Abstract: Provided is a light reduction mechanism which includes a plate-type first beam splitter and a plate-type second beam splitter, in which in a case where the X axis and the Y axis are arbitrary orthogonal coordinate axes in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis of laser beam irradiation optical unit whose origin is in the optical axis, the first beam splitter is arranged with the X axis as a rotation axis and inclined at an angle ? in the range from 30° to 60° inclusive with respect to the plane perpendicular to the optical axis, and the second beam splitter is arranged with the X? axis, which is parallel to the X axis and passes through the optical axis, as a rotation axis, and inclined at an angle ?? with respect to the plane perpendicular to the optical axis.

Abstract: A signal light transmission member includes an AR coated lens, a light transmission part, and an optical fiber. The refractive index of the light transmission part has a specific relationship with the refractive index of a core material of the optical fiber. An anti-reflective coating is formed at an interface portion between the lens of the AR coated lens and the light transmission part.

Abstract: A meta-surface optical element includes a substrate and pillars made of a-Si:H and arranged on a surface of the substrate. The pillars on the surface of the substrate are away from each other at a distance in a range of 300 to 450 nm between the centers thereof, the pillars have heights in a range of 300 to 580 nm, and the pillars have diameters in a range of 100 to 250 nm.

Abstract: There is provided: an optical system including a focus lens group having positive refractive power and configured to move along an optical axis when focusing from an infinite-distance object to a short-distance object, and satisfying predetermined conditional expressions; and an imaging device including the optical system. The focus lens group includes a lens subgroup A, an aperture stop, and a lens subgroup B in order from the object side. The lens subgroup A includes a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the image side. The lens subgroup B includes a negative lens and a positive lens in order from the object side.

Abstract: A zoom lens according to the present invention includes sequentially from an object side: a first lens group having negative refractive power, and a second lens group having positive refractive power, and performs a magnification change operation by changing a gap between the adjacent lens groups. The zoom lens has specific optical characteristics represented by four expressions relating to the second lens group.

Abstract: A lens system includes a lens optical system, a touch display, and at least one processor configured to control a part of a virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display in response to a user's scroll operation on the touch display, and controls the lens optical system such that a state of the lens optical system works with a part of the virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having negative refractive power and a subsequent group in order from an object side to an image side. The subsequent group includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a Gp1 group including one or more lens groups and having positive refractive power as a whole, a Gn1 group including one or more lens groups and having negative refractive power as a whole, a Gp2 group including one or more lens groups and having positive refractive power as a whole, and a Gn2 group including one or more lens groups and having negative refractive power as a whole. An aperture diaphragm is disposed closer to an object side than the Gp2 group, an interval between adjacent lens groups changes at least during one of zooming and focusing, and a predetermined expression is satisfied.

Abstract: An optical system for observing reflected light from a fundus includes: an irradiation unit for irradiating an eye with light exited from a light source; a light-acceptance unit for accepting reflected light reflected on a fundus of the eye; and a polarization control unit for making light irradiated to the eye z-polarization axisymmetric with respect to an optical axis and blocking the z-polarization of reflected light reflected on the eye and directed to the light-acceptance unit.

Abstract: A gas detection device includes a gas detection system configured to image while irradiating, in a dot array shape, infrared light having an absorption wavelength of a gas from a light source, and generates, with a CPU, information on an emphasis image of an image of the gas from image information when irradiating and image information when not irradiating, and a display unit.

Abstract: An imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens including a negative meniscus lens having a convex shape facing the object, a second lens including a positive meniscus lens having a convex shape facing the image, at least one lens including a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens including a positive lens having a convex image side surface, and Expression (1) is satisfied as follows. Further, an imaging apparatus including the imaging lens is provided. 1.2<D2/f??(1) where D2 is a thickness of the second lens on the optical axis, and f is a focal length of the imaging lens.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a light source that irradiates an observation target with excitation light; an imaging part that separately receives short wavelength-side NIR light and SWIR light from the observation target; and an image processing unit that generates a composite image having both a density of a short wavelength-side NIR light image and a definition of an SWIR light image.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a rear group having a positive refractive power as a whole in order from an object side. The zoom lens has specific optical characteristics indicated by two expressions.

Abstract: An optical communication device includes an adjustment device and a light receiving unit. The adjustment device includes a wedge prism, an actuator, a detection unit, and a control unit, and the control unit controls the actuator to reduce a difference between a result of detection by the detection unit and a reference.

Abstract: Provided are a zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power, in which distances between the respective lens groups are changed to change magnification, the first lens group consists of one single lens having spherical surfaces on both sides, the single lens is a positive meniscus lens having a convex shape toward the object side, at a time of magnification change from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens group moves along a path convex toward the image side, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied, and an imaging apparatus including the zoom lens.

Abstract: Adopted is a laser beam irradiation optical unit for forming a spot on an object to be machined and irradiating the object to be machined with a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator to perform laser machining including an energy intensity distribution adjustment mechanism that adjusts an energy intensity distribution of the laser beam at the spot in an irradiation trajectory of the laser beam from the laser oscillator to the object to be machined, in which the energy intensity distribution adjustment mechanism adjusts the energy intensity distribution of the laser beam at the spot so as to be non-uniform.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens and an imaging device with a wide angle of view capable of forming an image of an object near an optical axis with a high resolution while having a small size as a whole. The imaging lens is an imaging lens including a first lens G1 having a convex surface on an object side and having a negative refractive power, a second lens G2 having a concave surface on an object side, a third lens G3, a fourth lens G4, a fifth lens G5, and a sixth lens G6, which are sequentially arranged from the object side, and satisfies a predetermined condition. Further, an imaging device according to the present invention includes the imaging lens.

Abstract: A lens system includes: a lens; an operation terminal separated from the lens, the operation terminal including a touch panel; and a controller that controls the lens in accordance with a gesture command input to the touch panel.

Abstract: A caries detection device includes: a screening optical system that irradiates a tooth with a near-infrared ray from a light source to detect transmitted light through the tooth; and a Raman scattered light detection optical system that irradiates a caries candidate area of the tooth detected from information of the transmitted light with a near-infrared ray from the light source to detect Raman scattered light generated from the caries candidate area.

Abstract: The optical system includes a plurality of lens groups in which an interval between adjacent lens groups changes when focusing, and an aperture stop, and when intervals between an exit pupil of an on-axis ray by the aperture stop and an image plane in an infinite-distance object focusing state, a first short-distance object focusing state in which an imaging magnification is ?1, and a second short-distance object focusing state in which an imaging magnification is ?2 are Pinf, P1, and P2, respectively, the optical system satisfies predetermined conditions. An imaging apparatus includes the optical system and an image sensor.

Abstract: A situation grasping means configured to grasp a situation of a moving body, an optical system mounted on the moving body, and a focusing group configured to change an imaging position of the optical system are provided, and the imaging position is changed to a position calculated from a setting value for setting the imaging position according to a situation of the moving body and a situation of the moving body grasped by the situation grasping means, and the optical system satisfies a predetermined conditional expression. Furthermore, the moving body includes the imaging apparatus.