple optical system without using a movable part that is mechanically rotated.SOLUTION: The apparatus sets a first position a, a second position b, and a third position c in this order toward the propagation direction of a laser beam 22 for machining according to the thickness of an object 20 to be machined and an opening diameter of a through-hole 20 to be formed. The outer diameter of the laser beam 22 for machining expands from the first position a to the third position c toward the propagation direction, and the inner diameter of the laser beam 22 for machining expands from the second position b to the third position c toward the propagation direction, so that the outer and inner diameters of the laser beam 22 for machining become maximum at the third position c, and a laser beam is deformed such that an image in circular is formed around the center of a light axis, thereby producing the laser beam 22 for machining. A through-hole 20C is formed on an object 20 to be machined by irradiating the object 20 placed between the first position a and the second position b with the laser beam 22 for machining.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute an appropriate vibration control as a variable vibration isolation system in response to a loading condition even though a condition for loading or transporting parts is changed. SOLUTION: The variable vibration isolation system 10 includes a vibration isolation mechanism 20 which is arranged between a floor 8 and part container body 14 allowing part 12 to be mounted thereon and which contains a spring aggregate having a plurality of spring bodies with different spring constants, a measurement part 16 for measuring the vibration acceleration of the floor 8 and a control part 30. The control part 30 specifies a vibration isolation frequency through the frequency-analysis of measured vibration acceleration and calculates a vibration isolation spring constant corresponding to the vibration isolation frequency on the basis of mass m 1 of the part container body 14 and mass m 2 of the part 12 to acquire a connection relationship between a plurality of spring bodies so as to make a total spring constant between the floor 8 and a part container body 14 to become the vibration isolation spring constant. The total spring constant between the floor 8 and part container body 14 is changed to the vibration control spring constant through the change of the connection relationship between respective spring bodies. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fiber for a fiber laser capable of acquiring a high output laser beam without increasing an additive concentration of a rare earth element. SOLUTION: The fiber 1 for the fiber laser includes: a core 2 with the rare earth element added; and a clad 3 formed at the outer circumference of the core 2. The core 2 has a fictive temperature of 1,720 to 2,000°C. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quenching method with the use of an energy beam, which can stabilize a quenching temperature of an object to be quenched by being irradiated with an energy beam such as a laser beam and can uniformly obtain an adequate quench-hardened layer having a stable quenched depth and hardness, even when there exists a dispersion of a shape, a surface quality and the like in objects to be quenched or even when the object to be quenched is quenched for the first time. SOLUTION: The quenching method includes: measuring a temperature of an irradiated portion while preliminarily irradiating a workpiece with a laser beam by scanning the beam in the same form as in a quenching operation and also scanning the beam of such a certain energy level that the temperature of the irradiated portion with the laser beam does not reach a predetermined transformation temperature, and thereby determining a correlation (graph G1) between the position of the workpiece and the preliminary irradiation temperature; calculating an anticipated temperature (graph G2) which varies depending on the position of the workpiece, by reflecting the correlation on the basis of the preliminary irradiation temperature, and previously determining such a quenching beam condition (graph G3) that the temperature of the irradiated portion can be a target quenching temperature T 0 ; and controlling a laser condition on the basis of the quenching beam condition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber for a fiber laser having high quality and high optical output, and being capable of providing output light in a single mode, and to provide a fiber laser. SOLUTION: This optical fiber 11 for a fiber laser oscillating laser light by amplifying an excitation light comprises: an optical fiber 2, having a core with a rare-earth element added therein and a cladding formed around the core; and a mode filter 6 arranged at a tip part of the optical fiber 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber whose conversion efficiency is not lowered by a thermal effect (heat dispersion) and a nonlinear effect and which has optimum absorption characteristics and to provide its producing method. SOLUTION: The optical fiber 1 comprises: a core 2 added with a rare earth element which acts as a gain medium; and a clad 3 formed on the outer periphery of the core 2, wherein the fictive temperature of the core 2 is 1,500°C or lower. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser beam condensing unit that reduces manufacturing cost by reducing the number of components and also prevents beam quality from being degraded. SOLUTION: The laser beam condensing unit 10 is equipped with: a laser bar 12 that has a plurality of light emitting points 20 arranged in an array; and optical fibers 14 that are arranged in an array in a manner opposing the light emitting points 20 of the laser bar 12 and that have light incident parts 16 formed in a cylindrical lens shape, wherein laser beams emitted from the laser bar 12 are made incident on the light incident parts 16. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beam parameter product control optical circuit having a novel mechanism which has little conversion loss and is suitable for an optical integrated circuit. SOLUTION: The waveguide type beam parameter product control optical circuit, has a cross-section perpendicular to the light wave propagation direction of the waveguide, formed in a non-rectangular shape. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the output characteristic of a semiconductor laser light source obtained by combining a semiconductor laser array and an optical multiplexer. SOLUTION: In the semiconductor laser light source obtained by combining the semiconductor laser array 1 and the optical multiplexer 2, an optical resonator is constituted of a high reflection mirror 3 arranged on the opposite side to the outgoing end of the semiconductor laser array 1 and a reflection mirror 4 arranged on the outgoing end side of the optical multiplexer 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a rod type solid laser device wherein the rate of its laser output beam guided to an optical fiber can be kept constant even when the thermal lens of its rod type solid laser medium is varied. SOLUTION: In the rod type solid laser device, a laser beam 5 is generated from a rod type solid laser medium 1 by using an optical resonator comprising a total reflecting mirror 3 and a partial reflecting mirror 4, focused by using a coupling lens 7, and guided to an optical fiber 9. The aperture diameter of an aperture 8 which restricts the diameter of the incident beam to the coupling lens 7 is made variable, and a controlling means 12 for controlling the aperture diameter is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI