Abstract:
An optical power transmission apparatus includes: a light emitting unit including a first optical gain generating means and a first light reflecting means; an optical fiber; a second light reflecting means; and a light receiving means. Further, the second light reflecting means is arranged nearer to the light receiving means than the optical fiber is, a first laser resonator is formed, between the first light reflecting means and the second light reflecting means, by optical connection between the first optical gain generating means and the optical fiber, and first laser light generated by the first laser resonator is configured to be incident on the light receiving means.
Abstract:
An optical amplifier device comprising an input/output section that inputs incident light and outputs emission light; a polarized light splitting section that causes a polarized light component of the incident light input from the input/output section to branch, and outputs first polarization mode light having a first polarization and second polarization mode light having a second polarization different from the first polarization; a polarization converting section that receives the first polarization mode light, converts the first polarization to the second polarization, and outputs first polarization converted light; and an optical amplifying section that amplifies the first polarization converted light input to one end of a waveguide, outputs the resulting amplified first polarization converted light from another end of the waveguide, amplifies the second polarization mode light input to the other end of the waveguide, and outputs the resulting amplified second polarization mode light from the one end of the waveguide.
Abstract:
A driving support system uses information related to objects acquired by a sensor disposed external to a subject vehicle and position information of the subject vehicle to calculate information related to objects in a periphery of the subject vehicle, and provides a warning, position information or distance information to an autonomous driving control unit or a driver of the subject vehicle. A road side information processing unit or a vehicle control unit calculates vehicle periphery information related to objects in the periphery of the subject vehicle, using the information related to objects acquired from the sensor and the position of the subject vehicle detected by the first position detection unit.
Abstract:
A method of designing a semiconductor laser device includes: controlling a distance between the output-side reflection unit and the second reflection unit and an effective optical feedback κ to the semiconductor laser element, the effective optical feedback κ defined by a below-presented formula (1) including a circulating time τ of the light in the semiconductor laser element, a reflectivity R1 of the output-side reflection unit, and a reflectivity R2 of the second reflection unit; selecting a semiconductor laser device in which an LFF period is equal to or smaller than 20 ns as a semiconductor laser device in which high speed switching occurs between an FBG mode and an FP mode; and using the selected semiconductor laser device as an semiconductor laser device oscillating in a coherent collapse mode. κ=(1/τ)×(1−R1)×(R2/R1)1/2 (1)