Light-emitting apparatus and method for checking light-emitting apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorShintaro Hayashi
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Abstract
A light-emitting apparatus includes: a radiation apparatus which includes a first laser diode and a second laser diode; a light guide which includes a first photoreceptor, a second photoreceptor, and a leak, and guides laser light received by the first photoreceptor and the second photoreceptor, the leak allowing leakage laser light to be leaked out in a direction crossing a light-guiding direction, the leakage laser light being part of the laser light; a converter which converts a wavelength of the leakage laser light leaked out of the light guide; and a detector which detects, at a non-radiation time in which laser light is not radiated, an electromotive force of the first laser diode, the electromotive force being based on laser light radiated by the second laser diode.
Claims5
A light-emitting apparatus, comprising:
- a radiation apparatus including a first laser diode and a second laser diode;
- a light guide which includes a first light-receiving portion at one end, a second light-receiving portion at another end, and a leak, the first light-receiving portion receiving laser light radiated by the first laser diode, the second light-receiving portion receiving laser light radiated by the second laser diode, the light guide guiding the laser light received by the first light-receiving portion to the second light-receiving portion, and the laser light received by the second light-receiving portion to the first light-receiving portion, the leak allowing leakage laser light to be leaked out in a direction crossing a light-guiding direction, the leakage laser light being part of the laser light;
- a converter which is disposed along the light guide and converts a wavelength of the leakage laser light leaked out of the light guide;
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- a detector which detects, at a non-radiation time in which the first laser diode does not radiate laser light, an electromotive force of the first laser diode and informs status information about a status of the light guide, the electromotive force being based on the laser light radiated by the second laser diode.
A method for checking a light-emitting apparatus which includes:
- a radiation apparatus including a laser diode;
- a light guide which includes a first light-receiving portion at one end, a second light-receiving portion at another end, and a leak, the light guide guiding laser light radiated by the radiation apparatus and received by the first light-receiving portion and the second light-receiving portion, the leak allowing leakage laser light to be leaked out in a direction crossing a light-guiding direction, the leakage laser light being part of the laser light;
- a converter which is disposed along the light guide and converts a wavelength of the leakage laser light leaked out of the light guide;
- and a detector which detects, at a non-radiation time in which the laser diode does not radiate laser light, an electromotive force of the laser diode and informs status information about a status of the light guide, the electromotive force being based on the laser light radiated by the laser diode, the method comprising:
- oscillating laser light weaker than a rated output of the laser diode before the light-emitting apparatus emits light by causing the laser diode to oscillate laser light at the rated output;
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- informing an abnormality of the light guide when the detector determines that the electromotive force of the laser diode is less than or equal to a first threshold.
A light-emitting apparatus, comprising:
- a radiation apparatus including a laser diode;
- a beam splitter that splits laser light radiated by the radiation apparatus into two beams of the laser light;
- a light guide which includes a first light-receiving portion at one end, a second light-receiving portion at another end, and a leak, the light guide guiding one of the two beams of the laser light split by the beam splitter and received by the first light-receiving portion to the second light-receiving portion, and another of the two beams of the laser light split by the beam splitter and received by the second light-receiving portion to the first light-receiving portion, the leak allowing leakage laser light to be leaked out in a direction crossing a light-guiding direction, the leakage laser light being part of the laser light;
- a converter which is disposed along the light guide and converts a wavelength of the leakage laser light leaked out of the light guide;
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- a detector which detects, at a non-radiation time in which the laser diode does not radiate laser light, an electromotive force that is generated in the laser diode by the laser light radiated by the laser diode and returning through the light guide to the laser diode, and informs status information about a status of the light guide.
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