Background
In a conventional laser, each laser is packaged with a laser chip, and then a small lens for collimating light emitted from the laser chip is used for packaging to form a laser module. Compared with the traditional LED light source, the laser module has the advantages that the light density is greatly improved, the emission angle of laser beams is small, and the requirements of people are met to a certain extent. However, with the development of technology, higher requirements are put on light sources, such as in the fields of medical treatment, projection, and the like, and light sources with higher brightness and smaller volume are needed to meet new requirements, so that LED light sources have LED chip arrays packaged in the same LED, and compared with a single-chip laser, the LED chip arrays have the problems that the brightness is improved to a certain extent, but due to the characteristics of the LED light sources, such as large optical expansion, the brightness is lost, the brightness of the LEDs is not high, the volume of the LEDs packaged by the LED chip arrays is large, and the like, the technical requirements which are increasingly developed still cannot be met, and even the LED chip arrays cannot be used in the medical field.
Therefore, it is desirable to arrange two laser chips in one laser, but the emergent light of one laser needs two lenses to be collimated into parallel light, which makes the lens installation extremely difficult due to the small laser; if a lens is used for collimation, the emergent light of the laser becomes divergent light after being collimated, so that the utilization rate of the energy of the laser is greatly reduced, and the technical requirements which need to be developed increasingly can not be met.
Therefore, there is a need for a laser correction system that can meet the requirements of high power, small size, and easy manufacturing.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems of low energy, large overall volume, inconvenience in manufacturing and the like of a laser in the prior art.
The invention provides a correction system of a laser, which comprises a laser, a lens and a dimmer; at least two laser chips are arranged in the laser; the lens is positioned on the light path of the laser chip and used for collimating the light of the laser chip to obtain a collimated light beam; the light modulator is located on one side, far away from the laser, of the lens and used for adjusting the straight light beam.
Preferably, the light modulator comprises a group of reflection sheets, and the number of the reflection sheets is equal to that of the laser chips; the reflective sheets are not completely parallel.
Preferably, the reflector plate is used for reflecting the collimated light beams into parallel emergent light or non-parallel emergent light.
Preferably, the light modulator comprises a prism.
Preferably, when 2 or 3 laser chips are provided, the laser chips are linearly distributed, and the prism is a triangular prism.
Preferably, when the number of the laser chips is N +3, the laser chips are distributed at the midpoint of each side of the circle internally tangent to the N +2 polygon and the center of the N +2 polygon; the prism is an N +2 surface body prism, and N +1 surfaces of the N +2 surface body prism are completely the same, wherein N is a positive integer.
Preferably, when N +2 laser chips are provided, the laser chips are distributed at the midpoint of each side of the circle internally tangent to the N +2 polygon; the prism is an N +3 surface body prism, and N +2 surfaces of the N +3 surface body prism are completely the same, wherein N is a positive integer.
Preferably, when the N +3 surface body prism or the N +2 surface body prism is positioned behind the focusing point of the collimated light beam, the vertex of the N +3 surface body prism or the N +2 surface body prism is far away from the lens; and the bottom surface of the N +3 surface body prism is far away from the lens when the N +3 surface body prism or the N +2 surface body prism is positioned in front of the focusing point of the collimated light beam.
The invention also provides a light source system which comprises the laser correction system in any technical scheme.
The invention also provides a projection device which comprises the laser correction system in any technical scheme.
According to the technical scheme, the laser is provided with the plurality of laser chips, the single lens is used for realizing the collimation of the emergent light beams of the plurality of laser chips in the laser, and the collimated light beams of the laser are corrected through the light modulator, so that the small size of the laser, high energy, convenience in manufacturing and the like are realized.
Detailed Description
For the purpose of making the description more clear, it is to be understood that the following detailed description of the present invention is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings.
The present invention proposes a first embodiment, which is described with reference to fig. 1. A laser correction system comprises a laser 1, a lens 2 and a light modulator 3.
(1) At least two laser chips, such as laser chip 11 and laser chip 12 in fig. 1, are disposed in the laser 1. When a plurality of laser chips are included in the laser 1, the arrangement of the laser chips is not particularly limited. The laser chip is arranged in the laser and packaged. Compared with the traditional laser with a single laser chip, the laser with at least two laser chips not only reduces the manufacturing cost, but also saves the space of the laser, and improves the brightness of the single laser. The number of the laser chips is not particularly limited, and a technical scheme of a correction system of a laser with a plurality of laser chips is provided in the subsequent embodiment.
(2) And the lens 2 is arranged on the light path of the laser chip and is used for collimating the laser beams emitted by all the laser chips in the laser to obtain a plurality of collimated beams. At least two laser chips of the laser are packaged by one lens 2, and the scheme enables the packaging of the laser to be more convenient and reduces the packaging difficulty of the laser.
(3) And the light modulator 3 is positioned on the side of the lens 2 far away from the laser 1 and is used for adjusting the straight light beam.
The dimmer 3 can adjust the collimated light beam to a parallel light beam or adjust the collimated light beam to a non-parallel light beam. Specifically, whether the light is parallel or not, the light modulator 3 is set as needed. The position of the light modulator 3 is adjustable, so that the precision of the light modulator 3 for adjusting the collimated light beams is improved to a great extent, and the light modulator can modulate the correction light beams at any time according to the requirements of the collimated light beams so as to meet the requirements of different occasions on the correction light beams.
The light modulator 3 in this embodiment can realize the correction of the light beam of the laser, and the laser that realizes many laser chips can satisfy different demands to improve many laser chips' application, and can improve the ease of use of the laser.
Based on the first embodiment, in conjunction with fig. 2 and 3, the present invention proposes a second embodiment. A laser correction system comprises a laser 1, a lens 2 and a light modulator 3. Wherein, the laser comprises a plurality of laser chips 11, and the light modulator 3 comprises a group of reflection sheets. The emergent light of the laser chip 11 is changed into collimated light beams after passing through the lens 2, each collimated light beam corresponds to one reflector 31, each collimated light beam is respectively corrected to obtain corrected light beams, and the corrected light beams are enabled to propagate according to a preset direction, as shown in fig. 2, the corrected light beams are parallel to each other, and as shown in fig. 3, the corrected light beams propagate according to the preset direction but are not parallel. In order to meet different requirements of the correction light beam, the reflector plate 31 can be adjusted, and according to the technical scheme, the correction of a correction system of the laser can be more accurate, and different corrections can be realized according to different requirements. Of course, the light modulator 3 of the present invention may also be another element, such as a curved surface reflector, for reflecting the collimated light beam to form parallel light emergent light or non-parallel emergent light.
Fig. 3 shows an application of the correction system of the laser in this embodiment, a focusing lens is disposed on one side of the reflector 31, that is, in the propagation direction of the corrected light beam, and when the corrected light beam reaches the focusing lens, the corrected light beam can be focused to a point to reduce spherical aberration, so that the light spot of the emergent light is smaller and the light density is higher by further reducing the light spot.
In this embodiment, adopt reflector plate 31 to adjust the collimated light beam of laser instrument for the correction of light beam is more convenient, and the precision of correcting is higher, can correct the direction of propagation of collimated light beam at any time according to different demands.
Based on the first embodiment, in conjunction with fig. 4 and 5, the present invention proposes a third embodiment. A laser correction system comprises a laser 1, a lens 2 and a light modulator 3. Wherein the laser comprises a plurality of laser chips 11 and the light modulator 3 comprises a polygonal prism 31. The emergent light of the laser chip 11 is changed into collimated light after passing through the lens 2, and a polyhedral prism 31 is arranged in the extending direction of the collimated light and used for correcting the collimated light of a plurality of laser chips of one laser 1 into a correction light beam which is transmitted along the same direction. Preferably, the correction light beam is perpendicular to the light emitting surface of the laser chip, and the technical scheme can enable the correction light beam to be parallel light, so that further processing of subsequent light beams is easily realized, such as: the light homogenizing treatment can make the light beam more uniform after being homogenized. It should be noted that the position of the polygonal prism 31 in this embodiment is adjustable, so that the spot size of the correction beam can be modulated, and the correction system of the laser is easier to use.
The present embodiment provides a specific scheme for the difference in the number of laser chips provided in a single laser. Scheme one, set up two laser chips in the laser instrument, as shown in fig. 1, two bundles of emergent light that laser chip sent reach lens 2 after, after the lens collimation, correspond respectively and become parallel light beam, because two bundles of light beam do not all are in the central point of lens chip, two bundles of collimated light beam after the collimation become the mode of focusing, set up a prism 3 before the focus point of two bundles of collimated light beam, this prism 3 corrects these two bundles of collimated light beam, become and correct the light beam outgoing, should correct the light beam and be parallel light beam. In addition, the prism 3 is a triangular prism, two side surfaces of which are completely the same, and the other cylindrical surface is not particularly limited, that is, the top surface or the bottom surface of the triangular prism is an isosceles triangle. In this embodiment, the prism 3 can be placed in front of the focus of the two corrected beams or behind the focus of the corrected beams. When the prism 3 is placed in front of the focal point of the two corrective light beams, the two corrective light beams enter from two identical side surfaces of the triangular prism and exit from the other side surface, which is perpendicular to the light emitting surface of the laser chip. According to the technical scheme, the size of the laser correction system can be reduced to a certain extent, so that the laser correction system is smaller. When the prism 3 is placed behind the focal point of the two corrective light beams, the two corrective light beams are both incident from the other side surface of the triangular prism and exit from the two identical side surfaces, the other side surface being perpendicular to the light emitting surface of the laser chip. According to the technical scheme, the prism 3 can be installed more conveniently, and the size of the light spot of the correction light beam can be adjusted. In addition, when the number of the laser chips is 3, and the 3 laser chips are linearly distributed in the laser, the prism 3 is also a triangular prism, and the detailed description is not repeated, and a person skilled in the art should know how to implement the scheme according to the above description.
And in the second scheme, at least three laser chips are arranged in the laser, and are distributed at the middle point of the inscribed polygon of the circle, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, a plurality of emergent light beams emitted by the laser reach the lens 2, are collimated by the lens and respectively and correspondingly form a plurality of parallel light beams, and the parallel light beams become the mutually parallel correction light beams 111 to be emitted after the polyhedral prism of the parallel light beams. When the number of the laser chips arranged in the laser is N +2 (N is a positive integer, N is 1, 2, and 3 … …), and the N +2 laser chips are distributed at the midpoint of the inscribed N +2 polygon of the circle, the light modulator is an N +3 surface prism 31, the N +2 outgoing beams emitted by the laser chips are changed into collimated beams of N +2 beams after passing through the lens 2, and the collimated beams are adjusted by the N +3 surface prism to become parallel beams. The N +3 surface prism 31 may be disposed in front of the focus of the collimated light beam, or behind the focus of the collimated light beam 110, when the N +3 surface prism is disposed in front of the focus of the collimated light beam 110, the vertex of the N +3 surface prism 31 faces the light emitting surface of the laser, and when the N +3 surface prism 31 is disposed behind the focus of the collimated light beam, the light emitting surface of the N +3 surface prism is based on the vertex of the N +3 surface prism, which is not described in detail here, and this scheme is similar to the first scheme. Wherein, N +2 of the N +3 surface prism 31 are the same vertex shared by the triangular surfaces, and the bottom surface is N +2 polygon. According to the technical scheme, the laser chip packaging device can achieve the effect that a plurality of laser chips are packaged in one laser, emergent light of the laser can be completely utilized, compared with the prior art, the laser device is greatly improved in energy, simple in structure and simple to install, and can be widely applied to various illumination fields. It is noted that the N +3 chips can also be distributed on the midpoint and the center of the inscribed N +2 polygon of the circle, and the light modulator is an N +3 surface prism.
In the above embodiment, the included angle of the prism 3 is constant, that is, the shape of the prism 3 is fixed when the refractive index of the prism 3 and the refractive index of the environment where the laser is located are constant, the formula of the included angle of the prism 3 when two laser chips are provided in the laser is given below, and as shown in fig. 6, the included angle β of the prism 3 is sin (β -a) ═ N (N)1/N2) Sin β, wherein a ═ N (N)1/N2)*sin(arctan(d/f)),N1Is the refractive index of the prism 3, N2And 2d is the distance between two adjacent laser chips 11, and f is the distance between the two collimated light beam focusing points and the two laser chips 11. In the embodiment, the included angle of the prism can be determined, so that after the correction system of the laser is fixed, the laser is in the same medium and can be directly used without modulation; when the type of medium in which the laser is located changes, only a better prism is needed.
The correction system for the laser in the above embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the light source system and the projection apparatus, that is, both the light source system and the projection apparatus can include the correction system for the laser in any of the above solutions, and the specific structures of the light source system and the projection apparatus are not described in detail herein.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent structures or direct and indirect applications of the contents of the specification and drawings of the present invention in other related technical fields are considered to be included in the scope of the present invention.