Patent ID: 8284806
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: H01S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for manufacturing a light source, including a semiconductor laser that is energized to emit pump light, a solid-state laser element that generates a fundamental wave based on the pump light, the solid-state laser element having a first reflector that is provided on a surface thereof located toward the semiconductor laser, the first reflector reflecting the fundamental wave, and a wavelength conversion element that emits light with the wavelength of the fundamental wave converted into another wavelength, the apparatus comprising: a first retainer that retains the semiconductor laser; a second retainer that retains the solid-state laser element at a location that is illuminated by the pump light emitted from the semiconductor laser; a second reflector that is provided so as to face the first reflector of the solid-state laser element retained by the second retainer, the second reflector causing the fundamental wave emitted from the solid-state laser element to partially transmit therethrough and causing a rest of the fundamental wave to reflect thereby; a light output measurement device that measures an output of light having passed through the second reflector; a movement controller that causes the first retainer and/or the second retainer to move so that the semiconductor laser and the solid-state laser element are disposed at a relative position where the light output measured with the light output measurement device reaches or exceeds a predetermined value; and a joining device that joins the semiconductor laser and the solid-state laser element together at a relative position where the light output measured using the light output measurement device reaches or exceeds the predetermined value.