Abstract:
A wavelength conversion laser is provided with a pair of fundamental wave reflecting surfaces for reflecting a fundamental wave to define a plurality of fundamental wave paths passing a wavelength conversion element at different angles, and a control unit for controlling wavelength conversion efficiencies so that the wavelength conversion efficiency on a specific one of the plurality of fundamental wave paths extending in different directions between the pair of fundamental wave reflecting surfaces is highest.
Abstract:
A fiber laser light source is provided with a laser resonator including a pair of fiber gratings optically connected to a fiber in a state that the fiber is interposed between the paired fiber gratings. The reflection center wavelength of a laser-exit side fiber grating, out of the paired fiber gratings, lies in a wavelength range where the reflectance of a fiber grating, out of the paired fiber gratings, closer to the pump laser light source is not smaller than 80% but not larger than 98%.
Abstract:
A short wavelength light source includes a wavelength conversion element having an incident surface, on which a fundamental wave is incident, and an output surface, from which a harmonic wave is outputted. The wavelength conversion element converts the fundamental wave into the harmonic wave. In addition, the wavelength conversion element includes a holder holding the wavelength conversion element, wherein the wavelength conversion element has a specific region on a light output side, which is arranged so as to suppress variations in phase matching condition between the fundamental wave and the harmonic wave resulting from heat generated by absorbing the harmonic wave during a wavelength conversion.
Abstract:
A video projector includes a laser projection unit that has linear-polarization short-wavelength laser light sources and emits laser lights from the laser light sources, a lens system that collects the laser lights from the laser projection unit, a liquid crystal cell that spatially modulates the collected laser lights, a camera shake correcting optical system that is capable of translating vertically and horizontally on a plane that is perpendicular to the optical axis of the laser projection unit, a prism that transmits the laser lights from the liquid crystal cell and branches the light reflected by the screen, and a camera device that can observe or capture the video image that is branched by the prism. The present invention provides a video projector that can prevent the camera shake and can be held in hands.
Abstract:
A wavelength conversion laser device includes a laser light source which emits a laser beam, two reflective surfaces which reflect therefrom a laser beam, a wavelength converter provided between the two reflective surfaces, which converts a laser beam into a wavelength-converted laser beam, and condensing optics which condense the laser beams to be injected between the two reflective surfaces, wherein at least one of the two reflective surfaces has a curvature for reflecting a laser beam to be re-injected into the wavelength converter between the two reflective surfaces repeatedly while forming multi paths of laser beams injected into the wavelength converter at different incident angles, and the condensing optics are arranged to disperse beam waists of the laser beams in the wavelength converter, which reciprocate between the two reflective surfaces.
Abstract:
An image display device and an image display system which can establish visible light communication without interfering with an image displayed at a predetermined frame rate are provided. A controller controls a spatial light modulator in accordance with an image signal to display the image, and also modulates an intensity of a visible light output from a backlight with a frequency higher than the frame rate of the image signal to have the visible light output from the backlight carry additional information. A light receiver receives the visible light and demodulates to extract the additional information. An additional information generator outputs the additional information.
Abstract:
A laser image display device includes: a first laser light source capable of outputting a laser light having a first wavelength; a second laser light source capable of outputting a laser light having a second wavelength; and a color output conversion controller capable of individually controlling power of the first and the second laser light source displaying the pixels constituting an image according to an input signal. When an input signal is contained at the end point of the color reproducible region and the laser light having the first wavelength is driven substantially by a first maximum power while the laser light having the second wavelength is driven substantially by a second minimum power, the color output conversion controller displays in pixels, a color contained in the color reproducible region excluding the end point in the pixels by using the laser light of the first wavelength at a first power below the first maximum power and the laser light of the second wavelength at a second power above the second minimum power.
Abstract:
A holographic optical information recording/reproducing device is provided with a laser light source 1 and a polarizing beam splitter 8 for splitting a light from the laser light source 1. At the time of recording information, one of light beams split by the polarizing beam splitter 8 is modulated by a spatial light modulating element 2 to form a beam array, which becomes a signal light 25, whereas the other split light beam becomes a reference light 22. Interference fringes generated by the signal light 25 and the reference light 22 are recorded as holograms in a holographic disc 5. At the time of reproducing the information, only the reference light 22 is irradiated to the holographic disc 5 and its diffracted light is detected. At this time, the holographic optical information recording/reproducing device makes the power of the reference light 22 in the holographic disc 5 for information reproduction larger than a sum of the power of the reference light 22 and the power of the signal light 25 in the holographic disc 5 for information recording.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a planar lighting device (1) including: a laser light source (12) which emits a linearly-polarized laser beam; an optical member (13) which receives the laser beam, then parallelize the laser beam, and emits the parallelized laser beam; and a first plate-shaped light guide (20) which receives the parallelized laser beam from an end face portion (20d) and emits the parallelized laser beam from a first major surface (20b). The first light guide includes an optical element (20a) which receives the linearly-polarized parallelized laser beam propagated through the first light guide and emits at least a part of the linearly-polarized parallelized laser beam in a direction substantially vertical to the first major surface. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device (3) using the planar lighting device (1) as a backlight lighting device.
Abstract:
A compact liquid crystal display device is provided by connecting a plurality of liquid crystal display panel units each provided with a light guiding plate unit on a back side with a connection portion and supplying a laser light source via the connection portion. It includes a plurality of display portions formed of liquid crystal display panel units and light guiding plate units disposed in intimate contact with the back sides of the liquid crystal display panel units, a connection portion connecting a plurality of the display portions, and a laser light source. By supplying a laser beam emitted from the laser light source to the light guiding plate units via the connection portion, the display surfaces of the liquid crystal display panel units are illuminated by the laser beam.