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Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Takayuki Yanagisawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshihito Hirano, Tokyo, JP;

Shuhei Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuharu Koyata, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takayuki Yanagisawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshihito Hirano, Tokyo, JP;

Shuhei Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuharu Koyata, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A wavelength conversion laser device includes a solid-state laser element having a waveguide structure including a laser medium that amplifies laser beams by providing a gain generated due to absorption of pump light to the laser beams and outputs a fundamental wave, and a wavelength conversion element having a waveguide structure including a nonlinear optical material that converts a part of a fundamental wave output from the solid-state laser element to a second harmonic, to resonate the fundamental wave by an optical resonator structure including the solid-state laser element and the wavelength conversion element and outputs a second harmonic from the wavelength conversion element. The solid-state laser element outputs a linearly polarized fundamental wave, and differentiates a polarization state of a fundamental wave having passed through the wavelength conversion element and entering into the solid-state laser element from linear polarization output from the solid-state laser element, so that wavelength conversion efficiency of the wavelength conversion element is not decreased in a peak wavelength of a gain band.


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