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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2008
Masato Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Masato Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A broadband light source unit that produces a supercontinuum lightwave having a flat spectral form and has a light source that outputs a first source lightwave, which is a pulse lightwave having periodic pulses with a constant intensity, an intensity modulator that receives the first source lightwave, produces a second source lightwave having pulses whose intensities are different from one another, and outputs it, and a nonlinear optical medium section that receives the second source lightwave, produces a supercontinuum lightwave having a wavelength band broadened through a nonlinear optical phenomenon, and outputs it. An optical analyzer includes a light-applying section that applies a supercontinuum lightwave outputted from the broadband light source unit to a light-receiving region of a measurement-undergoing object, and an image pickup section that receives a lightwave generated at the light-receiving region by the application of the supercontinuum lightwave and picks up an image of the measurement-undergoing object.