摘要:
A solid-state light source apparatus includes a first excitation laser light source for outputting a laser beam of a first wavelength, a second excitation laser light source for outputting a laser beam of a second wavelength, a difference frequency between the laser beam of the first wavelength and the laser beam of the second wavelength being in a terahertz band, and a semiconductor pseudo phase matching device which is disposed at a place where a first optical axis of the laser beam of the first wavelength overlaps with a second optical axis of the laser beam of the second wavelength, and generates a terahertz beam in a direction coaxial with the first and second optical axes on the basis of irradiation of the laser beams of the first and second wavelengths. Thus, high output and high efficiency terahertz wave generation can be easily and certainly realized while a narrow line width characteristic is maintained.
摘要:
A planar waveguide laser device forms a waveguide by a plate-like laser medium (1) having birefringence and clad (2a, 2b) attached to at least one of the surfaces of the laser medium (1) perpendicular to its thickness direction, amplifies laser light by a gain produced by excitation light incident on the laser medium (1), and performs laser oscillation. The laser medium (1) is formed of a material having an optic axis on a cross section perpendicular to the light axis, which is the laser travelling direction. The clad (2a, 2b) is formed of a material having a refractive index in a range between refractive indexes of two polarized lights that travel along the light axis in the laser medium (1) and have oscillation surfaces that are orthogonal to each other. The planar waveguide laser device readily oscillates linearly polarized laser light.
摘要:
A planar waveguide laser device forms a waveguide by a plate-like laser medium having birefringence and clad attached to at least one of the surfaces of the laser medium perpendicular to its thickness direction, amplifies laser light by a gain produced by excitation light incident on the laser medium, and performs laser oscillation. The laser medium is formed of a material having an optic axis on a cross section perpendicular to the light axis, which is the laser travelling direction. The clad is formed of a material having a refractive index in a range between refractive indexes of two polarized lights that travel along the light axis in the laser medium and have oscillation surfaces that are orthogonal to each other. The planar waveguide laser device readily oscillates linearly polarized laser light.
摘要:
A wavelength conversion laser device includes a solid-state laser element having a waveguide structure including a laser medium that amplifies laser beams by providing a gain generated due to absorption of pump light to the laser beams and outputs a fundamental wave, and a wavelength conversion element having a waveguide structure including a nonlinear optical material that converts a part of a fundamental wave output from the solid-state laser element to a second harmonic, to resonate the fundamental wave by an optical resonator structure including the solid-state laser element and the wavelength conversion element and outputs a second harmonic from the wavelength conversion element. The solid-state laser element outputs a linearly polarized fundamental wave, and differentiates a polarization state of a fundamental wave having passed through the wavelength conversion element and entering into the solid-state laser element from linear polarization output from the solid-state laser element, so that wavelength conversion efficiency of the wavelength conversion element is not decreased in a peak wavelength of a gain band.
摘要:
A wavelength conversion laser device includes a solid-state laser element having a waveguide structure including a laser medium that amplifies laser beams by providing a gain generated due to absorption of pump light to the laser beams and outputs a fundamental wave, and a wavelength conversion element having a waveguide structure including a nonlinear optical material that converts a part of a fundamental wave output from the solid-state laser element to a second harmonic, to resonate the fundamental wave by an optical resonator structure including the solid-state laser element and the wavelength conversion element and outputs a second harmonic from the wavelength conversion element. The solid-state laser element outputs a linearly polarized fundamental wave, and differentiates a polarization state of a fundamental wave having passed through the wavelength conversion element and entering into the solid-state laser element from linear polarization output from the solid-state laser element, so that wavelength conversion efficiency of the wavelength conversion element is not decreased in a peak wavelength of a gain band.
摘要:
A solid-state laser rod pumping module has a stack-type semiconductor laser including a plurality of bar-shaped components that are stacked in a direction parallel to the axis of a solid-state laser rod. Each bar-shaped component includes a plurality of laser-light-emitting portions that are aligned and integrated in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the solid-state laser rod. The large divergence angle of the stack-type semiconductor can be compensated by including a light focusing component for focusing laser light emitted out of the stack-type semiconductor laser. The focused light is guided by a laser light guiding component disposed in a diffusive reflection tube. A light guiding component guides the focused light onto a solid-state laser rod located within the diffusive reflective tube, while maintaining the length of one side of the cross section of the guided light.
摘要:
A solid state laser pumping module (1) is so constructed as to have a plate-shaped non-doped medium (4) having a refractive index close to that of a thin solid state laser medium (3) and having no active material, the non-doped medium being disposed on a surface of the thin solid state laser medium (3) which is opposite to a reflecting surface of the thin solid state laser medium (3). Pumping light is reflected between the reflecting surface of the thin solid state laser medium (3) and a reflecting surface of the non-doped medium (4) arranged on a side of the opposite surface of the thin solid state laser medium (3) while pumping the thin solid state laser medium (3). A laser beam is taken out of the thin solid state laser medium.
摘要:
A solid-state laser rod pumping module has a stack-type semiconductor laser including a plurality of bar-shaped components that are stacked in a direction parallel to the axis of a solid-state laser rod. Each bar-shaped component includes a plurality of laser-light-emitting portions that are aligned and integrated in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the solid-state laser rod. The large divergence angle of the stack-type semiconductor can be compensated by including a light focusing component for focusing laser light emitted out of the stack-type semiconductor laser. The focused light is guided by a laser light guiding component disposed in a diffusive reflection tube. A light guiding component guides the focused light onto a solid-state laser rod located within the diffusive reflective tube, while maintaining the length of one side of the cross section of the guided light.
摘要:
A plane waveguide type laser according to the present invention includes: a plate-shaped laser medium (5); a semiconductor laser (1) which causes excitation light to enter an end surface (5a) of the laser medium (5); first and second claddings (4a and 4b) which are bonded to lower and upper surfaces of the laser medium (5), respectively, to form a waveguide in a vertical direction; a comb heat sink (2) bonded to a lower surface of the first cladding (4a); and thermal lens producing means (20) bonded to an upper surface of the second cladding (4b). In this structure, laser oscillation in the vertical direction is performed in a waveguide mode of the laser medium (5), and the thermal lens producing means (20) forms a periodic lens effect in the laser medium (5) to perform laser oscillation in a lateral direction in a plurality of resonant modes. Therefore, a resonator having a small round-trip loss maybe formed without depending on a size of a thermal lens produced by excitation, and hence a rising characteristic of a pulse operation or a CW operation may be smoothed to obtain high-power stable output.
摘要:
To suppress the amplification of spontaneous emission light in a principal plane width direction to thereby suppress a gain in directions other than a beam axis direction and output a high-power laser, in a solid-state laser element of a plane waveguide type that causes a fundamental wave laser beam to oscillate in a beam axis direction in a laser medium of a flat shape and forms a waveguide structure in a thickness direction as a direction perpendicular to a principal plane of the flat shape in the laser medium, inclined sections 12 are provided on both sides of the laser medium, the inclined sections 12 inclining a predetermined angle to reflect spontaneous emission light in the laser medium to a principal plane side of the flat shape, the spontaneous emission light traveling in the beam axis direction and a principal plane width direction as a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.