US 11,867,918 B2
Light source apparatus and laser light source apparatus for flow cytometer
Satoshi Nakao, Yokohama (JP); Masami Hatori, Yokohama (JP); Kenji Ohara, Yokohama (JP); and Isao Masukawa, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA SOC Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA SOC Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/690,716.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-133191 (JP), filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059268 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01); G02B 27/30 (2006.01); G02B 19/00 (2006.01); H01S 5/40 (2006.01); G01N 15/14 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0922 (2013.01) [G02B 19/0009 (2013.01); G02B 19/0057 (2013.01); G02B 27/0025 (2013.01); G02B 27/0972 (2013.01); G02B 27/30 (2013.01); H01S 5/4012 (2013.01); H01S 5/4087 (2013.01); G01N 15/1434 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light source apparatus used for a flow cytometer, which is configured to cause a plurality of particles to flow in a flow cell in such a manner to follow one after another in a flow cell length direction and to irradiate the plurality of particles with a laser beam from a side of a flow thereof, the light source apparatus for irradiating the particles with the laser beam, comprising:
a semiconductor laser that is configured to emit the laser beam;
a collimating lens that is configured to collimate the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser in a spread light state;
a beam conversion unit that is configured to match the flow cell length direction with a slow axis direction of the laser beam collimated by the collimating lens in the flow cell after reducing the beam diameter of the laser beam in a fast axis direction and increasing the beam diameter in the slow axis direction; and
a focusing lens that is configured to focus the laser beam that has passed through the beam conversion unit in the flow cell.