Abstract: A lens actuator is disclosed in the present invention. The lens actuator includes a movable unit including a carrier defining an optical axis, a plurality of focusing coils surrounding the carrier and spaced with each other, each wound around an axis perpendicular to the optical axis, fixed on an outer surface of the carrier, a plurality of magnets each opposite to one of the focusing coils in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a holder fixing the magnets; a plurality of shake correction coils each disposed below one of the magnets and opposite to the magnet in the optical axis direction; a base fixing the shake correction coils; and wires connecting the movable unit to the base.

Abstract: An oscillation device includes an oscillator, an oscillation detection unit that detects oscillation of the oscillator and outputs an oscillation detection signal, and a drive unit that generates a drive signal in keeping with the oscillation detection signal and outputs the drive signal to the oscillator. The drive unit includes a phase shift unit that shifts the phase to provide the drive signal as positive feedback to the oscillator. The phase shift unit includes a disturbance generating unit that outputs the periodic signal, a fluctuation unit that causes the amount of phase shift to fluctuate based on the periodic signal, a drive amplitude detection unit that detects the amplitude of the drive signal and outputs a drive amplitude signal, a product detection unit that outputs a detection signal after performing product detection on the drive amplitude signal based on the periodic signal, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the phase-shift amount based on the detection signal.

Abstract: An actuator includes: a movable portion that can oscillate around an oscillation axis; a connection portion that extends from the movable portion and is torsionally deformed in accordance with oscillation of the movable portion; and a support portion that supports the connection portion. The movable portion forms a cross shape in a plan view from a thickness direction of the movable portion.

Abstract: A scan unit printhead of an imaging device having an adjustable mirror mounting. The scan unit includes a housing to which a rotatable minor, one or more light sources and an optical assembly are secured. The scan unit also includes a motor for driving the rotatable mirror, a plurality of fasteners for securing the motor to the housing and a plurality of spacers interposed between a base associated with the motor and the housing. The plurality of spacers resiliently bias the base of the motor away from the housing such that each of the plurality of spacers allows relative adjustment of a space between the base of the motor and the housing during a tightening and loosening operation of at least one of the to plurality of fasteners.

Abstract: Apparatus for uniformizing light amount distribution by shaking line beams along a longitudinal axis direction is provided. The apparatus includes a mirror mount, a mirror, an actuator, and a deformation member. The mirror fixed to the mirror mount and includes a reflective surface. The actuator is disposed at a distance from the mirror mount and configured to repeat expansion and contraction along a first direction. The deformation member includes a plurality of blocks connected to each other by flexible joints and is coupled to the actuator and the mirror mount. The deformation member is configured to change a displacement in the first direction due to operation of the actuator to a displacement in a second direction that crosses the first direction, amplify the changed displacement, and transmit the amplified displacement to the mirror mount.

Abstract: A security element for an object of value has a flat, transparent body with a front side and a back side between which there lies a center plane, a first region configured on the body and a second region configured on the body which encode a motif. The body has in the first region a ground element structure which conveys different color impressions from front and back sides in plan view of the body. The body likewise has the ground element structure in the second region and is in mirrored form relative to the center plane, causing first and second regions to show the motif from both sides in plan view, and the motif to be unrecognizable in transmission view.

Abstract: An off-axial three-mirror optical system with freeform surfaces includes a primary mirror, a secondary mirror, a tertiary mirror, and a detector. The primary mirror is located on an incident light path. The secondary mirror is located on a primary mirror reflecting light path. The tertiary mirror is located on a secondary mirror reflecting light path. The detector is located on a tertiary mirror reflecting light path. Each of the primary mirror, the secondary mirror, and the tertiary mirror is an xy polynomial freeform surface up to the fifth order.

Abstract: An off-axial three-mirror optical system with freeform surfaces includes a primary mirror, a secondary mirror, a tertiary mirror, and an image sensor. The primary mirror is located on an incident light path. The secondary mirror is located on a primary mirror reflecting light path. The tertiary mirror is located on a secondary mirror reflecting light path. The image sensor is located on a tertiary mirror reflecting light path. The primary mirror, the secondary mirror, and the tertiary mirror are all xy polynomial surfaces up to the sixth order. The off-axial three-mirror optical system with freeform surfaces can achieve push-broom image with small F-number and large field angles.

Abstract: The invention provides a driving calibration apparatus of an electrostatic MEMS scanning mirror and a driving calibration method thereof The driving calibration method includes the following steps. Different reference voltages are sequentially set to drive a plane mirror of the electrostatic MEMS scanning mirror to swing. Projection positions on a projected surface corresponding to the reference voltages that the laser beam projects to are determined. A driving lookup table is established according to the reference voltages and the corresponding projection positions. Calibrated driving voltages corresponding to ideal projection positions are determined according to the driving lookup table. The pane mirror is driven to swing according to the calibrated driving voltages.

Abstract: A chromatic converter for altimetry is disclosed which is intended to produce a real image of a predefined observation zone of a sample surface that is representative of the local height of this sample. This chromatic converter comprises: a device for illuminating the sample comprising a source of polychromatic light and arranged to cover all of the observation zone by means of N incident beams defining object points of the sample, an Offner autocollimator comprising a Mangin mirror for introducing axial chromatism into each of the N incident beams before they arrive at the sample surface to be reflected as N respective reflected beams, N filtering holes associated with the N respective reflected beams to convert them into filtered beams of low spectral width, intended to form image spots constituting the real image, and at least one polarization device making it possible to polarize the N incident beams and the N reflected beams.

Abstract: A system having a MEMS variable optical attenuator (VOA) that has an improved optical shutter for regulating the optical power of an optical signal by partially intercepting incident light beams and a negative temperature coefficient component that is electrical connected in series with a voltage source that drives the MEMS variable optical attenuator (VOA) is disclosed.

Abstract: An optical scanner includes: a base portion; a light reflecting portion that reflects light; a connection portion that connects the base portion and the light reflecting portion; and a shaft portion that supports the base portion in a swingable manner, wherein the light reflecting portion is disposed so that a geometrical center of the light reflecting portion is separated from a geometrical center of the base portion in a plan view, and wherein the light reflecting portion includes a center of gravity adjusting portion that performs adjustment so that a distance between the geometrical center of the base portion and a center of gravity of the light reflecting portion in the plan view becomes smaller than a distance between the geometrical center of the light reflecting portion and the geometrical center of the base portion in the plan view.

Abstract: A freeform surface reflective scanning system includes a light source, an aperture, a first freeform surface mirror, and a second freeform surface mirror. The light source is configured to provide a laser. The first freeform surface mirror is located on an aperture side that is away from the light source. The first freeform surface mirror is configured to reflect the laser to form a first reflected light. The second freeform surface mirror is located on a first reflected light path. The second freeform surface mirror is configured to reflect the first reflected light to form a second reflected light. Both the first freeform surface mirror and the second freeform surface mirror are a fourth XY polynomial surface.

Abstract: A scanning display device includes: a light source section including at least one light source configured to emitting coherent light; a light scanning section including: a scan mirror configured to reflect the light originated from the light source section and scan over a screen; and a turning section configured to turn the scan mirror; a depolarizer having outgoing polarized light distribution in which a state of polarization of outgoing light consecutively changes within an element plane, wherein: the depolarizer is placed in an optical path along which the light emitted by the light source section reaches the screen; and the state of polarization of the light is changed, thereby scanning the screen with light that has a polarized light distribution, in which the state of polarization consecutively changes, in a beam diameter.

Abstract: A beam brush includes one lens fixed for receiving a laser beam propagating along a first beam axis, a retroreflector positioned for redirecting the laser beam onto a second beam axis through a change in beam path length, and a second lens transmitting the redirected beam. The retroreflector is rotatable about an offset axis and has its angle of rotation controlled for affecting a change in beam path length. The angle of rotation resulting in the path length change is selected for providing a focus or divergence of the reflected beam transmitted through the second lens. Such a system is useful as a Z-axis focusing device operable an X-Y scanner located downstream the modified beam.

Abstract: A retroreflective member that can improve the visibility further. The retroreflective member includes a reflective layer and transparent microscopic beads 13. The retroreflective member gives a phase difference corresponding to a visible light wavelength to at least a part of incident light and recombines, emphasizes a light component having the visible light wavelength by interference, and returns coherent light having a visible light wavelength depending on the incident angle in the traveling direction of the incident light. The reflective layer includes a light-transmissive interference layer 14, and the interference layer 14 each has an optical layer thickness of 100 to 600 nm so as to generate an interference color having a visible light wavelength depending on the incident angle of light.

Abstract: A display device includes a light source unit that emits a first light with a first wavelength, an optical filter that converts the first light to a second light, and an optical shutter that transmits or reflects the first light or the second light.

Abstract: A light scanner includes: a base part; a shaft part that swingably supports the base part around a first axis; an optical unit including a light transmission part that is supported by the base part and has light transmissivity, and a first light reflection reduction part that is provided on the light transmission part and reduces light reflection, wherein light enters the first light reflection reduction part.

Abstract: A divergence-changing device, comprising a ray source, a substantially telecentric arrangement, having an optical system, which has a first focal point and a first system region and a second system region, and having a ray-deflecting device, which is designed such that the beam of rays from the ray source hits the ray-deflecting device, wherein the main ray would hit/hits the ray-deflecting device at the first focal point or close to the first focal point, and that the ray-deflecting device can feed the beam of rays from the ray source to the first system region at different angles of incidence, wherein the beam of rays imaged by the first system region is deflected onto the second system region by a ray-folding device, wherein the beam of rays is imaged by the second system region such that the beam of rays hits the ray-deflecting device again and leaves the divergence-changing device with a constant position.

Abstract: F-theta lenses, included in scanning lens systems, are arranged on a main scanning plane facing an optical deflector and substantially linearly symmetrically on the main scanning plane with reference to a rotational center of the optical deflector. Each f-theta lens has a no-power portion in the main scanning direction. Synchronization-detecting light passes through the no-power portion of the f-theta lens, thus enabling reduction in color shift due to temperature variation in an image forming apparatus without increasing the cost and complexity in controlling color shift.