Laser device and microscope
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorShogo Yamazoe
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Abstract
A laser device is equipped with an exciting optical system having a GaN semiconductor laser and a condensing lens; and a resonator having of a dichroic mirror and an output mirror, and a solid laser medium is disposed within the resonator. The solid laser medium is disposed in the resonator such that the c axis of a crystal is parallel to the x axis. The exciting optical system is disposed such that the direction in which excitation light emitted from the GaN semiconductor laser is polarized is parallel to the y axis, and is formed so as to absorb excitation light in the crystal axis perpendicular to the c axis. The direction in which the oscillation light emitted from the solid laser medium is polarized coincides with a direction parallel to the c-axis direction, and also coincides with a direction along the x axis.
Claims10
A laser device comprising:
- a resonator;
- a solid laser medium that is disposed in the resonator and that outputs, as oscillation light, linear polarized light polarized in a direction parallel to a first crystal axis due to excitation light being made incident thereon;
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- an exciting unit that allows the excitation light to be made incident on the solid laser medium, which excitation light is linear polarized light having a wavelength in a blue region and is polarized in a direction intersecting the first crystal axis of the solid laser medium,
- wherein an absorption intensity of the excitation light in the solid laser medium in the direction in which the excitation light is polarized is larger than that of the excitation light in the direction parallel to the first crystal axis, and a light emission intensity in a predetermined oscillation wavelength region in regard to the direction parallel to the first crystal axis is larger than the light emission intensity in the direction in which the excitation light is polarized.
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