The invention provides a light generating device (1000) configured to generate device light (1001), wherein the light generating device (1000) comprises: a first light source (110) configured to generate one or more of UV and blue first light source light (111), wherein the first light source (110) is a first laser light source (10); a second light source (120) configured to generated green second light source light (121), wherein the second light source (120) is a second laser light source (20); a third light source (130) configured to generate red third light source light (131), wherein the third light source (130) is a third laser light source (30); a fourth light source (140) configured to generate blue fourth light source light (141), wherein the fourth light source (140) is a fourth laser light source (40); a first luminescent material (210) configured to convert at least part of the first light source light (111) into first luminescent material light (211) having an emission band having wavelengths in one or more of (a) the green spectral wavelength range and (b) the yellow spectral wavelength range, wherein the first luminescent material (210) comprises a luminescent material of the type A3B5O12:Ce, wherein A comprises one or more of Y, La, Gd, Tb and Lu, and wherein B comprises one or more of Al, Ga, In and Sc; an optical element (430) configured to combine (i) optionally unconverted first light source light (111), (ii) the second light source light (121), (iii) the third light source light (131), (iv) the fourth light source light (141), and (v) the first luminescent material light (211), to provide device light (1001), wherein the light generating device (1000) is configured to provide in an operational mode white device light (1001) comprising at least the luminescent material light (211) and the fourth light source light (141); and a control system (300) configured to control one or more of the light sources (110, 120, 130, 140).

A fiber structure includes a covering part, the covering part having an optical fiber strand and a coating covering the optical fiber strand; a strand exposed part adjacent to the covering part, the strand exposed part including an exposed optical fiber strand, and a sealing part covering a boundary between the covering part and the strand exposed part. The sealing part including a fluororesin having a structure represented by formula (1):

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where R represents a divalent organic fluorine compound group, and n represents an integer of 1 or more.

An array type semiconductor laser device includes: a second electrode (p-electrode) disposed on another conductivity type semiconductor layer; a third electrode (n-electrode) disposed on a one conductivity type semiconductor layer and between a first electrode (p-electrode) and the second electrode; a fifth electrode (n-electrode) disposed on the one conductivity type semiconductor layer and between the third electrode and the second electrode; a sixth electrode (n-electrode) disposed on the one conductivity type semiconductor layer and across from the fifth electrode; a first conductor (wire) that electrically connects the second electrode and the third electrode; and a second conductor (n-wiring) that electrically connects the fifth electrode and the sixth electrode.

A light source module includes a first semiconductor laser element hermetically sealed, a second semiconductor laser element hermetically sealed, and firth to fourth optical elements. A first laser beam prior to reaching the first optical element has divergence angle θfd1 in a direction along a second optical axis and divergence angle θsd1 in a direction along a third optical axis, and satisfy 90°>θfd1>θsd1>0°. Divergence angle θfd12 of a first laser beam in the direction along the second optical axis decreases from divergence angle θfd1, the first laser beam having exited the first optical element. A component of a first laser beam in the direction along the second optical axis is collimated, the first laser beam having exited the second optical element. The same applies to the second semiconductor laser element.

A light source apparatus can avoid double-counting of particles in a flow cytometer for measuring and analyzing a plurality of particles flowing in a flow cell. A light source apparatus for a flow cytometer includes a semiconductor laser for emitting a laser beam, a collimating lens for collimating the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser in a spread light state, a first beam conversion unit composed of prisms and a second beam conversion unit composed of prisms for matching a flow cell length direction with a slow axis direction of the collimated laser beam in a flow cell after reducing the beam diameter in a fast axis direction and increasing the beam diameter in the slow axis direction, and a focusing lens for focusing the laser beam passed through these beam conversion units in the flow cell.

A light emitting device includes: a base that extends in one direction and that is formed of a metal block; plural light emitters that are disposed on a front surface side of the base so as to be displaced from each other in the one direction and in each of which plural light sources that are arranged in the one direction are supported by a support that extends in the one direction; and a protective member that is provided at an end portion of the base in a direction intersecting the one direction, that is disposed on a lateral side of the plural light emitters so as to extend in the one direction, and that protects the plural light emitters from outside.

A semiconductor laser has a mirror formed in a gain chip. The mirror can be placed in the gain chip to provide a broadband reflector to support multiple lasers using the gain chip. The mirror can also be placed in the gain chip to have the semiconductor laser be more efficient or more powerful by changing an optical path length of the gain of the semiconductor laser.

An optical module, including: a first laser and a first laser chip for driving the first laser; a second laser and a second laser chip for driving the second laser; and a multi-layer circuit board, including a surface layer, a reference layer, and an intermediate layer provided between the surface layer and the reference layer, where a first row of edge connector pins and a second row of edge connector pins are disposed in at least one surface layer; the first row of edge connector pins are disposed to be closer than the second row of edge connector pins to a side edge, of the multi-layer circuit board, that is provided with an edge connector; and a region, of the intermediate layer, that corresponds to a data signal line pin in the second row of edge connector pins is a hollow region.

An optical module, including: a first laser and a first laser chip for driving the first laser; a second laser and a second laser chip for driving the second laser; and a multi-layer circuit board, including a surface layer, a reference layer, and an intermediate layer provided between the surface layer and the reference layer, where a first row of edge connector pins and a second row of edge connector pins are disposed in at least one surface layer; the first row of edge connector pins are disposed to be closer than the second row of edge connector pins to a side edge, of the multi-layer circuit board, that is provided with an edge connector; and a region, of the intermediate layer, that corresponds to a data signal line pin in the second row of edge connector pins is a hollow region.

An optical module includes: a substrate; one or more light sources that produce light that is an optical signal; one or more light reflection units that change the direction of travel of the light to a direction substantially perpendicular to the substrate; one or more optical waveguides that optically connect the one or more light sources and the one or more light reflection units to each other; and a lid that is attached to the substrate to cover the one or more light sources, the one or more light reflection units and the one or more optical waveguides. The lid has one or more lenses that collimate light directed by the one or more light reflection units and transmit the light to the outside of the lid.