摘要:
This invention relates to a solid laser device with a slab-shaped laser medium. One example of a solid laser device according to the invention, comprises: a slab-shaped laser medium having one pair of optically smooth surfaces confronting each other through the optical path; first and second mirrors arranged on the optical path in such a manner that the first and second mirrors are confronted with each other through the laser medium; a resonator which forms an unstable resonator in the direction of width of the laser medium, and a low order stable resonator in the direction of thickness of the laser medium; and laser beam emergence medium for taking a laser beam out of the a resonator and outputting the laser beam from the device. Another example comprises: a slab-shaped laser medium having a pair of optically smooth surfaces confronting each other through the optical path; first and second mirrors arranged on the optical path in such a manner that the first and second mirrors are confronted with each other through the laser medium; a resonator which forms unstable resonators in the direction of width of the laser medium and in the direction of thickness of the same; and laser beam emergence medium for taking a laser beam out of the a resonator and outputting the laser beam from the device. Accordingly, the solid laser devices can output a high power laser beam excellent in convergence, thus being applicable to precision laser machining operations.
摘要:
The invention relates to a plasma apparatus where plasma is generated utilizing microwave discharge and laser excitation is performed and plasma processing is performed. More specifically, in a plasma apparatus where a microwave from a microwave oscillator is transmitted through a microwave transmission path to a microwave circuit, and plasma is generated by a microwave discharge within the microwave circuit, a plasma generating medium for generating the plasma is filled in a space formed between a conductor wall constituting a part of the microwave circuit and a dielectric installed opposite to the conductor wall, and the microwave circuit forms microwave mode having an electric field component orthogonal to the boundary between the dielectric and the plasma.
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:
An image-scanning device having a large depth of field and being small in size. The image-scanning device includes a plurality of cells and an image pickup device that is located so as to correspond to the cells and that picks-up the formed images. Each cell includes a first lens having a first focal length; an aperture member located at the first focal length from the first lens; and a second lens located at a second focal length shorter than the first focal length, with respect to the image pickup device.
摘要:
A fundamental laser beam is wavelength converted through nonlinear optical crystals by traveling in one direction, sequentially through two nonlinear optical crystals arranged in series. A wavelength-converted laser beam is generated and includes wavelength-converted laser beams having polarized directions differing from each other by angles in a range from 45° to 90°. The two nonlinear optical crystals have crystal orientation axes differing by 45° to 90° when viewed along the optical axis of the laser beam.
摘要:
A laser optical system includes a linear beam forming member for forming laser beams radiated from laser oscillators into a linear beam shape on a silicon film on a substrate. The laser optical system is arranged so that the optical axes of laser beams from the laser oscillators to the linear beam forming member are in substantially the same plane and substantially perpendicular to the substrate. Each laser beam is reflected from a reflecting mirror and applied to the silicon film on the substrate. Since the laser beams are applied to the substrate at the same time, the area irradiated can be increased, while each radiating laser beam maintains a required radiation intensity, resulting in high productivity.
摘要:
A digital mirror dence chip has a substrate, micro-mirrors disposed on the substrate, and a glass cover plate disposed over the micro-mirrors. Each micro-mirror is inclined by +10 degrees or −10 degrees with respect to the substrate to be set to an on-state or an off-state. Incident light produced in a lighting source system is totally reflected in a total internal reflection prism and is incident on the micro-mirrors through the glass cover plate. Outgoing light reflected by micro-minors in the on-state passes through a projection lens and is projected onto a screen to form an image on the screen. Also, outgoing light reflected by micro-mirrors in the off-state passes out of the projection lens. The glass cover plate is not parallel to the substrate. Therefore, light specularly reflected by a surface of the glass cover plate passes out of the projection lens.
摘要:
A laser power supply apparatus supplies AC power to a gas contained in a laser device by way of a pair of dielectric layers, without having to use a transformer to form a high-frequency discharge in a gas to excite the gas, to cause the laser device to radiate. The laser power supply apparatus includes an inverter having arms, each arm including high-speed semiconductor switches connected in series, for directly converting a DC high voltage from a DC power supply to a series of AC output pulses having a much higher AC voltage than the DC high voltage and supplied to the laser device by simultaneously turning on and off those high-speed semiconductor switches in each of the arms, and for furnishing the series of AC output pulses to the laser device at a pair of output terminals.
摘要:
A laser system wherein, in order that a high-output and high-quality single mode of a cross sectional area larger than the beam diameter determined by the construction of a resonator can be obtained stably, although this has heretofore been impossible, there is used a coupling mirror provided with a partial reflection film and an antireflecting film, a laser beam mode is selected using the partial reflection film, a phase difference between laser beam portions caused by a difference in construction between the partial reflection film and the antireflecting film is compensated using a phase difference compensating apparatus, and there is formed an aperture whose diameter is set to a value of not larger than four times the diameter of the partial reflection film.
摘要:
A laser apparatus includes an unstable resonator having a total reflection mirror and a take-out mirror, and further includes shading means for shading a disturbed phase portion of a laser beam so as to derive exclusively a light having a uniform phase by shading the disturbed phase portion of the beam emitted from the resonator or the beam in the resonator.