Abstract: A vehicle rear view mirror includes a mirror body coupled to a base by a coupler, the coupler includes a bolt engaged to the base and a ball disposed on an upper portion of the bolt, and a shell force-fitted on the ball and embedded within the body such that the body is stably supported in place.

Abstract: A high reflection optical filter is described which comprises a film of a dielectric, inorganic or organic or other suitable material deposited on a suitable optically transparent substrate, the film having between a surface thereof exposed to incident radiation and an interface with the substrate a sinusoidal refractive index profile with selected number of periods and selected phase at the exposed surface in single band configurations, and superimposed multiple sinusoidal refractive index profiles with selected phase alignment of the superimposed profiles at the exposed surface in multi-band configurations.

Abstract: By modifying the exposure sequence of the facets during manufacture of a hologon image writer the visibility of cross scan errors are minimized, thereby reducing exposure error and visible banding. With hologons having a number of facets "n" the general form of the exposure sequence is 1, n, 2, n-1, 3, n-2 . . . .