Radiant energy – Luminophor irradiation – Methods
Patent
1995-09-07
1996-12-10
Fields, Carolyn E.
Radiant energy
Luminophor irradiation
Methods
2504581, 359196, G01N 2164
Patent
active
055833420
ABSTRACT:
A laser scanning optical system is so arranged to comprise an optical converting unit, an optical scanning unit, and an optical converging unit. Here, the optical converting unit is composed of two axicon prisms which are arranged such that apexes thereof are opposed forward or backward to each other at a predetermined distance and optical axes thereof are coincident with each other and which are made of respective materials having a same refractive index and shaped with a same apical angle. By this, the laser beam incident into the optical converting unit becomes a cylindrical ray bundle having an annular cross-sectional intensity perpendicular to the optical axis. Therefore, the cylindrical ray bundle is changed in the traveling direction by the optical scanning unit to be scanned and is then converged by the optical converging unit to become a Bessel beam having a high energy utilization factor, a high resolution and a long focal depth.
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Fields Carolyn E.
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
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