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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 3/14 ;
Abstract
A beam shaper is made up of a single lens whose both surfaces are toric surfaces. Assuming that directions where the beam divergence angle are larger and smaller in the far field from the semiconductor laser source are referred to as the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively, both of the toric surfaces have aspheric surfaces in a cross-section in the vertical direction, both of the toric surfaces have spherical surfaces in a cross-section in the horizontal direction, and both centers of curvature of the spherical surfaces are located substantially at a luminous point of the semiconductor laser source.