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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1998
Hiroyuki Hiiro, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A laser beam having a high power and preferable quality is obtained by a laser using a laser medium having a wide active region or a large mode volume. The laser includes a laser source, first and second resonator mirrors as a laser resonator optical system, an array illuminator optical system which is placed within the resonator optical system and places, at even spacing in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the resonator, complex amplitude distributions including only a fundamental transverse mode in a uniform phase similar to a fundamental transverse mode component of a laser beam emitted from the laser beam source. A higher-order mode component is diffracted in an angle larger than its diffraction angle and eliminated outside the resonator.