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A high efficiency light emitting diode (LED) comprised of a substrate, a buffer layer grown on the substrate (if such a layer is needed), a first active region comprising primary emitting species (PES) that are electrically-injected, a second active region comprising secondary emitting species (SES) that are optically-pumped by the light emitted from the PES, and photonic crystals, wherein the photonic crystals act as diffraction gratings to provide high light extraction efficiency, to provide efficient excitation of the SES, and/or to modulate the far-field emission pattern.

A small, low power consumption light amplifier using stimulated Raman scattering is provided. A Raman active section 18 and a rough surface metal part 21 are provided on one end face of an optical fiber 11, excitation light is irradiated onto the rough surface metal part 21, surface plasmon is generated and signal light 15 is amplified into amplified signal light 16 using stimulated Raman scattering in the interface between the rough surface metal part 21 irradiated with the signal light 15 which has propagated through the core 12 and the Raman active section 18.

An optical fiber can efficiently excite metallic ions by a pump lightwave, and an optical fiber amplifier and an optical fiber laser light source both incorporate the optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises (a) a solid region that has a first region doped with metallic ions and a second region surrounding the first region and that allows a lightwave for exciting the metallic ions to travel in a multiple mode and (b) a third region surrounding the second region and having a plurality of holes stretching along the length of the optical fiber. The optical fiber has a structure in which the first region is supplied with the power of a lightwave that is included in the pump lightwave and that is in a mode having no intensity peak at the center axis of the solid region.

A resonator element includes at least one resonating arm that vibrates in a torsional mode, wherein the resonating arm includes a structural portion having a first portion disposed in a first direction in a sectional view in the width direction and a second portion connected to the first portion so that the center of gravity departs from the center of gravity of the first portion in the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the first portion vibrates in a stretch mode in the length direction of the resonating arm with an application of a voltage, and wherein the second portion does not substantially vibrate in the stretch mode in the length direction of the resonating arm with the application of the voltage or vibrates in a stretch mode with a phase different from that of the first portion.

The present invention discloses to a multi-period cycle-alternative switching mode power supply control device, comprising: a power transfer control unit, a dimming bias control, a burst timing control, and a steering logic; wherein said device has a variable multi-period control cycle to effectively control certain power transfer elements of specific nature and assure those elements and the loading at the rear end can operate more efficiently in a reliable range of specific nature.

A radiating cell having two phase states suitable for a transmitter array able to transmit microwave frequency signals, the cell comprising a first antenna and a second antenna arranged on either side of an assembly comprising two substrate layers separated by a ground plane, the second antenna comprising a conducting element able to radiate, the cell comprising comprises at least two switching means, said means each comprising an on state and an off state between two ports, one of said ports being connected to the second radiating element, said switching means being controlled in opposition. The radiating cell applies notably to the implementation of transmitter arrays employing several configurable cells to control the radiation pattern.

The present invention provides a femtosecond pulse laser modulator and a miniature two-photon microscopic imaging device. The femtosecond pulse laser modulator includes a negative dispersion light path and a positive dispersion light path, wherein the negative dispersion light path includes a laser input fiber, which is configured to transmit laser compensated for through prechirp; the positive dispersion light path is located between a femtosecond pulse laser and the negative dispersion light path, and is configured to compensate for, through prechirp, negative dispersion of the laser produced in the laser input fiber. The femtosecond laser modulator provided in the present invention provides distortion-free transmission for the femtosecond pulse laser with a center wavelength in 920 nm, and effectively excites commonly used biological indicators. The miniature two-photon microscopic imaging device including this femtosecond laser modulator has high speeds in test and application, with high resolution, and is capable of solving the problem of imaging single dendritic spines in a freely behaving animal.

The invention relates to a bioactive substance labeled with Cypridina luciferase and a quantum dot, the bioactive substance being at least one species selected from the group consisting of antibodies, peptides, organic compounds, hormones, enzyme substrates, sugar chains and nucleic acids.

A resonator element includes: a laminate formed by laminating a plurality of piezoelectric substrates in which thickness-shear vibration occurs.

Disclosed is a near field light generator, which makes it possible to generate the near field light in a preferable way. The generator includes: an optical waveguide having a clad, and a core, which is enclosed by the clad, and a refractive index of which is higher than that of the clad; a metal structural body that is shaped in substantially a plain plate, disposed at a position between the clad and the core; and a low refractive layer that is sandwiched between a partial surface of the core and the metal structural body. The electric field component of the light oscillates within an oscillation surface being substantially perpendicular to the partial surface. The width of the metal structural body in a direction substantially perpendicular to the oscillation surface tapers from the light coupling section of the optical waveguide towards the light emitting section of the optical waveguide.

The present invention relates to a multi-period cycle-alternative switching mode power supply control device and its control method, and the device comprises: a power transfer control unit, a dimming bias control, a burst timing control, and a steering logic; and the method is a power control method that uses a burst timing control to produce an ON_OFF (High_Low) control timing, and after regulated power with a different amplitude is added to the OFF period of the burst period between two ON_OFF periods, two or more mixed periods are used to regulate the timing to a highly reliable and a broad dynamic range. The device of the invention can effectively control certain power transfer components of specific nature and assure that those components and the loading at the rear end can operate more efficiently in a reliable range of a specific nature.

When receiving information to specify a purchase portion of contents that are priced so that a portion whose sales unit price gradually increases from a sales unit price of an initial portion exists, and a purchase instruction from a terminal of a purchaser, information concerning a purchase range of the contents and price information is stored into a storage device so as to correspond to the purchaser, and data for the purchase portion of the contents is transmitted to the purchaser. Thus, following benefits are obtained by carrying out not the simple tally trade, but a tally trade of the contents under the price setting in which the sales unit price gradually increases from the initial portion of the contents, for instance. That is, (a) the purchaser can firstly purchase portions of the contents at a low price, and when he or she judges at an early stage that he or she does not like them, and stops their purchase, the cost can be lowered as a whole, and he or she can tentatively read a lot of books. And, (b) the contents seller can obtain the same sales as the conventional one, when the purchaser buys the entire contents, and even if the purchaser stopped his or her purchase halfway, the contents seller can obtain the sales up to the purchased portions. Furthermore, there is a benefit in which the cost can be suppressed to very lower price than selling goods.

A new resonant-cavity-enhanced Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) active optical probe integrates a semiconductor laser source and an aperture AFM/near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) probe in either external-resonant-cavity or internal-resonant-cavity configuration to enable both conventional AFM measurements and optical imaging and spectroscopy at the nanoscale.

An apparatus for generating fluorescence comprises a blue LED emitting a light beam, a filter and a fluorescent material. The filter is arranged in front of the light beam emitted by the blue LED, receives the light beam, and converts the light beam into a filtered light beam having wavelengths of 465-505 nm. The fluorescent material is arranged in one side of the filter, which is opposite to the blue LED, to receive the filtered light beam. The fluorescent material is excited by the filtered light beam to emit fluorescence. The filter is applied to control the wavelength and spectral range of the filtered light beam to achieve the best fluorescence exciting efficiency and prevent from the overlap of the wavelength ranges of the filtered light beam and the fluorescence.

A system (100) for time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay detection is disclosed. The system (100) comprises a receptacle (110) with a sample volume adapted for receiving a sample (99) therein; a light source (120) adapted to emit pulsed excitation light (200); illumination optics (130) adapted to collect the pulsed excitation light (200) from the light source (120) and to deliver said pulsed excitation light (200) to the sample volume in the receptacle (110); a detection device (140) adapted for gated detection of fluorescence radiation (210) at least in a detection spectral range; detection optics (150) adapted to collect fluorescence radiation (210) from the receptacle (110) at least in the detection spectral range and deliver said fluorescence radiation (210) to the detection device (140); and an optical filter device (160) configured for the separation of excitation light (200) and detection light (210). The light source (120) is a light emitting diode with a peak intensity emission at a wavelength below 355 nm. The system (100) further comprises a control unit (101) configured to at least control timing of a detection cycle. The detection cycle comprises an excitation pulse emitted by the light emitting diode (120), followed by a detection period for the detection of fluorescence radiation (210) by the detection device (140), wherein the detection period is separated from the excitation pulse by a detection delay. A pulse duration of the excitation pulse is at least 10 μs. According to a further aspect, a method for time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay detection is provided.

A bandpass acoustic wave filter device includes an IDT electrode and a dielectric film disposed on a piezoelectric substrate including a LiNbO₃ layer, and an acoustic wave resonator is defined by the IDT electrode. The acoustic wave resonator utilizes the Rayleigh wave, and a response of an SH wave excited by the acoustic wave resonator is outside a pass band of the acoustic wave filter device.

An endoscope light emitting device (1) is a light emitting device for use in a fluorescence imaging method. The endoscope light emitting device includes: a solid-state light emitting element (2); and a wavelength converter (3) including a first phosphor (4) that emits first wavelength-converted light (7), wherein the first wavelength-converted light has a light component across at least a whole of a wavelength range of 700 nm or more and 800 nm or less. An endoscope (11) includes the endoscope light emitting device. A fluorescence imaging method is a method using the endoscope light emitting device or the endoscope, and includes the steps of: administering a fluorescent drug to a subject; and applying the first wavelength-converted light (7) to the subject with whom the fluorescent drug has made contact.