摘要:
A simple and high-reliability constitution provides a solid-state laser system that allows a high-output, long-pulse-width laser beam to be obtained. A solid-state laser system that includes a solid-state laser medium 1, a light source 2 for pumping the solid-state laser medium 1, two reflecting mirrors 3 and 4 for flanking the solid-state laser medium 1, thereby constituting a laser resonator, is constituted in such a manner that a virtual-mirror plane 5 is defined in the space between the solid-state laser medium 1 and the reflecting mirror 4; a lens 6 is provided between the virtual-mirror plane 5 and the reflecting mirror 4; and, by means of the forward and backward paths along the route from the virtual-mirror plane to the reflecting mirror by way of the lens, the virtual-mirror plane in the forward path and the virtual-mirror plane in the backward path are made in an optically conjugated relationship with each other.
摘要:
A process for making a polycrystalline silicon film includes forming, on a glass substrate, an amorphous silicon film having a first region and a second region that contacts the first region, forming a first polycrystalline portion by irradiating the first region of the amorphous silicon film with laser light having a wavelength not less than 390 nm and not more than 640 nm and forming a second polycrystalline portion that contacts the first polycrystalline portion by irradiating the second region and the portion of the region of the first polycrystalline portion that contacts the second region of the amorphous silicon film with the laser light.
摘要:
A wavelength conversion apparatus in which output direction of a wavelength-converted laser beam, having a wavelength converted by a nonlinear optical crystal and emitted through an output-window, can be brought close to the direction of optical axis of the laser beam passing through the nonlinear optical crystal. In addition, axial deviation of the wavelength-converted laser beam converted by the nonlinear optical crystal and emitted through an output-window, can be reduced when the position of the nonlinear optical crystal is moved. The output facet of the nonlinear optical crystal is inclined at Brewster's angle with respect to the wavelength-converted laser beam. An output-window of a case containing the nonlinear optical crystal has a prism form in which the distance between a laser beam input facet and a laser beam output facet of the output-window is reduced along a direction in which the wavelength-converted laser beam, emitted from the nonlinear optical crystal, inclines.
摘要:
Lengths of both sides of each end plane of a light-intensity distribution uniformizing element receiving a light flux and having an F-number of 1 are set to ½ of those of a reflecting surface of a reflecting optical-spatial modulator element, position information of uniformed light fluxes output from the light-intensity distribution uniformizing element is Fourier-transformed into diverging angle information indicated by incident light fluxes output from a first group of lenses, a relay deformed diaphragm intercepts an interference component of each incident light flux, which is expected to interfere with an outgoing light flux, to produce asymmetric light fluxes, the asymmetric light fluxes are incident on the reflecting optical-spatial modulator element, a projection lens deformed diaphragm removes stray light from outgoing light fluxes output from the reflecting optical-spatial modulator element, and an image is displayed according to the outgoing light fluxes.
摘要:
According to the present invention there is provided a laser apparatus capable of efficient oscillation with an excitation power source with comparatively low frequency, wherein discharge is obliquely generated within the rectangular section of a discharge space. There is also provided a laser apparatus with a pair of preliminary discharge excitation electrodes which can readily initiate discharge. There is further provided a laser apparatus capable of efficient oscillation with an excitation power source with comparatively low frequency, wherein provided is a pair of discharge excitation electrodes located in the major side direction of discharge space whose length is more than three times as long as that of minor side direction thereof. There is further provided a laser apparatus with a pair of discharge excitation electrodes whose dimension is smaller than that of a pair of dielectric plates, which apparatus can prevent undesirable discharge. There is also provided a laser apparatus with more than three discharge spaces at least one of which is given a lower electric field having the apparatus oscillate efficiently. There is further provided a laser apparatus with an improved oscillation efficiency wherein furnished are dielectric double pipes creating a substantially large discharge space.
摘要:
A microwave plasma apparatus comprises a discharge chamber for generating a plasma. A dielectric plate is placed on a surface of the discharge chamber. A microwave circuit surrounds the longitudinal side surface of the dielectric plate and the microwave circuit is adapted to couple the signal propagating therein to the dielectric plate, whereby a microwave electric field is formed within the discharge chamber to generate a plasma therein. The microwave circuit may comprise a rectangular waveguide, and a part of a wall surface of the rectangular waveguide is utilized as a terminal portion.
摘要:
A laser machining apparatus, including: a laser light source; a transparent member that is set on an optical path of a laser beam and transmits the laser beam; a contact type temperature difference sensor, set on a surface of the transparent member outside an irradiation range of the laser beam, for detecting a temperature difference between a surface of the transparent member, which is spaced apart from a center of the transparent member by a first distance, and another surface of the transparent member, which is spaced apart from the center of the transparent member by a second distance larger than the first distance; and a controller correcting a focal position based on the temperature difference detected by the contact type temperature difference sensor to stabilize a beam diameter of the laser beam condensed onto a machining object.
摘要:
A laser oscillator includes: a optical resonator having an orthogonal mirror and a partial reflection mirror; a laser gas acting as a laser medium; and a 90-degree folding mirror acting as a polarization selecting element. The orthogonal mirror has two reflecting surfaces orthogonal to each other. The 90-degree folding mirror is arranged such that the polarization direction of the laser oscillated light is parallel to the reference axis set in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical resonator. The orthogonal mirror is arranged such that the polarization direction of the laser oscillated light is parallel to the valley line of the orthogonal mirror. This configuration can compensate anisotropy of optical characteristics in a laser medium, and stably generate linearly polarized laser light having excellent isotropy in a simple manner.
摘要:
An optical wavelength conversion element includes a cesium-lithium-borate crystal processed into a 10-mm long optical element cut in an orientation that allows a fourth harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser to be generated. A transmittance (Ta) at 3589 cm−1 in an infrared transmission spectrum of the optical element is used as an index that indicates a content of water impurities in the crystal and is independent of a polarization direction. An actual measurement of the transmittance Ta is at least 1%, without taking into account loss at an optically polished surface of the crystal. A wavelength conversion device, a ultraviolet laser irradiation apparatus, a laser processing system, and a method of manufacturing an optical wavelength conversion element are also described.
摘要:
A simple and high-reliability constitution provides a solid-state laser system that allows a high-output, long-pulse-width laser beam to be obtained.A solid-state laser system that includes a solid-state laser medium 1, a light source 2 for pumping the solid-state laser medium 1, two reflecting mirrors 3 and 4 for flanking the solid-state laser medium 1, thereby constituting a laser resonator, is constituted in such a manner that a virtual-mirror plane 5 is defined in the space between the solid-state laser medium 1 and the reflecting mirror 4; a lens 6 is provided between the virtual-mirror plane 5 and the reflecting mirror 4; and, by means of the forward and backward paths along the route from the virtual-mirror plane to the reflecting mirror by way of the lens, the virtual-mirror plane in the forward path and the virtual-mirror plane in the backward path are made in an optically conjugated relationship with each other.