Patents by Inventor Haruyasu Ito
Haruyasu Ito has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240033849Abstract: An attenuator device includes: a first window pair that includes a pair of first windows having a pair of first surfaces extending to form a Brewster's angle with an optical axis; a rotation holding portion which holds the first window pair to be rotatable around the optical axis; a second window pair that includes a pair of second windows having a pair of second surfaces extending to form a Brewster's angle with the optical axis; and a ?/4 phase element which gives a phase difference of ?/4 between a polarized component parallel to an optical axis and a polarized component orthogonal to the optical axis when a wavelength of laser light is ?. The second window pair is disposed so that a vibration direction of a P-polarized component transmitted through the second window pair is inclined with respect to the optical axis of the ?/4 phase element by 45° when viewed from a direction parallel to the optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventor: Haruyasu ITO
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Patent number: 11079618Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source for outputting initial pulsed light, a polarization control unit for rotating a polarization plane of the initial pulsed light, an optical pulse shaping unit for inputting the initial pulsed light with the rotated polarization plane, and outputting first pulsed light Lp1 having a first polarization direction and second pulsed light Lp2 having a second polarization direction different from the first polarization direction with a time, an irradiation optical system for irradiating an imaging object with the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2, a light separation element for separating the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2 reflected by or transmitted through the imaging object on the basis of the polarization directions, an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp1, and an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp2.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Koyo Watanabe, Koji Takahashi, Takashi Inoue, Haruyasu Ito
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Publication number: 20200301174Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source for outputting initial pulsed light, a polarization control unit for rotating a polarization plane of the initial pulsed light, an optical pulse shaping unit for inputting the initial pulsed light with the rotated polarization plane, and outputting first pulsed light Lp1 having a first polarization direction and second pulsed light Lp2 having a second polarization direction different from the first polarization direction with a time, an irradiation optical system for irradiating an imaging object with the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2, a light separation element for separating the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2 reflected by or transmitted through the imaging object on the basis of the polarization directions, an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp1, and an imaging unit for imaging the pulsed light Lp2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Koyo WATANABE, Koji TAKAHASHI, Takashi INOUE, Haruyasu ITO
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Patent number: 10378964Abstract: In a waveform measurement method, first, initial pulsed light is spatially dispersed for respective wavelengths. Next, the initial pulsed light is input to a polarization dependent type SLM in a state where a polarization plane is inclined with respect to a modulation axis direction, and a phase spectrum of a first polarization component of the initial pulsed light along the modulation axis direction is modulated, to cause a time difference between first pulsed light Lp1 including the first polarization component and second pulsed light Lp2 including a second polarization component orthogonal to the first polarization component. After combining the wavelength components, an object is irradiated with the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2, and light generated in the object is detected. The above detection operation is performed while changing the time difference, and a temporal waveform of the pulsed light Lp1 is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Haruyasu Ito, Koyo Watanabe
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Patent number: 10337928Abstract: An autocorrelation measurement device includes a first reflection member, a second reflection member, a focusing unit, a nonlinear optical crystal, a detection unit, a filter, an aperture, a delay adjusting unit, and an analysis unit. Incident pulsed light is transmitted through the second reflection member and incident on the first reflection member. First pulsed light reflected on a first reflection surface of the first reflection member and a second reflection surface of the second reflection member and second pulsed light reflected on a second reflection surface of the first reflection member and a first reflection surface of the second reflection member are incident on the nonlinear optical crystal via the focusing unit. Second harmonic light generated in the nonlinear optical crystal is detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Yasunori Igasaki, Junji Okuma
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Patent number: 10324285Abstract: In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+?s from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as ?s.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20190143447Abstract: A pulsed light generation apparatus includes a dispersing unit for dispersing pulsed light for respective wavelengths, a polarization dependent type spatial light modulator for modulating the dispersed pulsed light in respective wavelengths, and a combining unit for combining wavelength components of the pulsed light output from the spatial light modulator. A polarization plane of the pulsed light input to the spatial light modulator is inclined with respect to a polarization direction in which the spatial light modulator has a modulation function. The spatial light modulator causes a time difference between a first polarization component of the pulsed light along the polarization direction and a second polarization component of the pulsed light intersecting with the first polarization component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu ITO, Koji TAKAHASHI, Koyo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20190128741Abstract: In a waveform measurement method, first, initial pulsed light is spatially dispersed for respective wavelengths. Next, the initial pulsed light is input to a polarization dependent type SLM in a state where a polarization plane is inclined with respect to a modulation axis direction, and a phase spectrum of a first polarization component of the initial pulsed light along the modulation axis direction is modulated, to cause a time difference between first pulsed light Lp1 including the first polarization component and second pulsed light Lp2 including a second polarization component orthogonal to the first polarization component. After combining the wavelength components, an object is irradiated with the pulsed light Lp1 and the pulsed light Lp2, and light generated in the object is detected. The above detection operation is performed while changing the time difference, and a temporal waveform of the pulsed light Lp1 is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Koji TAKAHASHI, Haruyasu ITO, Koyo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180245984Abstract: An autocorrelation measurement device includes a first reflection member, a second reflection member, a focusing unit, a nonlinear optical crystal, a detection unit, a filter, an aperture, a delay adjusting unit, and an analysis unit. Incident pulsed light is transmitted through the second reflection member and incident on the first reflection member. First pulsed light reflected on a first reflection surface of the first reflection member and a second reflection surface of the second reflection member and second pulsed light reflected on a second reflection surface of the first reflection member and a first reflection surface of the second reflection member are incident on the nonlinear optical crystal via the focusing unit. Second harmonic light generated in the nonlinear optical crystal is detected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu ITO, Yasunori IGASAKI, Junji OKUMA
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Publication number: 20170031158Abstract: In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+?s from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as ?s.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Haruyasu ITO, Naoya MATSUMOTO, Takashi INOUE
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Patent number: 9488831Abstract: In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+?s from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as ?s.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue
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Patent number: 9415461Abstract: In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+?s from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as ?s.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20160202477Abstract: In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+?s from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as ?s.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Haruyasu ITO, Naoya MATSUMOTO, Takashi INOUE
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Patent number: 9373927Abstract: A method for designing an optical component for shaping laser light according to one embodiment of this invention measures the intensity distribution of an incident laser light, obtains the shapes in the short and long axial directions of a pair of aspheric lenses for each of the short and long axial directions of the incident laser light from the measured intensity distribution of the incident laser light and a desired intensity distribution, performs approximation of a high-order polynomial of the shapes in the short and long axial directions of the pair of aspheric lenses, corrects the high-order polynomials for the short or long axial directions using a correction factor, and obtains the shapes of the pair of aspheric lenses on the basis of the corrected high-order polynomials.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Takashi Yasuda
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Patent number: 9285579Abstract: A light modulating device (101A) comprises a reflective SLM (107) for modulating a laser beam (Lr) entering along a first optical path extending in a first direction; a dielectric multilayer film mirror (106), formed on a light transmitting member (105) transparent to illumination light (Li), for reflecting the laser beam (Lr) incident on a front face thereof from the reflective SLM (107) onto a second optical path extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and transmitting the illumination light (Li) incident on a rear face thereof onto the second optical path; and a light collecting lens (109) for receiving the illumination light (Li) and laser beam (Lr) from the dielectric multilayer film mirror (106) and converging the illumination light (Li) and laser beam (Lr).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Takashi Inoue, Naoya Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20150346685Abstract: A patterned light interference generating device 1 is provided with a laser light source 10; a wavefront controller 20 for receiving laser light, presenting a hologram pattern to control the wavefront of the laser light, and outputting wavefront-controlled light; an imaging optical system 40 for imaging the wavefront-controlled light at a target position 2; a filter 50 arranged at a portion of concentration by the imaging optical system 40; and a control unit 30 for controlling the hologram pattern; the filter 50 has a plurality of slits in one-to-one correspondence to a plurality of bright spots of a desired order; each of the plurality of slits has an elongated shape extending radially from a center of the plurality of bright spots of the desired order; one end on the center side of each of the plurality of slits is separated from the center.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Haruyasu ITO, Takashi INOUE, Hiroshi SAITO, Haruyoshi TOYODA
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Patent number: 8947771Abstract: The present invention provides an optical amplifying device which can be easily downsized, increased in output, and stabilized. An optical amplifying device 1A includes an optical amplifier 10A and an energy supplier 30. The optical amplifier 10A includes an optical amplifying medium 11 and a transparent medium 12. The energy supplier 30 supplies excitation energy (for example, excitation light) to the optical amplifying medium 11. The optical amplifying medium 11 is supplied with the excitation light to amplify light and output it. To-be-amplified light passes through the transparent medium 12 in the optical amplifying medium 11 a plurality of times. The transparent medium 12 can propagate the to-be-amplified light, for example, zigzag inside.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Koei Yamamoto, Toshiharu Moriguchi, Shingo Oishi, Masatoshi Fujimoto, Shigeru Sakamoto, Hironori Takahashi, Haruyasu Ito, Yoichi Kawada, Shinichiro Aoshima
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Publication number: 20140348190Abstract: A method for designing an optical component for shaping laser light according to one embodiment of this invention measures the intensity distribution of an incident laser light, obtains the shapes in the short and long axial directions of a pair of aspheric lenses for each of the short and long axial directions of the incident laser light from the measured intensity distribution of the incident laser light and a desired intensity distribution, performs approximation of a high-order polynomial of the shapes in the short and long axial directions of the pair of aspheric lenses, corrects the high-order polynomials for the short or long axial directions using a correction factor, and obtains the shapes of the pair of aspheric lenses on the basis of the corrected high-order polynomials.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Takashi Yasuda
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Patent number: 8867113Abstract: A laser processing device includes a laser light source, a spatial light modulator, a control section, and a condensing optical system. The spatial light modulator, presents a hologram for modulating the phase of the laser light in each of a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, and outputs the phase-modulated laser light. The control section causes a part of the phase-modulated laser light (incident light) to be condensed at a condensing position in a processing region as a laser light (contribution light) having a constant energy not less than a predetermined threshold X. The control section causes a laser light (unnecessary light) other than the contribution light condensed to the condensing position existing in the processing region to be dispersed and condensed at a condensing position existing in a non-processing region as a plurality of laser lights (non-contribution lights) having an energy less than the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue, Norihiro Fukuchi, Haruyasu Ito
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Patent number: 8810890Abstract: A laser light shaping and wavefront controlling optical system 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises an intensity conversion lens 24 for converting and shaping an intensity distribution of laser light incident thereon into a desirable intensity distribution; an optical modulation device 34 for modulating the laser light emitted from the intensity conversion lens 24 so as to control a wavefront thereof; a condenser optical system 36 for converging the laser light issued from the optical modulation device 34; and an image-forming optical system 30, arranged between the optical modulation device 34 and the condenser optical system 36, having an entrance-side imaging plane between a plane 24x where the laser light emitted from the intensity conversion lens 24 attains the desirable intensity distribution and a modulation plane 34a of the optical modulation device 34 and an exit-side imaging plane on a pupil plane 36a of the condenser optical system 36.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Takashi Yasuda