Abstract:
A Device for coupling a short pulse laser into a microscope beam path, wherein the spectral components of the laser radiation are spatially separated by means of a dispersive element, the individual spectral components are manipulated and are then spatially superimposed again by means of another dispersive element.
Abstract:
An optical spectrum analyzer measures to-be-measured light while carrying out calibration processing for correcting wavelength information of spectrum data of the to-be-measured light by a wavelength information correction device through a storage device based on the spectrum data of reference light that is obtained by causing the reference light whose wavelength is known to be incident on a tunable wavelength filter from light incident devices at all times together with the to-be-measured light. Since the optical spectrum analyzer can continuously measure the to-be-measured light in a wide wavelength range at high speed while maintaining high wavelength accuracy, it can continuously obtain the spectrum data of the to-be-measured light with high wavelength accuracy even if it is installed in a place in which an environment intensely changes.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a diffraction grating element that allows the temperature control mechanism to be dispensed with or simplified. The diffraction grating element of the present invention comprises a transparent plate having a first surface and a second surface that are substantially parallel with one another; and a diffraction grating which is formed on a first surface side with respect to the second surface and is substantially parallel with the first surface. At any temperature within a temperature range −20° C. to +80° C., the sum of the rate of change in the period per unit length of the diffraction grating with respect to a temperature change, and the temperature coefficient of the refractive index of a medium that surrounds the diffraction grating element is 0.
Abstract:
A Device for coupling a short pulse laser into a microscope beam path, wherein the spectral components of the laser radiation are spatially separated by means of a dispersive element, the individual spectral components are manipulated and are then spatially superimposed again by means of another dispersive element.
Abstract:
nullProblemnull Provided is a diffraction grating element that allows the temperature control mechanism to be dispensed with or simplified. nullMeans of Solutionnull A diffraction grating element 1 is a diffraction grating element in which, in a transparent flat plate 10 having a first surface 10A and a second surface 10B which are parallel with one another and are in contact with a medium, a diffraction grating is formed on the first surface 10 A. The grating direction of the diffraction grating formed in the first surface 10A is parallel with the y axis direction, and a recess and protrusion are cyclically formed at a period null in the x axis direction. For example, the medium 21 and 22 are air, and the transparent flat plate 10 consists of silica glass. At any temperature within the temperature range from null20null C. to null80null C., the sum of a linear expansion coefficient of a period null of the diffraction grating and the temperature coefficient of the refractive index of the medium 21 and 22 is 0.
Abstract:
A high resolution spectral measurement device. A preferred embodiment presents an extremely narrow slit function in the ultraviolet range and is very useful for measuring bandwidth of narrow-band excimer lasers used for integrated circuit lithography. Light from the laser is focused into a diffuser and the diffused light exiting the diffuser illuminates an etalon. A portion of its light exiting the etalon is collected and directed into a slit positioned at a fringe pattern of the etalon. Light passing through the slit is collimated and the collimated light illuminates a grating positioned in an approximately Littrow configuration which disburses the light according to wavelength. A portion of the dispursed light representing the wavelength corresponding to the selected etalon fringe is passed through a second slit and monitored by a light detector. When the etalon and the grating are tuned to the same precise wavelength a slit function is defined which is extremely narrow such as about 0.034 pm (FWHM) and about 0.091 pm (95 percent integral). The bandwidth of a laser beam can be measured very accurately by a directing portion of the laser beam into the insulator and scanning the laser wavelength over a range which includes the monochromator slit wavelength. In a second embodiment the second slit and the light detector is replaced by a photodiod array and the bandwidth of a laser beam is determined by analyzing a set of scan data from the photodiode array. Alternately, the laser wavelength can be fixed near the middle of the spectrum range of the grating spectrometer, and the etalon can be scanned.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and encoders employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or imaged along a line.
Abstract:
Multiplexed grating and grating/prism devices are particularly suited to DWDM optical telecommunications networks, finding utility in optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs) and fiber multiplexer/demultiplexers. The invention may be used to address both single- and dual-band configurations through adjustment of the grating, detector array, and/or inclusion of a fiber-optic switch. As a dual-band OSA covering the C- and L-bands, a device according to the invention may be used to replace two separate OSAs like those currently in production, at only a modest increase in cost relative to a single-band OSA.
Abstract:
A small-sized and low-cost wavelength division multiplexer having little insertion loss, little polarization dependence and a broad wavelength bandwidth, the wavelength division multiplexer adopting a grating configuration in which an incident light is retroreflected, exit lights from respective grooves are enhanced by interference effect in the incident direction of the light, wave surfaces of evanescent waves in the grooves are parallel to the normal direction of the grating and phases of the evanescent waves in the respective grooves agree with each other. The wavelength division multiplexer has high diffraction efficiency in each of TM and TE polarized lights at a several-order diffraction order and accordingly has a broad wavelength bandwidth and remarkably low polarization dependence.
Abstract:
A Littman configuration type wavelength tuning mechanism comprising an LD block (1), a grating (3) and a wavelength adjusting mirror (4). In the wavelength tuning mechanism, turning means realizing a Littman configuration of said grating with regard to said wavelength adjusting mirror is realized by an armless structure to be turned about the virtual pivot (2-2) of said wavelength adjusting mirror