Abstract: It is aimed to provide a technique for easily suppressing swellings produced in end parts of partitions, thereby achieving a PDP capable of displaying a high-quality image. A PDP therefore has a plurality of partitions that include: (a) a plurality of main parts; and (b) a plurality of sub parts that each extend from an end part of one of the plurality of main parts parallel to a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the main parts extend. This allows each partition to have an end that is wider than a center part of the partition. In the process of forming PDP partitions, end parts of the partitions are partially heated, after they are baked, to a temperature higher than a softening point of a partition material. As a specific partial heating method, a method with which a laser beam is projected onto an end part is suitable.

Abstract: A laser oscillator to further shorten a pulse width is provided by enabling broadband mode-locking even while using a laser medium having a precipitous fluorescence peak. A resonator has two concave mirrors and four chirped mirrors, and cavity-dispersion is compensated by these chirped mirrors. A semiconductor laser output is focused through a first concave mirror onto the laser medium to produce a gain medium in the resonator, whereby a laser oscillation is realized. While setting a target value in layer thickness design of dielectric multilayer of the chirped mirrors so as to slightly lower reflectivity at a fluorescence peak wavelength of the laser medium, fitting is redone, whereby reflectivity is slightly changed without greatly changing group-delay dispersion. In this procedure, reflectivity is reduced in any one or some of the chirped mirrors to average the gain.

Abstract: It is aimed to provide a technique for easily suppressing swellings produced in end parts of partitions, thereby achieving a PDP capable of displaying a high-quality image.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is formed with a plurality of partitions that include a plurality of main parts and a plurality of subparts that can extend from an end part of one or more of the plurality of main parts in a direction perpendicular to the main parts, to thereby provide an end part that is wider than a central part of the partition. The increased size of the end parts prevent swellings that may occur during the production process. Additionally, as part of the method of forming the partitions, the end parts of the partitions can be further partially heated to a temperature higher than a softening point of the partition material, for example, by an application of energy from a laser beam to further address the swelling problem.

Abstract: It is aimed to provide a technique for easily suppressing swellings produced in end parts of partitions, thereby achieving a PDP capable of displaying a high-quality image.