Abstract: The present invention concerns a laser light source device capable of multiwavelength oscillation. This laser light source device is provided with a laser light source; a laser cavity including a fiber, a first fiber grating provided at a side of the fiber toward the laser light source and having a plurality of reflection peaks, and a second fiber grating provided at a light emission end of the fiber and having a plurality of reflection peaks: a wavelength converter for converting a fundamental wave emitted from the laser cavity into a harmonic wave; a reflection wavelength varying unit capable of shifting the reflection wavelengths of the reflection peaks of the second fiber grating; and a controller for controlling phase matching conditions of the wavelength converter. Intervals between adjacent reflection peaks of the first fiber grating are different from those between adjacent reflection peaks of the second fiber grating.

Abstract: An automatic transmission controller for a hybrid vehicle of the present invention is used for the hybrid vehicle being a four-wheel drive vehicle and including an engine and a generator motor on a front wheel side of the hybrid vehicle and a traction motor on a rear wheel side of the hybrid vehicle. The automatic transmission controller for a hybrid vehicle includes: an automatic transmission for transmitting a driving force from the engine to an output shaft of the hybrid vehicle; and an oil pump for supplying a speed-shifting clutch of the automatic transmission with pre-pressure to eliminate play of the speed-shifting clutch, when the hybrid vehicle is driven by a driving force from the traction motor.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus capable of stably providing high output harmonic laser light is provided. The wavelength conversion apparatus comprises an end pump fiber laser 3 containing a laser activating substance, and including a reflecting surface at one end thereof and a fiber grating in the vicinity of the reflecting surface; an excitation laser light source 1 for outputting excitation laser light; an excitation laser light introduction section 4 for introducing the excitation laser light from the excitation laser light source to the fiber laser; a wavelength conversion element 5 for converting a fundamental wave generated by the fiber laser to a harmonic; and a rear reflecting surface 6 located outside the fiber laser and forming a laser cavity together with the fiber grating.

Abstract: An electric switch includes a ferroelectric substrate to which metal is added, a pair of electrodes provided on the ferroelectric substrate, and an electric field applying portion for changing the direction of polarization in part of the ferroelectric substrate.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coherent light source with limitations on the wavelength of emitted light being relaxed. The coherent light source of the present invention is a coherent light source for simultaneously emitting a first light (3) and a second light (4) having a wavelength shorter than that of the first light (3), including: a light source main body emitting at least the first light (3); a mirror (5) which transmits or reflects the first light (3); and a functional film (6) provided on at least a part of the mirror (5). The functional film (6) has a photocatalytic effect to be induced by the second light (4).

Abstract: After forming domain inverted layers 3 in an LiTaO3 substrate 1, an optical waveguide is formed. By performing low-temperature annealing for the optical wavelength conversion element thus formed, a stable proton exchange layer 8 is formed, where an increase in refractive index generated during high-temperature annealing is lowered, thereby providing a stable optical wavelength conversion element. Thus, the phase-matched wavelength becomes constant, and variation in harmonic wave output is eliminated. Consequently, with respect to an optical wavelength conversion element utilizing a nonlinear optical effect, a highly reliable element is provided.

Abstract: An optical element is provided that includes a base substrate, a waveguide substrate, and a thin film layer that is provided between the base substrate and the waveguide substrate and that has a single-layer structure of a multilayer structure including a film containing Ta2O5 or Nb2O5 as a principal component.

Abstract: A 2D image display apparatus using a laser light source. By controlling the timing of a scan by a beam scan portion in response to the characteristic of a laser light source and by setting a light emitting time of the laser light source to an integral multiple of a scan cycle of the beam scan portion, it is possible to illuminate a spatial light modulator homogeneously with a laser beam. It is thus possible to display an image at high accuracy without causing a bright line, irregularities in brightness, and contrast deterioration.

Abstract: A two-dimensional image formation apparatus according to the present invention is provided with laser sources (1a)˜(1c), diffusers (6a)˜(6c) for diffusing light, illumination optical systems for irradiating the diffusers (6a)˜(6c) with lights emitted from the laser sources (1a)˜(1c), diffuser vibration units (13a)˜(13c) for vibrating the diffusers (6a)˜(6c), and spatial light modulators (7a)˜(7c) disposed near the diffusers (6a)˜(6c), for modulating the lights emitted from the laser sources (1a)˜(1c) and diffused by the diffusers (6a)˜(6c), wherein the diffusers (6a)˜(6c) are vibrated by the diffuser vibration units (13a)˜(13c) at a velocity that satisfies a relationship, V>d×30 (millimeters/sec), which is established between the grain size d of the diffusers and the vibration speed V of the diffusers, whereby speckle noise existing in an image projected on a screen (11) can be effectively reduced.

Abstract: There is provided a laser display device that is applicable to mobile equipment, which device prevents laser light from being applied to a region other than a screen. A laser display device (100) is provided with a laser projection part (101) comprising at least one coherent light source and an optical system for converting light from the coherent light source into video, a screen (103) onto which the light emitted from the laser projection part (101) is projected, and an arm (102) that is attached to the screen (103) and supports the laser projection part (101), and the movable range and movable direction of the laser projection part (101) are limited by the arm (102) so that light from the laser projection part (101) is applied to only the screen (103).

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a semiconductor laser device (10) having different facet reflectivities, an electrode disposed on a stripe ridge (107a) is divided into four electrode parts (1), (2), (3), and (4), and a larger injection current is injected to an electrode part that is closer to a light emission facet side. According to this semiconductor laser device, a carrier density distribution in an active layer that is opposed to the stripe ridge can be matched to a light intensity distribution in the active layer, thereby preventing degradation in high output characteristic due to destabilization of transverse mode and reduction in gain which are caused by spatial hole burning.

Abstract: Conventionally, in a display device using lasers, a blue light source having a relatively long wavelength and a red light source having a relatively short wavelength are adopted because a short-wavelength blue light source and a long-wavelength red light source cause degradation in visibility. Therefore, there are problems that an expressible color region is restricted, and large output power is required for white display. Accordingly, in a two-dimensional image display device of the present invention, the center wavelength of a red color source is set in a range from 635 nm to 655 nm and the center wavelength of a blue light source is set in a range from 420 nm to 455 nm, thereby obtaining a bright and clear image at minimum power consumption.

Abstract: A laser light source (10) of the present invention is provided with plural semiconductor lasers (1), and a waveguide (3) in which light beams emitted from the respective semiconductor lasers (1) propagate, and the plural semiconductor lasers are disposed at an upper end of an incident end face (31) of the waveguide so that the light beams (4) emitted from the respective semiconductor lasers enter the waveguide from the end face (31) of the waveguide and are emitted from another end face (32) of the waveguide. Thereby, it is possible to realize a high-power and compact laser light source which is able to output a light beam having a uniform light intensity distribution.

Abstract: An optical waveguide device has a substrate composed of a nonlinear optical material and a periodically domain-inverted structure having the same composition as the nonlinear optical material, where the domain-inverted structure has a refractive index distribution relying on the domain-inverted structure.

Abstract: It is easy to increase output with a wide stripe laser, but the lateral mode is a multimode, and the coupling efficiency is low with a single-mode fiber or a single-mode waveguide, creating problems in terms of application to devices of high coherence. In view of this, the light emitted from a wide stripe semiconductor laser is passed through a mode converter and a wavelength selecting filter, then fed back to the active layer of the semiconductor laser, which fixes the oscillation mode of the semiconductor laser to single mode.

Abstract: A video projector of the present invention includes a laser projection unit (50) that has linear polarization short wavelength laser light sources (1)˜(3) and emits laser lights from the laser light sources, a lens system (6a) that collects the laser lights from the laser projection unit (50), a liquid crystal cell (7) that spatially modulates the collected laser lights, a camera shake correcting optical system (110) that is capable of translating vertically and horizontally on a plane that is perpendicular to the optical axis of the laser projection unit (50), a prism (24) that transmits the laser lights from the liquid crystal cell (7) and branches the light reflected by the screen (10), and a camera device (60) that can observe or capture the video image that is branched by the prism (24). The present invention provides a video projector that can prevent the camera shake and can be held in hands.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is capable of performing regenerative operations of generator-motors disposed adjacently to front wheels and/or rear wheels of the vehicle so as to achieve efficient conversion of kinetic energy of the vehicle into electric energy as much as possible when the vehicle slows down, thereby permitting higher use efficiency of energy. When the vehicle decelerates, a target deceleration force or a target deceleration torque of the vehicle is set, and a permissible maximum value of the braking torque to be imparted to rear wheels from a second generator-motor is set, and the permissible maximum value and the target deceleration torque of the vehicle, whichever is smaller, is set as a target braking torque to be imparted from the second generator-motor to the rear wheels.

Abstract: Laser beams respectively emitted from a SHG blue laser unit and a red semiconductor laser unit that have photo detectors respectively are turned into parallel lights by a collimator lens and then coupled by a dielectric multi-layer film mirror so as to be propagated on the same optical axis. The dielectric multi-layer film mirror is configured so as to transmit light with a wavelength of 500 nm or shorter and reflect light with a wavelength of 500 nm or longer for both P wave and S wave. The lights that are transmitted and reflected by the dielectric multi-layer film mirror pass through a polarizing hologram and a phase variable wave plate and are focused on an optical disk by an objective lens. In this manner, a simple configuration can realize a compatibility with many types of optical disks and a stable signal detection even when using a polarizing optical detection system.

Abstract: In a display unit which makes coherent light perform scanning on a screen to display an image, it is necessary to rotate a polygon mirror at ultrahigh speed for display of a high resolution image such as HDTV, and therefore, a high-performance polygon mirror must be employed, and further, noise and power consumption during rotation of the polygon mirror cause problems. Mirrors for multiple reflection (6a) and (6b) are inserted in a coherent light scanning optical system, whereby plural scanning lines can be obtained while one plane of the polygon mirror (5) scans one line of coherent light, leading to reduction in the rpm of the polygon mirror.

Abstract: An electric switch includes a ferroelectric substrate to which metal is added, a pair of electrodes provided on the ferroelectric substrate, and an electric field applying portion for changing the direction of polarization in part of the ferroelectric substrate.