Abstract: The invention provides a material surface treatment equipment, which is applied to a material substrate. The material surface treatment equipment includes a surface treatment device and at least one waveguide device. The surface treatment device is used to carry the material substrate to perform a surface treatment process. Each waveguide device is used for introducing electromagnetic waves to the material substrate to assist in performing the surface treatment process. Through the introduction of electromagnetic waves, the surface treatment process of the material substrate is easy to perform and can achieve the strengthening effect.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a stretchable composite electrode and a fabricating method thereof, and particularly relates to a stretchable composite electrode including a silver nanowire layer and a flexible polymer film and a fabricating method thereof.

Abstract: A surface plasmon resonance meter is provided, including a backlight module, a line-slot plate, a parabolic mirror, a linear polarizer, a sensing chip, a prism and a photo detector array. The line-slot plate includes a light outlet. A light beam travels in the backlight module, and leaves the backlight module through the light outlet. The position of the line-slot plate is matched on a predetermined focal point of the parabolic mirror. The light beam is reflected by the parabolic mirror to be a parallel light beam, and travels trough the linear polarizer to the prism. The prism includes a light entering surface, a detection surface and a light exiting surface. The light beam enters the prism through the light entering surface, contacts the sensing chip with total internal reflection, and finally leaves the prism through the light exiting surface to be received by the photo detector array.

Abstract: A surface plasmon resonance meter is provided, including a backlight module, a line-slot plate, a parabolic mirror, a linear polarizer, a sensing chip, a prism and a photo detector array. The line-slot plate includes a light outlet. A light beam travels in the backlight module, and leaves the backlight module through the light outlet. The position of the line-slot plate is matched on a predetermined focal point of the parabolic mirror. The light beam is reflected by the parabolic mirror to be a parallel light beam, and travels trough the linear polarizer to the prism. The prism includes a light entering surface, a detection surface and a light exiting surface. The light beam enters the prism through the light entering surface, contacts the sensing chip with total internal reflection, and finally leaves the prism through the light exiting surface to be received by the photo detector array.

Abstract: A diffraction laser encoder apparatus for positional and movement information measurement of a target made with a diffraction grating. The diffraction laser encoder has a laser light source for generating a source beam. A polarization beam splitter assembly comprises a polarization beam splitter for receiving the source beam for splitting a P-polarization component and an S-polarization component of the source beam into parallel and offset beams. A focusing lens focuses the P-polarization component and the S-polarization component beams onto the target diffraction grating and returning diffracted P-polarization and diffracted S-polarization beams back into the polarization beam splitter for generating a detector beam coaxially containing the diffracted P-polarization and the diffracted S-polarization beams. A detector assembly receives the detector beam for electrical processing and analysis for resolving the positional and movement information.

Abstract: A symmetric or asymmetric multilayer structure based on the technique of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) has been applied for modulation of resonant angle and wavelength. The fabrication of this invention can have nanoscale thin film layers up to several hundreds, while each layer has its own material of a high or low refractive index value, and the total layers in a thickness of tens to hundreds nanometers are grown in this single structure. This invention is intended for optimizing the scanning of mechanism by modulating SPR resonant angle and wavelength, and for developing the prospect of portable instruments.

Abstract: A multi-function opto-electronic detection apparatus for detecting molecular characteristics of a test sample. The appratuses comprises functional mode subsystems including a detecting light source subsystem for generating sampling beams for illuminating the test sample; a manipulation optics subsystem for aligning the sampling beam onto the test sample; a target signal processing subsystem for analyzing target beams emerging from the test sample resulting from the illuminating of the sampling beam; and a sample fixation subsystem for holding the test sample. The detecting light source subsystem, manipulation optics subsystem and target signal processing subsystem are assembled into one of several possible optical sampling setups for the detection characteristics of the test sample. The functional mode setups include at least ellispometer, confocal image scanner, photon tunneling scanning microscope and interferometer.

Abstract: A diffraction laser encoder apparatus for positional and movement information measurement of a target made with a diffraction grating. The diffraction laser encoder has a laser light source for generating a source beam. A polarization beam splitter assembly comprises a polarization beam splitter for receiving the source beam for splitting a P-polarization component and an S-polarization component of the source beam into parallel and offset beams. A focusing lens focuses the P-polarization component and the S-polarization component beams onto the target diffraction grating and returning diffracted P-polarization and diffracted S-polarization beams back into the polarization beam splitter for generating a detector beam coaxially containing the diffracted P-polarization and the diffracted S-polarization beams. A detector assembly receives the detector beam for electrical processing and analysis for resolving the positional and movement information.

Abstract: A multi-function opto-electronic detection apparatus for detecting molecular characteristics of a test sample. The appratuses comprises functional mode subsystems including a detecting light source subsystem for generating sampling beams for illuminating the test sample; a manipulation optics subsystem for aligning the sampling beam onto the test sample; a target signal processing subsystem for analyzing target beams emerging from the test sample resulting from the illuminating of the sampling beam; and a sample fixation subsystem for holding the test sample. The detecting light source subsystem, manipulation optics subsystem and target signal processing subsystem are assembled into one of several possible optical sampling setups for the detection characteristics of the test sample. The functional mode setups include at least ellispometer, confocal image scanner, photon tunneling scanning microscope and interferometer.

Abstract: A polarization splitting backlight module for efficiently converting a non-polarized light beam emitted from the light source into a single polarization state is disclosed. The polarization splitting backlight module of the present invention comprises an under plate with a ridged lower surface, a light source, a special reflection film, a scattering structure, a substrate and a polarization splitting film. The light beam emitted from the light source is introduced into the scattering structure between the under plate and the substrate. After a series of processes, such as scattering, reflection, phase retardation and polarization beam-splitting, the light beam will pass through the polarization splitting film being of a single polarization state such that it could be utilized by electro-optical systems, such as liquid crystal displays. The present invention converts light beams into a single polarization state, and the efficiency thus is higher than that of a conventional backlight module.

Abstract: A light beam polarization converter for converting non-polarized light beams of an illumination source having a plurality of polarization states into a single polarization state is disclosed. The light beams from the bottom converged by the lower surface of the under plate and further parallelized by the upper surface thereof enter the converter. After a series of optical processes of polarization splitting, reflection or total reflection, and phase retardation within the converter, the light beams will pass through the converter as light beams of a single polarization state.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is claimed for measuring the distance between a slider and a transparent disk with sub-nanometer resolution. The flying height is measured by applying ellipsometry. The measurement is done by: providing a sampling light beam with adjustable initial polarization state by phase modulation, and with variable incident angles relative to the air film and reflecting the sampling light off of the specimen at a detection site forming a reflected light beam that is then reflected at the detection site again and then guided to both detectors for detecting the intensity and phase change of the light beam to determine the gap's thickness as well as passing some light to a microscope used for observation of the detecting site on the specimen.

Abstract: A light beam polarization converter converts non-polarized light beams of an illumination source having a plurality of polarization states into a single polarization state. The light beams from the bottom converged by the lower surface of the under plate and further parallelized by the upper surface thereof enter the converter. After a series of optical processes of polarization splitting, reflection or total reflection, and phase retardation within the converter, the light beams will pass through the converter as light beams of a single polarization state.

Abstract: The invention is using the phase information contained in the diffraction light of the grating, to analyze the velocity and the displacement of the object having the grating attached. By using the relative placement of the optical elements, the entire optical scale system has high tolerance to the phase difference that is caused by the grating optical scale and the relative calibration error of the grating optical scale and the laser light head. Due to the light beam is focused on the diffraction grating, the wave-front of the signal light is relatively not impacted by the geometrical characteristics of the diffraction grating, the geometrical characteristics of the diffraction grating includes something like the interval is not even or the surface is bending. The excellent signal visibility can be obtained by applying the linear grating, radial grating, or the cylindrical grating as the grating in the design according to the present invention.

Abstract: A multi-functional opto-electronic system is mainly applied to the real-time metrologies of biomedical or biochemical reactions as well as the in-situ manufacturing measurements of biochips. The configuration of this system is built up by integration of at least four different near-field optical metrological principles, which share a part of common optical path design and allow to turn on several functions such as ellipsometer, Laser Doppler vibrometer or interferometer (LDV/I), surface plasmon resonance (SPR) for amplitude and phase detection, phase shifting interference microscope, photon tunneling microscope, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and imaging microscope by switching few components in the system. With the creation of a novel opto-mechanical design and its associated signal processing methodologies, both the signal detection of the biomedical reactions and biomedical imaging concerned for the future trend in the modern biomedical sciences are achieved with high resolutions.

Abstract: A polarization splitting backlight module for efficiently converting a non-polarized light beam emitted from the light source into a single polarization state is disclosed. The polarization splitting backlight module of the present invention comprises an under plate with a ridged lower surface, a light source, a special reflection film, a scattering structure, a substrate and a polarization splitting film. The light beam emitted from the light source is introduced into the scattering structure between the under plate and the substrate. After a series of processes, such as scattering, reflection, phase retardation and polarization beam-splitting, the light beam will pass through the polarization splitting film being of a single polarization state such that it could be utilized by electro-optical systems, such as liquid crystal displays. The present invention converts light beams into a single polarization state, and the efficiency thus is higher than that of a conventional backlight module.

Abstract: An ellipsometer for measuring the complex refractive index of a sample and thin film thickness according to the invention. The ellipsometer includes a linear polarized light source, a reference analyzer, a polarization analyzer and a light direction controller. The linear polarized light source used to generate a measuring beam for detecting the sample. The phase modulator used to control the phase of the measuring beam thereby to generate a sampling beam. The reference analyzer used to generate a reference beam according to part of the sampling beam thereby to adjust the intensity of the sampling beam. The polarization analyzer used to analyze the phase, polarization and intensity of the sampling beam after the sampling beam is reflected by the sample.

Abstract: An electro-optical display backlight module for generating a light source of a single polarization state, which reduces the optical loss in light beam output, is suitable for mass production, and decreases manufacturing costs, is disclosed. The backlight module is easily integrated with conventional electro-optical display devices and achieves high-quality polarization splitting through suitable designs.

Abstract: A light beam polarization converter for converting non-polarized light beams of an illumination source having a plurality of polarization states into a single polarization state is disclosed. The light beams from the bottom converged by the lower surface of the under plate and further parallelized by the upper surface thereof enter the converter. After a series of optical processes of polarization splitting, reflection or total reflection, and phase retardation within the converter, the light beams will pass through the converter as light beams of a single polarization state.

Abstract: An optical path overlapping type incident angle changeable optical mechanism according to the invention allows an incident light beam to be incident onto a measured range of a sample within a large incident angle range. The optical mechanism includes a reflecting prism reflecting the incident light beam to generate a reflected light beam having an angle of 90° with respect to the incident light beam; a concave parabolic cylindric mirror guiding the reflected light beam coming from the reflecting prism to a measured range of a detect-waiting sample to thereby be further reflected to generate a detect-waiting light beam; a concave cylindric mirror used to make the detect-waiting light beam incident onto/reflected by the reflecting prism so as to overlap with the incident light beam; and a light beam splitting means used to separate the detect-waiting light beam from the incident light beam.