摘要:
A solid state laser excited by a semiconductor laser can generate a stable and highly efficient high power laser beam. The laser apparatus includes a solid state laser element containing an active medium, a semiconductor laser for optically exciting the solid state laser element, a power supply for supplying pulses of current having magnitudes that change with time during each pulse to the semiconductor laser, and an optical resonator for emission of a laser beam from the solid state laser element. When the semiconductor laser is driven with the pulses that change in magnitude during each pulse, it produces pulsed excitation light that excites the solid state laser element. A stable laser beam is produced because changes in thermally sensitive light-generating parameters of the semiconductor laser are compensated.
摘要:
A laser oscillator includes a light condensing block having a through-hole for housing a laser medium, and an aperture for introducing excitation light from an excitation light source module into the through-hole; an end plate fixed to an end of the light condensing block, in which a cooling water channel for leading cooling water to the light condensing block and a cooling water channel for leading cooling water to the excitation light source module are formed; and a flow tube fixed and sealed by the end plate, for forming a cooling water passage for the laser medium; and an excitation light source module in which a cooling water channel, communicating with the water channel for the excitation light source module in the end plate, is formed for cooling its excitation light source.
摘要:
A wavelength conversion crystal including: a single nonlinear optical crystal which satisfies both of a first phase-matching condition and a second phase-matching condition, the first phase-matching condition being required for first wavelength conversion to convert a fundamental wave having a wavelength of 1064 nm into a second harmonic having a wavelength of 532 nm, and the second phase-matching condition being required for second wavelength conversion to convert the light having a wavelength of 532 nm into a fourth harmonic having a wavelength of 266 nm; and a first reflective face and a second reflective face for reflecting the light having a wavelength of 532 nm generated by the first wavelength conversion to supply it to the second wavelength conversion. This approach can efficiently generate a third or higher-order harmonic with a reliable and simple configuration.
摘要:
A wavelength conversion crystal including: a single nonlinear optical crystal which satisfies both of a first phase-matching condition and a second phase-matching condition, the first phase-matching condition being required for first wavelength conversion to convert a fundamental wave having a wavelength of 1064 nm into a second harmonic having a wavelength of 532 nm, and the second phase-matching condition being required for second wavelength conversion to convert the light having a wavelength of 532 nm into a fourth harmonic having a wavelength of 266 nm; and a first reflective face and a second reflective face for reflecting the light having a wavelength of 532 nm generated by the first wavelength conversion to supply it to the second wavelength conversion. This approach can efficiently generate a third or higher-order harmonic with a reliable and simple configuration.
摘要:
A laser oscillator includes a light condensing block having a through-hole for housing a laser medium, and an aperture for introducing excitation light from an excitation light source module into the through-hole; an end plate fixed to an end of the light condensing block, in which a cooling water channel for leading cooling water to the light condensing block and a cooling water channel for leading cooling water to the excitation light source module are formed; and a flow tube fixed and sealed by the end plate, for forming a cooling water passage for the laser medium; and an excitation light source module in which a cooling water channel, communicating with the water channel for the excitation light source module in the end plate, is formed for cooling its excitation light source.
摘要:
A diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier capable of homogenizing the distribution of heat dissipation levels on a section of a solid-state laser rod and not causing a bifocal phenomenon, and a diode laser pumped solid-state laser using the diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier. A diode laser pumped solid-state laser amplifier includes a solid-state laser rod having an optical axis along which a laser beam propagates and includes an active medium therein and a plurality of pumping sources having optical axes that run on a plane orthogonal to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod and are separated by a given distance from the axial core of the solid-state laser rod. When pumping light rays are projected on a plane orthogonal to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod, the plurality of pumping sources are located at equiangular intervals with respect to the axial core of the solid-state laser rod.
摘要:
In a solid-state laser device, a single outer casing (1) having an approximately sealed structure is included; a single or a plurality of inner casings (2) are provided inside the outer casing (1); in some or all of the inner casings (2), an air cleaning unit (4) is included in which the air within the outer casing (1) is made clean and supplied into the inner casings (2); inside the outer casing (1), there disposed are a laser light-source (5, 6, 7) having a solid-state laser medium (501) and a light resonator, and an optical system (10, 11, 901) that transmits or interrupts a laser beam (8) emitted from the laser light-source; in addition, the laser light-source (5, 6, 7) and the optical system (10, 11, 901) or part of them are contained inside the inner casings (2); thus, in a simple, compact and inexpensive configuration, it is possible to prevent degradation of optical components and dew condensation thereon, and to stably supply a laser beam.
摘要:
In a symmetrically stable optical resonator, a first reference plane is set at an arbitrary position between the end face (102), opposing a partial reflector (2), and the neutral point (101) of a rod type solid state laser medium (1), and an aperture (5) having a diameter substantially equal to that of the rod type solid state laser medium (1) is arranged at a position optically symmetric to the reference plane with the partial reflector (2) as a neutral point using a relay lens (6) and a coupling lens (7) arranged between the aperture (5) and an optical fiber (8), the first reference plane is transfer-relayed onto the incident end face of the optical fiber (8), and the aperture (5) is transferred onto the coupling lens (7) through the relay lens (6). Even when the focal length of thermal lens of the rod type solid state laser medium (1) or pointing of laser light is varied, beam transmission is performed by an optical fiber excellent in stability and reliability and condensation of laser light exiting the optical fiber is sustained constantly.
摘要:
A CO2 gas laser device according to the present invention amplifies CO2 laser light that oscillates repeatedly in short pulses having a pulse width of 100 ns or less, and cools a CO2 laser gas which is excited by continuous discharge by circulating the CO2 laser gas by means of forced convection. Therein, an angle θ defined by the optical axis of the amplified CO2 laser beam and the flow direction of the CO2 laser gas caused by the forced convection is determined by both a discharge cross sectional area and a discharge length of a volume in which the CO2 laser gas is excited by discharge, whereby increasing the gain of pulsed laser to achieve pulsed laser light having an extremely high average output power.
摘要:
A tri-axially orthogonal gas laser device in which an optical axis of an optical resonator, a direction in which a laser gas is supplied into the optical resonator, and a direction of discharge for exciting the laser gas are mutually orthogonal to one another, the device including: an exciting unit including a blower supplying the laser gas in −X direction to the optical axis of the optical resonator, and a discharge electrode pair which is shifted on a gas upstream side with respect to the optical axis; and an exciting unit including a blower for supplying the laser gas in +X direction to the optical axis of the optical resonator, and a discharge electrode pair which is shifted on a gas upstream side with respect to the optical axis