Abstract: A display inspection system for inspecting a light beam emitted from a panel with pixels positioned at several focal planes is provided. The display inspection system includes a focus tunable lens adjustable in a focal distance for focusing at the panel, a first sensing unit for receiving the light beam, a reduced aberration optical system arranged between the focus tunable lens and the first sensing unit for focusing at the first sensing unit, and one or more optical elements placed within a back focal length of the reduced aberration optical system. The reduced aberration optical system comprises a first serial cascade lens group of a first aplanatic lens and a first doublet lens for correcting an optical aberration. The first aplanatic lens and the first doublet lens are co-configured that the back focal length is extended in a manner that the light beam is incident to the first sensing unit.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a sixth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is convex, a periphery region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is convex, an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is convex, an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave, the sixth lens element has positive refracting power, and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex. The optical imaging lens has only the above six lens elements with refractive power, and the optical imaging lens satisfies the following conditions: ?3+?4+?5?130.000.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies following conditions: 4.00 f1/f7.00; 10.00R5/d530.00; where f denotes focal length of the optical camera lens; f1 denotes focal length of the first lens; R5 denotes curvature radius of object side surface of the third lens; d5 denotes on-axis thickness of the third lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high performance while obtaining a low TTL.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera lens including six lenses, having good optical characteristics, having a wide angle and having a bright F number. The camera lens includes, from an object side: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies prescribed conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00?f1/f2?10.00; and ?30.00?R3/R4??1.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.

Abstract: An objective includes the first and second groups. The first group includes the first cemented lens with a concave surface facing the object side, the first and second single lenses having positive power, and the second cemented lens with a concave surface facing an image side. The second group includes the third cemented lens with a concave surface facing the object side and a third single lens having positive power. Each of the cemented lenses combines one positive lens with one negative lens. The objective satisfies the following expressions. 0.31?NA<1??(1) 2.2?H/f?3.3??(2) 0<a/b?1.2??(3) Here, NA is a numerical aperture, f is a focal length at e-line, H is a distance from an object surface to a lens surface closest to an image, a is the sum of air-gap distances in the first group, and b is a thickness of a negative lens in the second cemented lens.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.5?f1/f?10, 1.7?n3?2.2, and 0.01?d5/TTL?0.2, Fno?2.06; where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; n3 denotes a refractive index of the third lens, and d5 denotes a thickness on-axis of the third lens, Fno denotes an aperture F number of the camera optical lens, TTL denotes a total optical length of the camera optical lens. The present disclosure can achieve high optical performance while achieving ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having a big aperture.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.

Abstract: A dry microscope objective includes in order starting from the object side a first lens group having a positive power, that includes single lenses, a second lens group that can move along an optical axis, and a third lens group including two concave surfaces that are air-contacting surfaces adjacent to and facing each other. Only one surface is a concave surface from among four surfaces consisting of a first lens surface, a second lens surface, a third lens surface and a fourth lens surface. The objective satisfies 0.66?NA?1 ??(1) 0.2<|?d/r1|<1 ??(2) where NA is a numerical aperture of the objective, ?d is a sum of a lens interval between the first and second lens surfaces and a lens interval between the third and fourth lens surfaces, and r1 is a curvature radius of the concave surface from among the four surfaces.

Abstract: Provided is an eyepiece optical system including at least three lenses disposed in order from an observation object (Ob) along an optical axis. A final lens disposed closest to an eye point (EP) (corresponds to the third lens (L3) in FIG. 1) is fixed when adjusting the diopter, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 2.2<|fe/fa|<6.0??(1) 0.5<|Re2/fa|<5.0??(2) where fe denotes a focal length of the final lens, fa denotes a focal length of the total eyepiece optical system (EL), and Re2 denotes a radius of curvature of the eye point (EP) side lens surface of the final lens. When an optical surface is aspherical, a paraxial radius of curvature is used for calculation.

Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens having a wide angle of field, a high zoom ratio, and high optical performance over the entire zoom range, and being small in size and lightweight. The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive lens unit; a second negative lens unit; a third positive lens unit; a fourth positive lens unit; and at least one rear lens unit, in which: the first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming; the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit are configured to move while changing an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units during zooming; and the third lens unit (U3) is configured to move from the object side toward the image side during focusing from an object at infinity to an object at close distance.

Abstract: A microscope immersion objective having a numerical aperture of NA>1.36 includes a front lens group. The front lens group has a first, object-side optical element having a plane parallel plate and a second optical element having a hyper-hemisphere. The plane parallel plate is wrung together with a planar side of the hyper-hemisphere.

Abstract: A microscope objective comprises in order from an object side, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes a first cemented lens, and at least one positive single lens, the second lens group includes a second cemented lens, and the third lens group includes a first lens component and a second lens component. A positive lens and a meniscus lens are cemented in the first cemented lens. A surface nearest to an image side of the first lens component is a concave surface, and a surface nearest to the object side of the second lens component is a concave surface. The first lens component and the second lens component are disposed such that the both concave surfaces are face-to-face, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 0.5<(n0/n1o)/NAob<0.

Abstract: Spherical aberration is the primary cause of lose of signal while imaging deeper into a sample. Spherical aberration is corrected in the imaging path of a non-descanned detection system (such as a multi-photon microscope). This corrects the illumination spot for artifacts caused by imaging deep into a sample. One exemplary advantage to this instrument is that it allows deeper and brighter imaging.

Abstract: An imaging lens system includes six non-cemented lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has refractive power, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The imaging lens system has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.

Abstract: Provided is an endoscope objective optical system that is constituted of, in order from the object side, a positive first group, an aperture stop, and a positive second group, wherein the first group is constituted of a negative first lens whose surface on the object side is flat and a positive second lens; the second group is constituted of a combined lens formed of a positive third lens and a negative fourth lens; and Conditional Expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied. F31, F32, and f are the focal lengths of the third lens, the fourth lens, and the entire system, respectively; and R3 and R4 are the radii of curvature at the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the second lens, respectively. 1.2<f31/f<1.55 . . . (1), ?2.8<f32/f<?1.98 . . . (2), and 0.38<|R4+R3|/|R4?R3|<0.77 . . . (3).

Abstract: Described is a microscope objective (10, 100, 200) having an objective housing (12) which contains a lens system including a lens unit (60) capable of being moved along the optical axis (O) of the lens system to compensate for the thickness of the coverslip, and further having an adjusting device for adjusting the lens unit (60), said adjusting device including a drive unit (14, 102, 202) and a transmission (42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 62) which is drivable by the drive unit (14, 102, 202) and coupled to the lens unit (60). According to the present invention, the drive unit (14, 102, 202) has a motor (34) and is mounted on the objective housing (12).

Abstract: A high-aperture immersion objective, in particular for confocal applications in fluorescence microscopy and for TIRF applications, having three subsystems of lenses and/or lens groups. The design of the subsystems has made it possible for a relatively large object field of 0.25 mm to be present in the case of a high-resolution numerical aperture of 1.49. Furthermore, improved transparency is possible up to a wavelength of 340 nm.

Abstract: Provided is an optical system for a thermal image microscope. The optical system includes an image forming unit and a relay unit. The image forming unit forms a focus. The relay unit elongates an optical path. Here, the image forming unit includes six lenses. The relay unit includes two lenses. Aspherical surfaces of the lenses are all convex surfaces.

Abstract: An immersion microscope objective includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power for converting the luminous flux from an object into convergent luminous flux, a second lens group having the refractive power lower than that of the first lens group, and a third lens group, and satisfies the following conditional expression where NA indicates the numerical aperture on the object side, and d0 indicates a working distance: 3 mm<NA×d0<8 mm.

Abstract: An endoscope objective lens unit includes a front lens group and a rear lens group with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The front lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the rear lens group includes a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The endoscope objective lens unit satisfies following expressions (1A) to (4): (1A) ?3 <SF ?1; (2) ?3 <Fr/Ff <?1.1; (3) ?1.6 <Ff/f <?0.6; and (4) Ff/f1 <1.6, where SF is a shape factor, Ff is a focal length of the front lens group, Fr is a focal length of the rear lens group, f is a focal length of the entire unit, and f1 is a focal length of the first lens.

Abstract: An immersion microscope objective comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power comprising a cemented lens composed of a plano-convex lens whose plane surface faces the object side and a meniscus lens whose concave surface faces the object side, and at least one single lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power comprising a three-piece cemented lens; and a third lens group having a negative refractive power including a Gaussian type lens structure, wherein the objective satisfies the following conditions when n1, NAob, d0 and ? are a refractive index at a d-line of the single lens having the highest refractive index included in the first lens group, a numerical aperture on the object side of the objective, a working distance of the objective, and a magnification of the objective, respectively. 1.7?n1 0.75?NAob?1.45 0.4?NAob*d0?3 0.03?NAob/??0.1.

Abstract: A tube lens used in combination with an objective of the infinity correction type that enlarges the image of an object includes a first lens group including a cemented lens and having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, and a third lens group including a positive lens and a negative lens and having a positive power as a whole, in this order from the object side.

Abstract: An objective lens includes, in order from an object side, a front group having negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive refractive power, wherein the front group includes, in order from the object side, a first lens which is a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface turned to the object side and a second lens which is a negative lens with a concave surface turned to the object side; the rear group includes, in order from the object side, a positive third lens and a fourth lens made up of a positive lens and a negative lens cemented together, and the objective lens satisfies conditional expression (1) below: ?0.8<f—F/f—R<?0.3 ??(1), where f_F is a focal length of the front group, and f_R is a focal length of the rear group.

Abstract: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate may contain electronic circuitry fabricated on the backplane. The electronic circuitry is placed in electrical communication with the array of interferometric modulators and is configured to control the state of the array of interferometric modulators.

Abstract: An absorptive coating is in contact with an optical beam splitter such that a signal beam and a reference beam incident on the beam splitter from opposite sides are can be combined to produce two interference beams having a phase difference of about ? 2 .

Abstract: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate may contain electronic circuitry fabricated on the backplane. The electronic circuitry is placed in electrical communication with the array of interferometric modulators and is configured to control the state of the array of interferometric modulators.

Abstract: An immersion microscope objective lens of the present invention has: in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power and having a cemented lens of a plano convex lens having a plane facing the object and a meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object, and a single meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object; a second lens group having positive refractive power and having a plurality of cemented lenses; and a third lens group having negative refractive power and having a cemented meniscus lens having a concave surface facing an image, and a cemented meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object. And the following conditional expressions 0.12<d0/f<0.25, 0.04<?Ct(p)??Ct(n)<0.09 and ?0.03<?hg(p)??hg(n)<0.00 are satisfied.

Abstract: An objective lens OL includes, in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power, a diffractive optical element GD forming a diffractive optical surface D thereon, and a third lens group G3 having negative refractive power. The first lens group G1 includes at least one cemented lens and the most object side surface thereof forms a concave surface facing the object. The second lens group G2 includes at least one cemented lens. The third lens group G3 includes at least one cemented negative lens. In the objective lens OL, a principal ray crosses an optical axis between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3, and in the diffractive optical element GD, the diffractive optical surface D is disposed in the vicinity of the position where the principal ray crosses the optical axis.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, first to sixth lens groups respectively having positive, negative, positive, positive, negative, and positive refracting powers. The first lens group includes a reflecting member for bending the optical axis by substantially 90 degrees. The first and third lens groups remain stationary on the optical axis when the zoom lens zooms or focuses. Zooming is performed by moving the second, fourth, and fifth lens groups along the optical axis. Focusing is performed by moving the fourth lens group and/or the fifth lens group along the optical axis. Image shift is performed by moving the sixth lens group in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis. The fourth lens group includes a single positive lens and a single negative lens.

Abstract: An endoscope objective lens includes, in order from an object side, a negative first lens, a first cemented lens, an aperture diaphragm, a positive fourth lens and a second cemented lens. The negative first lens has a concave surface directed to an image side. The first cemented lens is formed by cementing a second lens and a third lens. One of the second and third lenses is positive and. The other is negative. The positive fourth lens includes a flat surface or a surface having a larger absolute value in radius of curvature, directed to the object side. The second cemented lens is formed by cementing a positive fifth lens and a negative sixth lens in order from the object side. The second cemented lens has a positive refractive power as a whole. The endoscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2). f 2 × ? v 5 - v 6 ? ? R A ? × ( Bf + d 6 / n 6 ) > 10 ( 1 ) Bf / f > 2.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a high-aperture optical imaging system, particularly for microscopes, which comprises an objective and a tube lens unit and in which the objective has a magnification of less than or equal to 40× and a numerical aperture of greater than or equal to 1.0 and is chromatically corrected up to the infrared.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an immersion microscope objective. An objective of this kind has an adjusting element, for example, a correction ring, by which it can be adjusted to different immersion media. In an advantageous manner, the objective can also be adjusted to different temperatures of the solutions and different coverslip thicknesses of object vessels by the correction ring.

Abstract: An objective optical system whose outer diameter is reduced, whose overall length is increased, in which chromatic aberrations are well corrected, and which is suitable for in-vivo examination with a high numerical aperture is realized.

Abstract: A zoom lens system which allows a reduction in size. This zoom lens makes two points at different distances have an optically conjugate relationship, and sequentially includes, from a first conjugate point side at a longer distance to a second conjugate point side at a shorter distance, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit, a third lens unit, a fourth lens unit, a fifth lens unit, and a sixth lens unit. A plurality of lens units of the first to sixth lens units move for zooming, and at least one lens unit of the first to sixth lens units has a diffractive optical element.

Abstract: A real image type view finder comprising an objective optical system which has positive refractive power and forms an intermediate image, an image erecting optical system which erects the intermediate image and an eyepiece optical system which leads the intermediate image to an observer's eye, in which the objective optical system comprises a first positive lens unit, a second negative lens unit, a third negative lens unit and a fourth positive lens unit, moves the second lens unit and the third lens unit for a magnification change, has a vari-focal ratio on the order of 4, and has favorable optical performance over an entire zooming region.

Abstract: A low magnification liquid immersion objective lens system uses an immersion liquid having a refractive index for the d-line within a range defined by a condition (1) shown below, and has a magnification &bgr; and a working distance WDL which satisfy the following conditions (2) and (3): 1.34≦ND≦1.80  (1) &bgr;≦15  (2) WDL≦0.35 mm.

Abstract: An objective lens for a microscope of the invention comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens group comprising a meniscus positive lens with a concave surface facing the object; a second lens group including a cemented lens and having a positive refractive power; a third lens group including a cemented lens and having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group comprising a cemented lens; and a fifth lens group comprising a cemented lens.

Abstract: An objective lens includes a first lens unit constructed with a plurality of single lenses, having a negative power as a whole, and a second lens unit constructed with a plurality of single lenses, arranged on the object side of the first lens unit.

Abstract: A microscope objective lens is constructed with fixed lens units having a numerical aperture NA which is 0.6≦NA≦0.8 and a magnification &bgr; which is 40≦&bgr;≦63, to observe a sample placed on a sample holding member and covered with a protective transparent member having a thickness t which is 0.1 mm<t<0.15 mm.

Abstract: A Galileo type stereomicroscope permits an observer to change its eye-level by varying a space between an objective lens and a pair of a focal variable magnification lenses. The Galileo type stereomicroscope satisfies following condition: Z>f0/3, where Z denotes a variable range of the eye-level and f0 denotes a focal length of an objective lens to be used. The objective lens for the Galileo type stereomicroscope keeps imaging quality up to a periphery of an image field while the eye-level is changed.

Abstract: A variable viewing depth endoscope comprises, successively from the object side, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power and a second lens group G2 which has positive refractive power and is movable along the optical axis are arranged. Focusing at the near point side is made possible by moving the second lens group G2 to the object side, and focusing at a far point side is made possible by moving the second lens group G2 to an image side. The composite focal length fN during near point viewing is made shorter than a composite focal length fF of a whole system during far point viewing.

Abstract: A particularly constructed objective lens unit is provided for reflective fluorescence that transmits excitation light well, generates little self-fluorescence, and can correct for various aberrations. The objective lens unit has a front lens group closer to a specimen side than a rear lens group. Among the lens components forming the front lens group, at least the lens components arranged on the specimen side are formed from a prescribed optical material. This optical material has a higher transmissivity for excitation light and generates less fluorescence due to the excitation light than the other lens components forming the objective lens unit. The excitation light, fed into a position path between the front lens group and the rear lens group, is guided through the front lens group to the specimen. An image of the specimen is formed, based on the fluorescence from the specimen, through the front lens group and the rear lens group.

Abstract: A microscope objective that is achromatic, so that deviations in focus do not arise with visible light and ultraviolet light (particularly light in the vicinity of wavelength=266 nm), and which can satisfactorily observe a specimen. The microscope objective is made of at least three types of glass materials, of which one type is barium fluoride.

Abstract: A projection optical system of the present invention has a first lens group G.sub.1 being positive, a second lens group G.sub.2 being negative, a third lens group G.sub.3 being positive, a fourth lens group G.sub.4 being negative, a fifth lens group G.sub.5 being positive, and a sixth lens group G.sub.6 being positive in the named order from the first object toward the second object, in which the second lens group G.sub.2 comprises an intermediate lens group G.sub.2M between a negative front lens L.sub.2F and a negative rear lens L.sub.2R and in which the intermediate lens group G.sub.2M is arranged to comprise at least a first positive lens being positive, a second lens being negative, a third lens being negative, and a fourth lens being negative in the named order from the first object toward the second object. The present invention involves findings of suitable focal length ranges for the first to the sixth lens groups G.sub.1 to G.sub.

Abstract: Objective lenses for endoscopes are made substantially of sapphire. The high refractive index of sapphire results in optical components with shallower curvatures, leading to smaller geometric aberrations, and consequently, fewer components are required to correct for these aberrations. Chromatic aberrations are less severe because of sapphire's low dispersion. The objectives may be either of the landscape or retrofocus type, and are compact with moderate field of view, low f-number, and less distortion than most conventional designs.

Abstract: A high-performance dioptric reduction projection lens and projection exposure apparatus and projection exposure method using same. The projection lens includes six lens groups and has a positive negative positive negative positive refractive power arrangement. The third and fifth lens groups have overall positive refractive power and include at least three lens elements having positive refractive power. The fourth lens group has negative refractive power and includes at least three lens elements having negative refractive power. At least one lens element in either the fourth lens group or the fifth lens group includes an aspheric surface. The projection lens preferably satisfies at least one of a number of design conditions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a microscope objective lens system a part of which is immersed in a liquid to observe a sample present in the liquid. Particularly, this invention provides an apochromat-grade microscope objective lens system which can be machined cheaply and easily by the conventional technology, which is well corrected for chromatic aberration, and which is excellent in flatness of the image plane. This objective lens system has a plane-parallel plate on the most sample side, is constructed without using an embedded lens as used in the conventional objectives, and can take a variety of lens layouts.

Abstract: A projection optical system of the present invention has a first lens group G1 being positive, a second lens group G2 being negative, a third lens group G3 being positive, a fourth lens group G4 being negative, a fifth lens group G5 being positive, and a sixth lens group G6 being positive in the named order from the first object toward the second object, in which the second lens group G2 comprises an intermediate lens group G2M between a negative front lens L2F and a negative rear lens L2R and in which the intermediate lens group G2M is arranged to comprise at least a first positive lens being positive, a second lens being negative, a third lens being negative, and a fourth lens being negative in the named order from the first object toward the second object.