Abstract: In a laser display displaying a video by scanning a beam from a laser light source two-dimensionally on a screen, image quality is deteriorated markedly by speckle noises induced from coherency of the light source. A known method of oscillating the screen to remove the speckles has a problem that a large-scale device is necessary and the screen cannot be chosen without any restraint. A speckle pattern that is generated can be suppressed using a beam oscillating means that oscillates a light spot on the screen at a high speed, causing a viewer to perceive a time-mean image as not having speckle noises.

Abstract: An illumination light source uses a beam to scan while a relatively small mirror, such as an MEMS mirror, is oscillated at or in the vicinity of the resonance frequency. In this instance, the scan angle is corrected with the use of a correction optical system for uniform illumination to be achieved.

Abstract: There has been a problem that pumping light leaks from a part having a coating at the joint of a double-clad fiber added with a rare earth and a general single-mode fiber, and heat is generated partly from the fiber by this energy thus causing deterioration of the fiber. Deterioration of a fiber due to residual excitation light can be prevented by preventing residual excitation light in a double-clad fiber from exiting to a single-mode fiber, and the reliability is enhanced. Output of oscillation light can be increased because output of excitation light is not limited. Furthermore, a laser display having a high color reproducibility can be achieved by employing a light source combining a fiber laser light source and a wavelength conversion module.

Abstract: A 2-dimensional beam scan unit (2) reflects emission beams from a red laser light source (1a), a green laser light source (1b) and a blue laser light source (1c) and scans in a 2-dimensional direction. Diffusion plates (3a, 3b, 3c) diffuse the respective light beams scanned in the 2-dimensional direction to introduce them to corresponding spatial light modulation elements (5a, 5b, 5c). The respective spatial light modulation elements (5a, 5b, 5c) modulate the respective lights in accordance with video signals of the respective colors. A dichroic prism (6) multiplexes the lights of the three colors after the modulation and introduces the multiplexed lights to a projection lens (7) so that a color image is displayed on a screen (8).

Abstract: An internal resonator type SHG light source includes a pump light source which emits a pump light; a solid-state laser which absorbs the pump light and which emits a fundamental wave; an output mirror provided so as to face the solid-state laser, which forms a resonator together with the solid-state laser; a wavelength conversion element provided in the resonator, which converts the fundamental wave into a harmonic wave; a detector which detects a temperature of the wavelength conversion element; and a rotating unit which changes an incident angle of the fundamental wave on the wavelength conversion element by rotating the wavelength conversion element, wherein the rotating unit rotates the wavelength conversion element according to the temperature of the wavelength conversion element as detected by the detector.

Abstract: A surface emitting laser includes an active layer disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and a pair of upper and lower electrodes for injecting carriers into the active layer. The plane surface of the lower electrode is shaped into a star so that injection of current into the active layer from the lower electrode is carried out with a high density at the center of the lower electrode and with a low density at its periphery part. In the surface emitting laser, the density distribution of the carriers injected into the active layer corresponds to the power distribution of light inside the active layer. Thereby, hole burning due to an increase in the current density in the region of the active layer corresponding to the peripheral part of the electrode is avoided, and the transverse mode stability during high output operation is significantly enhanced to improve high-output characteristic.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural laser light sources, a polygonal mirror that scans plural laser beams from the plural laser light sources, and a multiplexing member that combines the plural laser beams scanned by the polygonal mirror. The polygonal mirror is disposed above or below the multiplexing member, and the extension of the rotation axis of the polygonal mirror passes through the multiplexing member. When configured in this manner, it is possible to reduce the apparatus size and speckle noises caused by the plural laser beams.

Abstract: There is provided a highly-reliable multi-panel LCD in which a plurality of liquid crystal display panel units having planar light source units disposed on their rear surfaces can be arranged in a flat plane or a curved plane, and a partial reduction in luminance or the like in a display device can be avoided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface illuminator having a uniform luminance over a large area by using a laser light source, having a wide color reproduction range, and capable of suppressing a speckle noise, as well as a liquid crystal display using the same. The surface illuminator of the present invention includes the laser light source that emits a laser beam; a beam scan section that deflects and scans the laser beam; and a first plate-shaped light guide that makes the laser beam deflected and scanned by the beam scan section to be incident from an end face portion and making the incident laser beam to emit from a first major surface. Further, the liquid crystal display of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel and the surface illuminator, wherein the surface illuminator is used as a backlight illuminator that lights the liquid crystal display panel from backside in this liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A wavelength converter of the present invention is provided with a laser resonator including a fiber containing an laser-active material and a fiber grating formed in the fiber, a laser light source for emitting an excitation light to the fiber, and a wavelength conversion element for converting a fundamental wave of a laser beam emitted from the laser resonator into a harmonic, wherein the fiber is coiled and has the outer side thereof coated with a heat radiating member having a reflection surface for reflecting light having a wavelength of an excitation light. The wavelength converter is designed to prevent an efficiency reduction caused by the heat generation of a rare-earth doped fiber in a wavelength converter.

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 non-linear optical effect, a highly reliable element is provided.

Abstract: A fiber laser and an optical device for controlling polarization and outputting single polarized light are provided in a simple structure. The fiber laser includes a solid-state laser fiber 3 doped with a rare earth element, a pump light source 1 for exciting the solid-state laser fiber, a reflective element 2 having wavelength dependency, and a wavelength conversion element 4 arranged at the output side of the solid-state laser fiber away from the reflective element at a specified distance along the solid-state laser fiber, in which an end face of the wavelength conversion element 4 is inclined to an optical axis.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion module includes: a first fundamental wave propagation optical fiber for propagating a fundamental wave emitted from a laser light source; a first wavelength conversion element, optically connected to the first fundamental wave propagation optical fiber, for converting the fundamental wave emitted from the first fundamental wave propagation optical fiber into a harmonic wave; and a first harmonic propagation optical fiber, optically connected to the first wavelength conversion element, for propagating the harmonic wave emitted from the first wavelength conversion element, wherein the core diameter of the first harmonic propagation optical fiber is 0.5 to 0.9 times as large as the core diameter of first fundamental wave propagation optical fiber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for laminating substrates, including locating positioning a surface of a first substrate and a surface of a second substrate at positions close to each other, or partially bringing them in partial contact with each other; supplying a volatile liquid between the surface of the first substrate and the surface of the second substrate; and evaporating the volatile liquid so as to laminate the substrates with each other.

Abstract: A projection type display apparatus is provided that is safe even when a person looks directly into a laser beam. A laser operation control unit sets the output power of at least one laser source so that intensity A (mW/mm2) of the laser beam on at least one spatial light modulation element satisfies relationship of A<686×B2 when numerical aperture B on image side of an illumination optics system is set.

Abstract: A laser light source includes a fundamental laser generator that generates a fundamental laser light, a wavelength conversion element that is made of a ferroelectric crystal with a periodically poled structure and converts the fundamental laser light to a laser light having a different wavelength, a holding member that holds at least a part of an element surface of the wavelength conversion element that crosses a polarization direction of the periodically poled structure, and an insulation layer that is provided between the holding member and the element surface. Electric resistivity of the insulation layer is 1×108 ?·cm or higher.

Abstract: An image forming device which has a high reliability and forms an image without speckle noise is provided. The image forming device has a light source unit that emits laser beams by a plurality of laser beam outputting sections, and a modulation element that is irradiated with the laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser beam outputting sections. At least one laser beam outputting section emits the laser beam at a different timing from the other laser beam outputting sections, and a beam angle of at least one laser beam outputting section which irradiates the modulation element is different from a beam angle of the other laser beam outputting sections which irradiate the modulation element.

Abstract: When one tries to obtain high-output wavelength conversion light of class W, the internal temperature of a wavelength conversion element rises significantly to cause an undue variation in phase matching wavelength and thereby it is difficult to match the wavelength of a fundamental wave to the phase matching wavelength. A part of the output of the fundamental wave or pumping light propagating on a fiber is thereby absorbed by doping the fiber with a rare earth element at a set concentration, and the temperature of a fiber grating is raised by heating the fiber grating with heat produced through the absorption. Consequently, the wavelength of the fundamental wave obtained through the fiber grating by widening the grating interval is substantially matched to the phase matching wavelength which can be converted by the wavelength conversion element, and a wavelength converter ensuring a stable high output up to class W is provided.

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: A wavelength converting laser includes: a fundamental-wave laser light source emitting a fundamental wave; and a wavelength conversion element converting the fundamental wave emitted from the fundamental-wave laser light source into a converted wave having a different wavelength from the fundamental wave, in which: a pair of fundamental-wave reflecting surfaces is arranged on both end sides of the wavelength conversion element in the directions of an optical axis thereof and reflects the fundamental wave to thereby pass the fundamental wave a plurality of times inside of the wavelength conversion element, and at least one of the fundamental-wave reflecting surfaces transmits the converted wave; and the pair of fundamental-wave reflecting surfaces allows the fundamental wave to cross inside of the wavelength conversion element and form a plurality of light-concentration points at places different from a cross point of the fundamental wave.