US 7,567,598 B2
Semiconductor laser equipment
Hirofumi Miyajima, Hamamatsu (Japan); and Hirofumi Kan, Hamamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/593,033
PCT Filed Mar. 08, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/003979
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 08, 2008,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/088788, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 22, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. P2004-076942 (JP), filed on Mar. 17, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2008/0247432 A1, Oct. 09, 2008
Int. Cl. H01S 3/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 372—35  [372/34; 372/36] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor laser apparatus, comprising:
a semiconductor laser array;
a heat sink on which said semiconductor laser array is mounted;
a refrigerant including fluorocarbon and flowing inside said heat sink;
a refrigerant supplier for supplying the refrigerant to said heat sink;
an insulating piping connected between said heat sink and said refrigerant supplier, and flowing the refrigerant inside said piping; and
a conductive material arranged in said insulating piping in a grounded state.