Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber scanner capable of generating an image with excellent image quality, which displaces an emission end of an optical fiber by means of an optical scanning actuator and scans light emitted from the optical fiber, in which the optical fiber 31 includes a photonic crystal fiber at least in a propagation path of the light leading to the optical scanning actuator.

Abstract: An optical fiber scanning apparatus is the optical fiber scanning apparatus for which an optical fiber to which a permanent magnet is disposed and which is configured to emit illumination light from a distal end portion is arranged in a hollow portion of a magnetic field generation unit, the magnetic field generation unit is provided with four coil units each including a flexible substrate where a planar coil, a lead-out wiring layer of the planar coil and an external connection electrode pad are disposed, and an inside of the four coil units arranged in a square prism shape configures the hollow portion.

Abstract: An optical connector includes a plug frame including a ferrule insertion portion. An eight-sided regular polygonal attachment hole, into which a four-sided regular polygonal flange portion of a flange is fitted, is formed in the ferrule insertion portion so that vicinities of outer corner portions of a four-sided regular polygon of the flange portion come into contact with inner corner portions of the eight-sided regular polygonal attachment hole, thereby preventing rotation of the flange centered on an axis direction of the flange. A ferrule is inserted into the plug frame while a rotation position determined by the flange portion and the attachment hole is adjusted relative to a direction of eccentricity of an optical fiber in a ferrule cylindrical body, and the ferrule is fitted in and held by the plug frame.

Abstract: An optical fiber connection mechanism includes a pair of connectors and a split sleeve that are used in an endoscope. The connectors include respective ferrules, an end of a single-mode optical fiber and a collimator lens is mounted in each ferrule, and the collimator lens is disposed at the tip of the single-mode optical fiber. The optical fiber connection mechanism is configured so that when the ferrules are inserted into ends of the split sleeve, the collimator lenses face each other with a gap therebetween and the single-mode optical fibers are optically connected to each other. The ferrules are loosely fit in the corresponding connectors to be displaceable within a predetermined range in the direction along the optical axis of the single-mode optical fibers.

Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a treatment device configured to be capable of treating a subject by applying energy to the subject, an optical fiber including a light emitting face for emitting light into the subject, the optical fiber being connected to the treatment device, and a shield portion that is disposed in front of the light emitting face of the optical fiber, the shield portion being configured to expose the light emitting face when the treatment device does not perform a treatment operation and to shield the light emitting face when the treatment device performs the treatment operation.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition device for observing a living body; a blood vessel recognition device that irradiates the living body with an exploration laser beam and that recognizes a blood vessel; an arithmetic operation unit that calculates a first laser spot position on a first frame acquired by the image acquisition device when the blood vessel is recognized and that adds a mark corresponding to the first laser spot to a position on a second frame corresponding to the first frame, the second frame being acquired at a time different from the time of the first frame; and a display unit for displaying, on an image acquired by the image acquisition device, a plurality of the marks added by the arithmetic operation unit as a result of the blood vessel being recognized at a plurality of different times.

Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber scanner capable of generating an image with excellent image quality, which displaces an emission end of an optical fiber by means of an optical scanning actuator and scans light emitted from the optical fiber, in which the optical fiber 31 includes a photonic crystal fiber at least in a propagation path of the light leading to the optical scanning actuator.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a set of connectors includes: a step of measuring an emitting direction of light emitted from a plurality of ferrules; a step of grouping the plurality of ferrules into a first group or a second group, based on whether the emitting direction is right or left of a straight line connecting a reference fitting portion closest to the emitting direction of the light and an optical axis; a step of fabricating a plug using the ferrule belonging to the first group; and a step of fabricating a receptacle using the ferrule belonging to the second group.

Abstract: An optical fiber connection mechanism includes a pair of connectors and a split sleeve that are used in an endoscope. The connectors include respective ferrules, an end of a single-mode optical fiber and a collimator lens is mounted in each ferrule, and the collimator lens is disposed at the tip of the single-mode optical fiber. The optical fiber connection mechanism is configured so that when the ferrules are inserted into ends of the split sleeve, the collimator lenses face each other with a gap therebetween and the single-mode optical fibers are optically connected to each other. The ferrules are loosely fit in the corresponding connectors to be displaceable within a predetermined range in the direction along the optical axis of the single-mode optical fibers.

Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a treatment device configured to be capable of treating a subject by applying energy to the subject, an optical fiber including a light emitting face for emitting light into the subject, the optical fiber being connected to the treatment device, and a shield portion that is disposed in front of the light emitting face of the optical fiber, the shield portion being configured to expose the light emitting face when the treatment device does not perform a treatment operation and to shield the light emitting face when the treatment device performs the treatment operation.

Abstract: A medical sheath is a medical sheath to be used in combination with a medical device including an insertion portion that can be inserted into a body cavity of a subject via a trocar, the medical sheath including: a sheath body formed in a shape that can be inserted to and removed from a through hole through in the trocar; a channel provided in the sheath body, the channel having a shape that enables insertion and removal of the insertion portion; a first optical transmission section provided in the sheath body, the first optical transmission section being provided for guiding illuminating light; and a second optical transmission section that is provided in the sheath body and is separate from the first optical transmission section, the second optical transmission section being provided for guiding return light generated upon application of the illuminating light from the first optical transmission section.

Abstract: A biological observation system includes: a light source section generating illumination light including at least first illumination light with a center wavelength from a red region to a near infrared region of a visible region; a light detection section receiving return light emitted from a region to be observed to which the illumination light is applied and outputting an output signal; a signal processing section generating a frequency spectrum signal indicating a frequency spectrum of the return light emitted from the region to be observed according to application of the first illumination light; an image generation section generating an intensity image based on the output signal and generate a frequency spectrum image based on the frequency spectrum signal; and a display control section generating and displaying an observation image of the region to be observed by using the intensity image and the frequency spectrum image.

Abstract: An optical fiber scanning apparatus is the optical fiber scanning apparatus for which an optical fiber to which a permanent magnet is disposed and which is configured to emit illumination light from a distal end portion is arranged in a hollow portion of a magnetic field generation unit, the magnetic field generation unit is provided with four coil units each including a flexible substrate where a planar coil, a lead-out wiring layer of the planar coil and an external connection electrode pad are disposed, and an inside of the four coil units arranged in a square prism shape configures the hollow portion.

Abstract: A connection adapter includes: an adapter housing; a split sleeve; and a spacer having a space determiner disposed inside the split sleeve and an angle determiner that passes through the slit of the split sleeve to be secured relative to the adapter housing. The two connector connection pars are each connected to the connectors, respectively, causing the ferrules of the connectors to be fitted into the split sleeve and secured across the spacer, so that the single mode optical fibers of the connectors are optically connected to each other via no point of contact therebetween, to thereby provide a connection adapter capable of creating stable connection efficiency for optical fibers and an endoscope device using the connection adapter.

Abstract: An optical fiber connection adapter connects connectors, which each include a ferrule that contains a tip of a single-mode optical fiber, and guides light from a laser light source from the interior to the exterior of a casing. The adapter includes a housing, a sleeve configured so that the ferrules are inserted therein and so that the single-mode optical fibers of the connectors are optically connected to each other, and a dust protection ring disposed at a casing side of the sleeve and configured to regulate rotation of the sleeve relative to the housing and to shield an interval between the interior of the casing and the interior of the housing when the connector at the casing side is connected.

Abstract: A multiphoton-excited measuring device measuring a sample with the use of a multiphoton absorption phenomenon by optical pulses having high intensity, comprising a short pulse light source 2 emitting optical pulses; an irradiation optical system 17, 18, 19 irradiating a sample 20 with optical pulses emitted from the short pulse light source 2; a detector 24 detecting signal light generated, in association with multiphoton excitation, from the sample 20 by the irradiation with optical pulses; and an optical pulse compression means 4, 13 compressing a pulse width, with the use of intensity-dependent nonlinear effects of the optical fiber 4, so that a pulse width of optical pulses with which the sample 20 is to be irradiated is shorten to equal to or narrower than that of optical pulses emitted from the short pulse light source 2 and so that a spectral width of optical pulses with which the sample 20 is to be irradiated is wider than that of optical pulses emitted from the short pulse light source 2, which makes

Abstract: An optical inspection device 1, comprising a light generation means 2, a light irradiation means 3 irradiating an object to be inspected 4 with light generated from the light generation means 2 and a photodetection means 6 photoelectrically converting signal light obtained from the object to be inspected 4 through irradiation of light by the light irradiation means 3, and inspecting the object to be inspected 4 based on output from the photodetection means 6, wherein a light amplification means 5 amplifying signal light obtained from the object to be inspected 4 is provided. There is thus provided an optical inspection device capable of photoelectically converting signal light from the object to be inspected with high sensitivity and promptly with its inexpensive configuration without increasing the intensity of light with which the object to be inspected is irradiated and without using an expensive low-noise and high-sensitivity photodetector.

Abstract: An optical inspection device 1, comprising a light generation means 2, a light irradiation means 3 irradiating an object to be inspected 4 with light generated from the light generation means 2 and a photodetection means 6 photoelectrically converting signal light obtained from the object to be inspected 4 through irradiation of light by the light irradiation means 3, and inspecting the object to be inspected 4 based on output from the photodetection means 6, wherein a light amplification means 5 amplifying signal light obtained from the object to be inspected 4 is provided. There is thus provided an optical inspection device capable of photoelectrically converting signal light from the object to be inspected with high sensitivity and promptly with its inexpensive configuration without increasing the intensity of light with which the object to be inspected is irradiated and without using an expensive low-noise and high-sensitivity photodetector.

Abstract: There are provided a photodetection device, a photodetection method, a microscope and an endoscope, which are capable of heterodyne-detecting desired light to be detected with high sensitivity and high S/N ratio, among which the photodetection device includes: a local light generation unit (10) generating local light having a plurality of optical frequency components in an optical frequency band of light to be detected within a given period of time; a light combining unit (20) combining the local light generated from the local light generation unit (10) and the light to be detected; and a photoelectric conversion unit (30) photoelectrically-converting light output from the light combining unit (20) and generating a beat signal of the local light and the light to be detected, such that the light to be detected is heterodyne-detected based on an output of the photoelectric conversion unit (30).

Abstract: A light source of the present invention includes: a semiconductor light emitting device which has a light emitting face and emits light from part of the light emitting face; a container which has a light transmitting window for transmitting the light and accommodates the semiconductor light emitting device; and a gettering portion for performing gettering of a material containing at least one of carbon and silicon. The gettering portion is positioned, in the container, in a region other than the part of the light emitting face of the semiconductor light emitting device.