Abstract: An optical computing device includes a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements each having an optical computing function, and a light receiver that detects respective intensities of wavelength components contained in signal light outputted from the light diffraction element group. The light diffraction elements are disposed side by side on a light path of the signal light inputted into the light diffraction element group such that the signal light passes sequentially through the light diffraction elements.

Abstract: A light diffraction element includes a computing optical structure constituted by microcells, and a position adjustment optical structure outside the computing optical structure.

Abstract: An optical computing device includes: a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements having an optical computing function, wherein the light diffraction element group passes light through the light diffraction elements in turn, the light passing through the light diffraction elements was either: reflected or scattered from a non-illuminant object located outside the optical computing device, or emitted from an illuminant object located outside the optical computing device, and neither the non-illuminant object nor the illuminant object is a display.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stereolithographically fabricated object includes separately irradiating, with light, respective n regions R1 to Rn of a photo-curable resin, where n is an integer of not less than 2. An overlap area of the region Ri overlaps a part of the region Rj, where i is an integer that satisfies 1?i?n and j is an integer that satisfies 1?j?n and j?i. The photo-curable resin is cured in a part or an entirety of the overlap area by irradiating the region Ri with the light.

Abstract: A light diffraction element unit includes a base material including a light-transmissive and flexible layer member, a light diffraction structure including microcells and disposed on a portion of a main surface of the base material, and a holding part holding the base material and including a layer member or a plate member having an opening that penetrates through a pair of main surfaces of the layer member or the plate member. The holding part holds an annular portion of the base material such that the light diffraction structure is encompassed in the opening. The annular portion surrounds the portion of the main surface of the base material.

Abstract: An optical fabrication device includes a light source that emits light and cures a photo-curable resin, a digital micromirror device that reflects the light and projects a predetermined pattern, a microlens array disposed downstream of the digital micromirror device and that transmits the light that has been reflected by the digital micromirror device, an objective disposed downstream of the microlens array and that causes the light that has been transmitted through the microlens array to form an image, a container that holds the photo-curable resin, a sample platform disposed inside the container, and a controller that controls the digital micromirror device and causes the light to form an image having the predetermined pattern at each of levels that are different in distance from a main face of the sample platform.

Abstract: An optical computing device includes a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements each having an optical computing function, and a light emitter that generates signal light inputted into the light diffraction element group and indicative of images formed by different optical systems.

Abstract: An optical computing device includes: an optical modulation element including cells with independently configurable amounts of modulation; and a reflector. The optical modulation element is configured with N (N is a natural number not less than 2)-computing regions A1, A2, . . . , AN. The computing region A1 performs optical computing by modulating and reflecting incident light. Each computing region Ai (i is a corresponding natural number not less than 2 and not more than N) other than the computing region A1 performs the optical computing by modulating and reflecting signal light that has been modulated and reflected by a computing region Ai?1 and then reflected by the reflector.

Abstract: An optical computing device includes a filter, through which light passes, and an optical diffraction element group that performs optical computing. The optical diffraction element group includes one or more optical diffraction elements having microcells, each of the microcells having an independently set thickness or a refractive index. After passing through the filter, the light first enters a first optical diffraction element among the one or more optical diffraction elements. The filter selectively transmits light in a direction that has an angle, with respect to an optical axis of the first optical diffraction element, that is less than or equal to a specific angle determined by the filter.

Abstract: An optical computing device includes: one or more light-diffraction elements each of which includes microcells, wherein each of the microcells has an individually set thickness or refractive index; and an optical signal input section that simultaneously inputs an optical signal and a delayed optical signal obtained by delaying the optical signal to the one or more light-diffraction elements.

Abstract: An optical computing system includes: a light diffraction element divided into blocks and including cells having respective thicknesses or refractive indices set independently of each other, wherein each of the blocks includes: a first cell of the cells having a thickness or a refractive index such that first optical computing is carried out and, a second cell of the cells having a thickness or a refractive index such that second optical computing is carried out; a light-emitting device including light-emitting cells corresponding to each of the blocks, that generates signal light, and that emits the signal light to the light diffraction element; and a light-receiving device including light-receiving cells corresponding to each of the cells of the light diffraction element, and that detects the signal light from the light diffraction element.

Abstract: An optical computing system includes: an intensity modulation device group including at least two intensity modulation devices, each of which includes modulation cells, wherein each of the modulation cells of each of the intensity modulation devices carries out intensity modulation with respect to carrier light in accordance with one of signals to generate a signal light beam, and each of the signals corresponds to each of the intensity modulation devices; and a light diffraction element including diffraction cells having respective thicknesses or refractive indices set independently of each other, wherein each of the diffraction cells receives the signal light beam from each of the modulation cells of each of the intensity modulation devices corresponding to each of the diffraction cells, and by causing signal light beams to have respective different optical path lengths to the light diffraction element, the signal light beams have respective different phases.

Abstract: An optical amplification apparatus includes a first amplification optical fiber, a second amplification optical fiber, a first pumping light source, and a second pumping light source. The first amplification optical fiber includes a first core and a first cladding layer. The first core is doped with an active element using a first active element doping concentration distribution. The first cladding layer is disposed out of the first core and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the first core. The second amplification optical fiber is connected to the first amplification optical fiber in a longitudinal direction of the first amplification optical fiber. The second amplification optical fiber includes a second core and a second cladding layer. The second core is doped with active element using a second active element doping concentration distribution that is different from the first active element doping concentration distribution.

Abstract: A light diffraction element, that has cells, includes first regions and second regions. Each of the cells comprises one of the first regions and one of the second regions. Each of the first regions has a thickness or a refractive index that is independently set. The second regions have a uniform thickness or a uniform refractive index. The first regions allow first polarized components of signal light to pass through. The second regions allow second polarized components of signal light to pass through. The second polarized components are different, in polarization direction, from the first polarized components. The light diffraction element performs optical computing by causing the first polarized components of signal light that have passed through the first regions to interfere with each other. The first polarized components of signal light output from the light diffraction element indicate information after the optical computing.

Abstract: An optical computing system includes: a light diffraction element group including n pieces of light diffraction elements, where n is a natural number of 2 or more. Each of the n pieces includes cells, each of which has a thickness or a refractive index that is independently set. Each of the cells is classified into a C1 cell or a C2 cell. The thickness or the refractive index of each of the C1 cells is set such that optical computing that is carried out by the light diffraction element group becomes an identity operation when the C2 cells are masked.

Abstract: A fiber laser apparatus includes a pump light source that emits pump light; a pump delivery fiber that guides the pump light; an amplifying optical fiber that is optically coupled to the pump delivery fiber and guides laser light; and a filter element that causes more loss of light of a wavelength range that includes a peak wavelength of at least one of Stokes light and anti-Stokes light than the laser light. The Stokes light and anti-Stokes light result from four-wave mixing involving a plurality of guide modes in a multi-mode fiber that guides the laser light. The filter element is disposed between: the pump delivery fiber and the amplifying optical fiber, the amplifying optical fiber and the multi-mode fiber, or at the multi-mode fiber.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention makes it easier to increase a temperature of metal powder to a temperature at which a powder bed (PB) is sintered or melted. An irradiation device (13) includes: a galvano scanner (13a) which irradiates at least part of a powder bed (PB) with laser light; and a wavelength converting element (WCE) provided in an optical path of the laser light. The wavelength converting element (WCE) converts laser light inputted into the wavelength converting element to laser light containing harmonic wave light (HL) which has a shorter wavelength than the laser light inputted into the wavelength converting element.

Abstract: The present invention causes residual stress, which may be generated in a metal shaped object (MO), to be small. A metal shaping device includes an irradiation device (13, 13A). The irradiation device (13, 13A), which is configured to irradiate a powder bed (PB) containing a metal powder with laser light (L), is able to be switched between (i) a focused state in which a beam spot diameter (D1) of laser light (L) on a surface of the powder bed (PB) has a first value and (ii) a defocused state in which the beam spot diameter (D2) of the laser light (L) on the surface of the powder bed (PB) has a second value which is larger than the first value.

Abstract: The present invention causes residual stress, which may be generated in a metal shaped object (MO), to be small. An irradiation device (13) includes: a first irradiating section (13A) configured to irradiate, with first laser light (LA), a first region (DA) of a powder bed (PB); and second irradiating section (13B) configured to irradiate, with second laser light (LB), a second region (DB) of the powder bed (PB). The second irradiating section (13B) irradiates the second region (DB) with the second laser light (LB) so that an energy density of the second laser light (LB), with which the second region (DB) is irradiated, is lower than an energy density of the first laser light (LA), with which the first region (DA) is irradiated.

Abstract: The present invention keeps a residual stress small which may occur in a metal shaped object (MO) while keeping a time short which is to be taken for carrying out main heating and preheating. An irradiation device (13) carries out a first heating step of heating a powder bed (PB) with laser light (LL) so that a temperature (T) of the powder bed (PB) is higher than 0.8 times as high as a melting point (Tm) of the metal powder and a second heating step of heating the powder bed (PB) with cladding light (CL) before or after the first heating step so that a temperature (T) of the powder bed (PB) is 0.5 times to 0.8 times as high as the melting point (Tm) of the metal powder.