Abstract: An electrode body including a current collector and an electrode layer that includes layers in the order of a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer from the current collector side in a thickness direction. The first electrode layer includes an end surface A, and the second electrode layer includes an end surface B. In a cross-sectional view in the thickness direction, the end surface A includes an end part A1 in the current collector side, and an end part A2 in the second electrode layer side, and the end surface B includes an end part B1 in the first electrode layer side, and an end part B2 in an opposite side to the first electrode layer; the end surface A includes, in a vertical direction to the thickness direction, and a first inclination part in which the end part A1 protrudes form the end part A2.

Abstract: A production device of an electrode member to be used for a battery, the production device including: a backup roll configured to support a current collector to be carried; a first die configured to form a first coating layer by coating the current collector on the backup roll with a first slurry; and a second die configured to form a second coating layer by coating the first coating layer on the backup roll with a second slurry, wherein each of the first die and the second die are independent; and when horizontal direction is regarded as a reference 0°, perpendicular downward is regarded as +90°, and perpendicular upward is regarded as ?90°, a discharge angle of the second slurry in the second die is ?90° or more and +60° or less.

Abstract: This invention provides a pulse shaping technique that can yield a pulsed laser having a smaller energy fluctuation than that of a conventional pulse shaping technique using one or two non-linear optical crystals. A pulse shaping device includes: a non-linear optical crystal group including at least three non-linear optical crystals arranged side by side on an optical path of an input pulsed laser.

Abstract: An intense optical high field generator capable of generating an intensive optical high field includes an optical amplification medium that converts optical energy for a wide band or plural bands and performs optical energy conversion into oscillating light oscillated from an optical resonator. The generator also includes: a negative dispersion element that imparts negative dispersion to a pulse light, which is the oscillating light; a mode locking unit that mode locks the optical resonator; a positive dispersion element that imparts positive dispersion on the pulse light; an optical system; and a vacuum chamber that accommodates the negative dispersion element, the mode locking unit, and the positive dispersion element 4, such that an intensive optical high field generating point takes in the pulse light from the negative dispersion element or the positive dispersion element and is formed within the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A wide-band ultrashort-pulse optical oscillator includes: an optical amplification medium 1 that optically amplifies an incident light having a wide band or a plurality of bands so as to be converted into an oscillation light emitted from an optical resonator; an energy injection element 2 that either injects energy into the optical amplification medium so that light energy is generated, or injects light energy into the optical amplification medium; a negative dispersion element 4 that imparts a negative dispersion to a pulse light of the oscillation light; a mode locker 9 that produces a mode-locking with respect to the pulse light; a positive dispersion element 11 that imparts a positive dispersion to the pulse light; and an optical system formed so that the pulse light passes through a loop-like optical path from the optical amplification medium via the negative dispersion element, the mode locker, and the positive dispersion element, back to the optical amplification medium in at least one of the stated d

Abstract: To provide an intensive optical high field generator capable of generating an intensive optical high field with excellent stability, a high quality, and an intensity greatly higher than that of a known example.

Abstract: A wide-band ultrashort-pulse optical oscillator includes: an optical amplification medium 1 that optically amplifies an incident light having a wide band or a plurality of bands so as to be converted into an oscillation light emitted from an optical resonator; an energy injection element 2 that either injects energy into the optical amplification medium so that light energy is generated, or injects light energy into the optical amplification medium; a negative dispersion element 4 that imparts a negative dispersion to a pulse light of the oscillation light; a mode locker 9 that produces a mode-locking with respect to the pulse light; a positive dispersion element 11 that imparts a positive dispersion to the pulse light; and an optical system formed so that the pulse light passes through a loop-like optical path from the optical amplification medium via the negative dispersion element, the mode locker, and the positive dispersion element, back to the optical amplification medium in at least one of the stated d