Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement system for analyzing RF signals, comprising an optically transparent enclosure including an optically pumpable medium being exposed to an electromagnetic field of the RF signal to be analyzed; an optical pump for penetrating the medium with intensity-modulated light, the intensity defining an absorption sensitivity of the medium; a field generator for generating an electric and/or magnetic field within the enclosure, a strength of the generated field defining an absorption frequency of the medium; a controller for controlling the absorption sensitivity of the medium in dependence of the absorption frequency of the medium; and a detector for detecting an optical property of the penetrating light passing through the medium. This facilitates fine-tunable and frequency-dependent control of sensitivity and dynamic range for spectral analysis of RF signals.

Abstract: A laser processing system includes a laser source, an optical splitting unit, a frequency conversion unit and at least one optical mixer. The optical splitting unit is provided to divide light emitted by the laser source into a first light and a second light, and the first light and the second light have the same wavelength range. The frequency conversion unit is provided to convert the second light into a working light. The working light includes a frequency converted light, and the frequency converted light and the second light have different wavelength ranges. The optical mixer is provided to mix the first light with the frequency converted light.

Abstract: An SrB4O7 or PbB4O7 crystal is configured with a plurality of domains with respective periodically alternating polarity of the crystal axis so that the disclosed crystal is capable of quasi-phasematching (QPM). The disclosed crystal is manufactured by a method including patterning a surface of a crystal block of SrB4O7 or PbB4O7, thereby providing patterned uniformly dimensioned regions with a uniform polarity sign on the surface. The method further includes generating a disturbance on the patterned surface, thereby inverting a sign of crystal polarity of every other region to form the SrB4O7 or SrB4O7 crystal with a plurality of domains with alternating polarity enabling a QPM mechanism.

Abstract: A wavelength checker includes an optical converter composed of a conversion material that converts infrared light into visible light. The optical converter is disposed, on an output side (side from which light is output to an external space) of a plurality of first output waveguides of an optical waveguide chip, to receive emitted light that is guided through the first output waveguides and reflected on and emitted from the light emitting-side end surface. The light emitting-side end surface is a reflection surface that is inclined to face a main substrate.

Abstract: The disclosed laser system is configured with a laser source outputting light at a fundamental frequency. The output light is incident on a frequency converter operative to convert the fundamental frequency to a higher harmonic including at least one frequency converting stage. The frequency converter is based on a SrB4O7 (SBO) or PbB4O7 (PBO) nonlinear crystal configured with a plurality of domains. The domains have periodically alternating polarity of the crystal axis enabling a QPM use and formed with each with highly parallel walls which deviate from one another less than 1 micron over a 10 mm distance.

Abstract: A coherent, entangled photon source which uses a continuous wave laser to replace pulsed photon excitation sources in multiphoton nonlinear processes. In various embodiments, the device comprises a continuous wave photon laser creating electromagnetic radiation at a specific frequency and narrow linewidth. The emitted beam may be conditioned by an optical fiber to allow for efficient interaction with a nonlinear crystal. The nonlinear material is designed and fabricated in a specific manner, enabling the quantum mechanical process of a single photon with well-defined energy being converted into two or more photons which display quantum correlations. The nonlinear material and subsequent fiber-optic or free space components control the temporal, spatial, and polarization-related quantum correlations such that the entangled photons can create a signal in multiphoton nonlinear processes that is the same or exceeds that of a pulsed photon source but at the average and peak powers of a continuous wave laser.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for extracting multiple laser Compton scattering (“LCS”) photon beams using a laser Compton scattering reaction, the apparatus including: a linear accelerator for accelerating an electron beam; and an LCS gamma ray generation module including an LCS gamma ray generator for irradiating a target with an LCS gamma ray generated by emitting laser light to an electron beam released from the linear accelerator and a bending magnet for adjusting a direction of the electron beam passed through the LCS gamma ray generator, wherein at least two LCS gamma ray generation modules are sequentially arranged to form a closed loop together with the linear accelerator.

Abstract: A radiation-emitting semiconductor arrangement includes at least one semiconductor body having an active region that generates a primary radiation, and includes a radiation conversion element, wherein the radiation conversion element converts the primary radiation at least partially into a secondary radiation during operation of the semiconductor arrangement, the radiation conversion element emits the secondary radiation at a narrow angle, the radiation conversion element emits the secondary radiation into a projected spatial angle of not more than ?/5, and the semiconductor arrangement includes an optical deflector movable during operation of the semiconductor arrangement.

Abstract: A layout for a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is provided. In an example embodiment, the layout comprises a VCSEL, an etched shape around a mesa of the VCSEL, a signal contact layer deposited on section of the mesa, and a ground contact layer. The ground contact layer comprises three parts and is positioned around a first section of the etched shape. The first part of the ground contact layer is deposited on a second section of the etched shape. The second and third parts of the ground contact layer comprise two legs off of the first part. The two legs are symmetrically positioned about two sides of the signal contact layer to form a ground-signal-ground configuration.

Abstract: A continuous-wave frequency-modulated (FMCW) LiDAR system comprises: a laser cavity around a solid gain medium; an optical source configured to optically pump the solid gain medium at a power that determines a relaxation oscillation frequency; a structure configured to apply force to the solid gain medium associated with a mechanical resonance frequency, wherein the relaxation oscillation frequency is equal to the mechanical resonance frequency within a factor of 5; an optical arrangement configured to transmit at least one optical beam from the laser cavity towards a target, and to couple into the laser cavity a received optical signal comprising at least a portion of the optical beam reflected from the target; and circuitry configured to determine at least one of an estimated distance to the target or a speed of motion of the target based at least in part on a signal from the laser cavity.

Abstract: There is provided a method of tuning a resonant cavity and a cavity ring-down spectroscopy system using the same. A first mirror is actuated at a first end of a resonant cavity to move in a direction between a first position relative to a second mirror at a second end of the resonant cavity, at which a cavity length between the first mirror and the second mirror is less than a resonance length for a laser beam, and a second position relative to the second mirror, at which the cavity length is greater than the resonance length. An event is triggered when the cavity length is proximal to the resonance length. The first mirror is continuously actuated in the direction between the first position and the second position during the event.

Abstract: An infrared detection system comprises the following elements. A laser source provides radiation for illuminating a target (5). This radiation is tuned to at least one wavelength in the fingerprint region of the infrared spectrum. A detector (32) detects radiation backscattered from the target (5). An analyser determines from at least the presence or absence of detected signal in said at least one wavelength whether a predetermined volatile compound is present. An associated detection method is also provided. In embodiments, the laser source is tunable over a plurality of wavelengths, and the detector comprises a hyperspectral imaging system. The laser source may be an optical parametric device has a laser gain medium for generating a pump beam in a pump laser cavity, a pump laser source and a nonlinear medium comprising a ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first mirror, a second mirror, and a first member. The first mirror has a first planar surface. The second mirror is spaced from the first mirror in a first direction crossing the first planar surface. The second mirror has a concave surface including a first region and a second region around the first region. First distance between the first region and the first planar surface in the first direction is longer than second distance between the second region and the first planar surface in the first direction. The first distance is half or less of curvature radius of the concave surface. The first member is light transmissive and solid. The first member includes a first portion provided between the first mirror and the second mirror. The first portion is in contact with the first planar surface and the concave surface.

Abstract: The invention describes a laser printing system (100) for illuminating an object moving relative to a laser module of the laser printing system (100) in a working plane (180), the laser module comprising at least two laser arrays of semiconductor lasers and at least one optical element, wherein the optical element is adapted to image laser light emitted by the laser arrays, such that laser light of semiconductor lasers of one laser array is imaged to one pixel in the working plane of the laser printing system, and wherein the laser printing system is a 3D printing system for additive manufacturing and wherein two, three, four or a multitude of laser modules (201, 202) are provided, which are arranged in columns (c1, c2) perpendicular to a direction of movement (250) of the object in the working plane (180), and wherein the columns are staggered with respect to each other such that a first laser module (201) of a first column of laser modules (c1) is adapted to illuminate a first area (y1) of the object and a

Abstract: A method obtains the shape of a target by projecting and recording images of dual frequency fringe patterns. Locations in each projector image plane are encoded into the patterns and projected onto die target while images are recorded. The resulting images show the patterns superimposed onto the target. The images are decoded to recover relative phase values for the patterns primary and dual frequencies. The relative phases are unwrapped into absolute phases and converted back to projector image plane locations. The relation between camera pixels and decoded projector locations is saved as a correspondence image representing the measured shape of the target. Correspondence images with a geometric triangulation method create a 3D model of the target. Dual frequency hinge patterns have a low frequency embedded into a high frequency sinusoidal, both frequencies are recovered in closed form by the decoding method, thus, enabling direct phase unwrapping.

Abstract: A laser adjustment method includes a first adjustment step and a second adjustment step. In the first adjustment step, using a light detector detecting a second harmonic light, optical intensity and wavelength of the second harmonic light is detected and a first temperature adjuster is adjusted to adjust temperatures of a Nd:YVO4 crystal and a KTP crystal such that the detected wavelength of the second harmonic light approaches a desired wavelength and such that the optical intensity of the second harmonic light reaches at least a predetermined value. In the second adjustment step, after the first adjustment step, a temperature of an etalon is adjusted by a second temperature adjuster such that the detected wavelength of the second harmonic light approaches the desired wavelength and such that the optical intensity of the second harmonic light reaches at least a predetermined value.

Abstract: Systems including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are provided. The systems include one or more wavelength-converting member(s) that is/are remote from the emission surface of one or more LED-based light source(s). The wavelength-converting member may be separated from the emission surface of a first LED and positioned such that light emitted from the first LED is absorbed by the wavelength-converting material. The wavelength-converting material emits secondary light having a different wavelength than the wavelength of the light emitted from the first LED. The systems may include a second light source comprising a second LED configured to emit light having a wavelength from an emission surface and a wavelength-combining element configured to combine the secondary light from the wavelength-converting member and the light emitted from the second light source to form a co-axial light beam.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward optics and imaging. As may be implemented with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes one or more phase masks that operate with an objective lens and a microlens array to alter a phase characteristic of light travelling in a path from a specimen, through the objective lens and microlens array and to a photosensor array. Using this approach, the specimen can be imaged with spatial resolution characteristics provided via the altered phase characteristic, which can facilitate construction of an image with enhanced resolution.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nonlinear optical (NLO) material for use in deep-UV applications, and methods of fabrication thereof. The NLO is fabricated from a plurality of components according to the formula AqByCz and a crystallographic non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structure. The NLO material may be fabricated as a polycrystalline or a single crystal material. In an embodiment, the material may be according to a formula Ba3ZnB5PO14.

Abstract: A laser device includes a light source that emits a source light having a first peak wavelength. A nonlinear optical component performs a frequency conversion process that converts the source light into output light having a second peak wavelength. A stabilization component minimizes a mismatch error constituting a difference between the first peak wavelength and a wavelength for which the frequency conversion process in the nonlinear optical component has a maximum value. The stabilization component may include a housing that is thermally conductive between the light source and the nonlinear optical component to minimize a temperature difference between the light source and the nonlinear optical component. The laser device may include a focusing optical component that focuses the source light to have a convergence half angle that is larger than a convergence half angle that gives maximum output power, thereby increasing an acceptable range of the mismatch error.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device is disclosed that includes a laser resonator situated to produce a laser beam, with the laser resonator including an angled distributed Bragg reflector (a-DBR) region including first and second ends defining an a-DBR region length corresponding to a Bragg resonance condition with the first end being uncleaved and including a first mode hop region having a first end optically coupled to the a-DBR region first end and extending a first mode hop region length associated with the a-DBR region length to a second end so as to provide a variable longitudinal mode selection for the laser beam.

Abstract: A laser assembly for generating laser output light at an output wavelength of approximately 183 nm includes a fundamental laser, an optical parametric system (OPS), a fifth harmonic generator, and a frequency mixing module. The fundamental laser generates fundamental light at a fundamental frequency. The OPS generates a down-converted signal at a down-converted frequency. The fifth harmonic generator generates a fifth harmonic of the fundamental light. The frequency mixing module mixes the down-converted signal and the fifth harmonic to produce the laser output light at a frequency equal to a sum of the fifth harmonic frequency and the down-converted frequency. The OPS generates the down-converted signal by generating a down-converted seed signal at the down-converted frequency, and then mixing the down-converted seed signal with a portion of the fundamental light.

Abstract: A device for the exact manipulation of material, especially of organic material, includes a pulsed laser system with a radiation source, said radiation source being a cavity-dumped fs oscillator.

Abstract: An optical switch includes a first optical absorbing layer sensitive to a first light and having a first superlattice structure and a first bandgap; a second optical absorbing layer sensitive to a second light and having a second bandgap smaller than that of the first bandgap; and a barrier layer having a second superlattice structure. The first optical absorbing layer, the second optical absorbing layer, and the barrier layer are arranged in a direction of an axis to form an arrangement with a first band-offset in a conduction band of the first optical absorbing layer, a second band-offset in a conduction band of the barrier layer, and a well in a conduction band of the second optical absorbing layer.

Abstract: Pulsed fiber lasers that amplify seed laser pulses include pump laser drivers that produce simmer currents during periods in which the seed pulse is suspended, and forward currents associated with steady state pulse amplification. By suitable selection of simmer currents, initiation of a series of seed pulses produces pulse-to-pulse output powers with suitable power variation.

Abstract: A deep ultra-violet (DUV) continuous wave (CW) laser includes a fundamental CW laser configured to generate a fundamental frequency with a corresponding wavelength between about 1 ?m and 1.1 ?m, a third harmonic generator module including one or more non-linear optical (NLO) crystals that generate a third harmonic and an optional second harmonic, and a fifth harmonic generator. The fifth harmonic generator module includes a cavity resonant at the fundamental frequency, and combines the fundamental frequency with the third harmonic in a first NLO crystal to generate a fourth harmonic, then combines the fourth harmonic with unconsumed fundamental frequency in a second NLO crystal to generate the fifth harmonic. One or more lenses are used to focus the third and fourth harmonics in the first and second NLO crystals, respectively.

Abstract: The present application discloses image generation device for generating sample image representing sample. The image generation device includes laser source portion which emits laser beam, convertor for converting laser beam into multiplexed beam, in which reflected beam after reflection of laser beam by sample and reference beam after modulation of phase of the laser beam are multiplexed, first signal generator which generates first detection signal corresponding to light quantity of multiplexed beam, image generator which generates sample image, and modulator which modulates the phase to cause periodic variation of light quantity of multiplexed beam. The first detection signal includes signal component representing change from increase to decrease in the periodic variation. The image generator uses signal component to generate sample image.

Abstract: A cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy instrument has an optical cavity with two or more cavity mirrors, one mirror of which having a hole or other aperture for injecting a light beam, and the same or another mirror of which being partially transmissive to allow exit of light to a detector. A spherical-spherical configuration with at least one astigmatic mirror or a spherical-cylindrical configuration where the spherical mirror could also be astigmatic prevents a reentrant condition wherein the injected beam would prematurely exit the cavity through the aperture. This combination substantially increases the number of passes of the injected beam through a sample volume for sensitive detection of chemical species even in less than ideal conditions including low power laser or LED sources, poor mirror reflectivity or detector noise at the wavelengths of interest, or cavity alignment issues such as vibration or temperature and pressure changes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a laser module, and a laser module package, and the method for manufacturing a laser module. Rapidity, accuracy and high reliability of the manufactured module can be obtained by aligning precisely using an automated equipment, and fixing components through laser welding.

Abstract: A laser device includes a light source that emits a source light having a first peak wavelength. A nonlinear optical component performs a frequency conversion process that converts the source light into output light having a second peak wavelength. A stabilization component minimizes a mismatch error constituting a difference between the first peak wavelength and a wavelength for which the frequency conversion process in the nonlinear optical component has a maximum value. The stabilization component may include a housing that is thermally conductive between the light source and the nonlinear optical component to minimize a temperature difference between the light source and the nonlinear optical component. The laser device may include a focusing optical component that focuses the source light to have a convergence half angle that is larger than a convergence half angle that gives maximum output power, thereby increasing an acceptable range of the mismatch error.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating tunable attosecond-scale radiation pulses, with a frequency in range of mid-infrared to ultra-violet, from a silicon medium. The invention utilizes an intense laser pulse to drive a high harmonic generation (HHG) process in a silicon medium and a weak secondary field to control the HHG process. The weak secondary field has a frequency equal to the second harmonic of the intense laser pulse. The spatial, temporal and spectral properties of the HHG process and the emitted harmonic beam are tuned by adjusting the relative delay between the two fields and the intensity of the weak secondary field.

Abstract: An electric double-layer ultracapacitor configured to maintain desired operation at an operating voltage of three volts, where the capacitor includes a housing component, a first and a second current collector, a positive and a negative electrode electrically coupled to one of the first and second current collectors, and a separator positioned between the positive and the negative electrode. The capacitor may also include an electrolyte in ionic contact with the electrodes and the separator, the electrolyte having acetonitrile and a quaternary ammonium salt with a molarity of less than one.

Abstract: A system and method for treating ophthalmic target tissue in which a light source generates a beam of light, a scanner unit deflects the beam of light into a pattern, a beam delivery unit for delivering the pattern to ophthalmic target tissue. The light is either pulsed or moved across the target tissue such that the light pulses having a duration of, or the light dwells on any given point of target tissue for, between 30 ?s and 10 ms.

Abstract: A method and system for providing illumination is disclosed. The method may include providing a laser having a predetermined wavelength; performing at least one of: beam splitting or beam scanning prior to a frequency conversion; converting a frequency of each output beam of the at least one of: beam splitting or beam scanning; and providing the frequency converted output beam for illumination.

Abstract: An optical communication device includes a circuit board, a light-emitting element, a light-receiving element, and a planar light guide circuit. The circuit board includes an upper mounting surface. The upper mounting surface defines a groove. The groove includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The first and the second inclined surfaces are slanted relative to a bottom surface of the groove and connected between the upper mounting surface and the bottom surface. A reflection layer is coated on the first and second inclined surfaces. The light-emitting element includes a light emergent surface, and the light-receiving element includes a light incident surface. The light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are mounted on the upper mounting surface. The planar light guide circuit is received in the groove. Two ends of the planar light guide circuit face reflection layers of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a white light source comprising: a blue light emitting diode (blue LED) having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 421 to 490 nm; and a phosphor layer including phosphor and resin, wherein the white light source satisfies a relational equation of ?0.2?[(P(?)×V(?))/(P(?max1)×V(?max1))?(B?)×V(?))/(B(?max2)×V(?max2))]?+0.2, assuming that: a light emission spectrum of the white light source is P(?); a light emission spectrum of black-body radiation having a same color temperature as that of the white light source is B(?); a spectrum of a spectral luminous efficiency is V(?); a wavelength at which P(?)×V(?) becomes largest is ?max1; and a wavelength at which B(?)×V(?) becomes largest is ?max2, and wherein an amount of chromaticity change on CIE chromaticity diagram from a time of initial lighting up of the white light source to a time after the white light source is continuously lighted up for 6000 hours is less than 0.010.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating tunable attosecond-scale radiation pulses, with a frequency in range of ultraviolet to soft-X-ray, from a solid-state medium. The invention utilizes an intense laser pulse to drive a high harmonic generation (HHG) process in a solid state medium and a weak secondary field to control the HHG process. The weak secondary field has a frequency equal to the second harmonic of the intense laser pulse. The spatial, temporal and spectral properties of the HHG process and the emitted harmonic beam are tuned by adjusting the relative delay between the two fields and the intensity of the weak secondary field.

Abstract: A method for estimating a parameter includes: transmitting a control signal to a coherent optical source, the control signal configured to chaotically vary an output of the optical source and generate a chaotically excited optical signal; transmitting the optical signal from the optical source into an optical fiber, the optical fiber including at least one sensing location; receiving a reflected signal including light reflected from the at least one sensing location; and estimating a value of the parameter using the reflected signal.

Abstract: A stereoscopic projection system and method of generating light that include two or three infrared lasers, two optical parametric oscillators, and six or seven second harmonic generators. Six colors of visible light are produced. Three bands of red, green, and blue form an image for the left eye of the viewer, while the other three bands of red, green, and blue form an image for the right eye of the viewer.

Abstract: A lighting device may include a plurality of laser light sources, and an optical apparatus for concentrating the light emitted by the laser light sources. The optical apparatus has at least one ring-shaped reflector having a parabolic light reflection surface and at least one light conversion element for light wavelength conversion, which is arranged at the focus of the at least one ring-shaped reflector.

Abstract: An ultraviolet laser device, includes: a first laser light output unit outputs a first infrared laser light; a second laser light output unit outputs a second infrared laser light; a first wavelength conversion optical system generates a first ultraviolet laser light of a fifth harmonic of the first infrared laser light; and a second wavelength conversion optical system to which the first ultraviolet laser light and the second infrared laser light enter, wherein the second wavelength conversion optical system includes a first wavelength conversion optical element which generates a second ultraviolet laser light by sum frequency generation of the first ultraviolet laser light and the second infrared laser light, and a second wavelength conversion optical element which generates a deep ultraviolet laser light by sum frequency generation of the second ultraviolet laser light and the second infrared laser light.

Abstract: Cascaded optical harmonic generators and methods for cascaded optical harmonic generation are disclosed. Relative disposition of individual harmonic generators of a cascaded harmonic generator in an optical path of the fundamental optical beam may be reversed. In a third harmonic generator, the fundamental optical beam may enter the third harmonic crystal first, and the second harmonic crystal second. When the fundamental optical beam enters the third harmonic crystal first, the fundamental light may remain non-depleted by second harmonic generation process.

Abstract: Radiation from a VBG-locked diode-laser at a locked wavelength of 878.6 nm is focused into a 30-mm long Nd:YVO4 optical amplifier crystal for optically pumping the crystal (24). The crystal amplifies a beam of seed-pulses from a fiber MOPA (12). The power of pump radiation is about 75 Watts. The radiation is focused into a beam-waist having a minimum diameter of about 600 micrometers. This provides an amplifier having a high gain-factor well over 100. The high-gain factor provides a gain-shaping effect on the seed-pulse beam which overcomes thermal aberrations inherent in such high-power pumping, thereby producing an amplified seed-pulse beam with M2 less than 1.3.

Abstract: A semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector laser configured for single longitudinal mode operation, having an optical waveguide comprising an optical gain section, a first reflector being a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) section comprising a grating configured to produce a reflection spectrum having one or more first reflective peaks, and a second reflector, wherein the first DBR section is configured to compensate for thermal chirp that is induced inhomogeneously along the length of the DBR section, in use.

Abstract: A Q-switched solid-state laser has a neodymium-doped yttrium vanadate single-crystal gain-element in the form of a prism. The prism incorporates the functions of a gain-element, a polarizer, a resonator end-mirror and an output coupler.

Abstract: A laser system comprises a pump diode, fiber, relay optics, and a microchip laser crystal. The pump diode produces light at a first wavelength. The fiber receives the light from the pump diode and produces a round, homogeneous light spot at an output of the fiber. The relay optics receives the light from the fiber. The microchip laser crystal receives the light from the relay optics and produces a linearly polarized single frequency output at a second wavelength. The microchip laser crystal includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer absorbs the light at the first wavelength and emits light at the second wavelength. The second layer receives the light at the second wavelength and either provides a polarization dependent loss at the second wavelength or maintains a polarization of the light at the second wavelength.

Abstract: A laser device capable to simultaneously generate light at multiple wavelengths that are independently (and, optionally, simultaneously) tunable without a limit of how small a spectral separation between such wavelengths can be made is enabled with the use of a laser-cavity network that (i) contains multiple spatially-distinct laser cavity portions all of which have at least one spatial region of the cavity network in common and (ii) is defined by such optical elements that prevent the intracavity amplification of light at first and second of multiple wavelengths at the expense of the same laser gain medium. Each of the distinct cavity portions contains a dedicated laser chip supporting the generation of light at a corresponding wavelength. In a special case, at least two of the multiple lasing wavelengths in the output of the device can be simultaneously and independently tuned to become equal.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for making a laser module, comprising: Step 1: fixing a laser crystal and a nonlinear crystal through at least one spacing element to form a first structure; Step 2: assembling the first structure on a substrate; Step 3: removing the spacing element to form a first laser module. According to the invention, the laser crystal and the nonlinear crystal are separately fixed on a heat conductive substrate to form the laser module, thereby the size of the laser module is reduced.

Abstract: A laser device includes: a signal light source that outputs seed light; an electro-optic modulator that chops a portion of the seed light outputted from the signal light source and outputs signal light; an optical amplifier that amplifies the signal light outputted from the electro-optic modulator; a wavelength conversion optical element that wavelength converts the signal light amplified by the optical amplifier; a converted light detector that detects the signal light that has been wavelength converted by the wavelength conversion optical element; and an EU control unit that controls the operation of the electro-optic modulator, wherein the EU control unit is adapted, in the state in which the seed light is being outputted, to adjust bias voltage of the electro-optic modulator on the basis of the applied voltage when the intensity of the signal light after wavelength conversion detected by the converted light detector becomes substantially maximum.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion laser light source, includes: a solid laser medium; a wavelength conversion element; a concave mirror on which a first reflecting surface reflecting a fundamental light wave and a the second harmonic light wave is formed; and a wavelength plate on which a second reflecting surface reflecting the fundamental light wave and transmitting the second harmonic light wave is formed, wherein a laser resonator is constituted by the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface; the solid laser medium is arranged on a first reflecting surface side of the laser resonator, the wavelength plate is arranged on a second reflecting surface side of the laser resonator, and the wavelength conversion element is arranged between the solid laser medium and the wavelength plate; and the wavelength plate outputs the second harmonic wave, to the exterior of the laser resonator, via the second reflecting surface.