Light source device and external cavity laser module
AssigneeNichia Corporation
InventorsNorihiro Dejima, Masaki Omori, Yuto Oki
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Abstract
An external cavity laser module is configured to emit a laser beam and includes: a collimation laser light source having a Littrow configuration; a diffraction grating configured to selectively reflect and transmit light of a specific wavelength; a support member supporting the collimation laser light source and the diffraction grating; and a base rotatably supporting the support member to correct an axial direction of the laser beam emitted from the external cavity laser module.
Claims12
A light source device comprising:
- a plurality of external cavity laser modules configured to emit a plurality of laser beams of different peak wavelengths, each of the plurality of external cavity laser modules configured to emit a respective one of the plurality of laser beams;
- and
- a beam combiner configured to coaxially combine the plurality of laser beams to generate a wavelength-combined beam, wherein:
- each of the plurality of external cavity laser modules comprises:
- a collimation laser light source having a Littrow configuration, and
- a diffraction grating configured to selectively reflect and transmit light of a predetermined wavelength,
- the plurality of external cavity laser modules are arranged so that the plurality of laser beams are incident at different angles on a same region of the beam combiner, and
- each of the plurality of external cavity laser modules comprises:
- a support member supporting the collimation laser light source and the diffraction grating, and
- a base rotatably supporting the support member to correct an axial direction of a laser beam emitted from a respective one of the plurality of external cavity laser modules.
An external cavity laser module configured to emit a laser beam, the external cavity laser module comprising:
- a collimation laser light source having a Littrow configuration;
- a diffraction grating configured to selectively reflect and transmit light of a specific wavelength;
- a support member supporting the collimation laser light source and the diffraction grating;
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- a base rotatably supporting the support member to correct an axial direction of the laser beam emitted from the external cavity laser module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.