Abstract: The invention generally relates to optical filters that provide regulation and/or enhancement of chromatic and luminous aspects of the color appearance of light to human vision, generally to applications of such optical filters, to therapeutic applications of such optical filters, to industrial and safety applications of such optical filters when incorporated, for example, in radiation-protective eyewear, to methods of designing such optical filters, to methods of manufacturing such optical filters, and to designs and methods of incorporating such optical filters into apparatus including, for example, eyewear and illuminants.

Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes a display element, a first optical member, a second optical member, a third optical member, and an adhesive joints the first optical member and the second optical member. A first optical member includes a first positioning portion that performs a positioning with respect to a second optical member and the second optical member includes a second positioning portion that performs a positioning with respect to the first optical member.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical delay line structure, including an outer housing, an inner housing and a reflection assembly. The outer housing is connected to the inner housing and an optical fiber. The reflection assembly is placed on the inner housing. The inner housing can move axially on an outer housing thread part of the outer housing so as to change the light path between the optical fiber and the reflection component. The reflection assembly includes a mirror holder, a reflection mirror, a plurality of fixing screws and a plurality of adjusting screws. When at least one of the adjusting screws is moved, the reflection mirror will tilt at different angles, thereby changing the path and intensity of light wave.

Abstract: The fabrication of a first waveguide made of stoichiometric silicon nitride, of a second waveguide made of crystalline semiconductor material and of at least one active component optically coupled to the first waveguide via the second waveguide. The method includes: a) the formation of an aperture which passes through an encapsulation layer of the first waveguide and emerges in or on a substrate made of monocrystalline silicon, then b) the deposition by epitaxial growth of a crystalline seeding material inside the aperture until this crystalline seeding material forms a crystalline seed on a top face of the encapsulation layer, then c) a lateral epitaxy, of a crystalline semiconductor material from the crystalline seed formed to form a layer made of crystalline semiconductor material wherein the second waveguide is then produced.

Abstract: An optical sensor system comprising: (a) a light source for at least one optical sensor, the light source comprising at least, (i) an interposer having first and second opposing sides and defining at least one alignment aperture extending from the first opposing side to the second opposing side; (ii) at least one fiber disposed in the at least one alignment aperture, the at least one fiber having a first optical axis; (iii) at least one light emitting component mounted to the second opposing side and having a second optical axis coincident with the first optical axis, the light emitting component configured to emit light, at least a portion of which is coupled with the at least one fiber as coupled light; and (b) the at least one optical sensor optically coupled to the at least one fiber.

Abstract: An optical waveguide system and an electronic device are disclosed. The system comprises: a waveguide; an input coupler coupling a light into the waveguide; and an output coupler, wherein the input coupler includes a right portion and a left portion, wherein the right portion includes stacked first and second polarization volume gratings, the left portion includes stacked third and fourth polarization volume gratings. The first and fourth polarization volume gratings are polarization volume gratings optimized for a right-hand-side field of view of the light, and the third and second polarization volume gratings are polarization volume gratings optimized for a left-hand-side field of view of the light.

Abstract: An ocular optical system for imaging of imaging rays entering an eye of an observer via the ocular optical system from a display screen is provided. A side facing towards the eye is an eye-side, and a side facing towards the display screen is a display-side. The ocular optical system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element from the eye-side to the display-side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element, the second lens element, and the third lens element each include an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The ocular optical system satisfies: 40°??, where ? represents a half apparent field of view, which is one half the field of view of an observer.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens, including a first lens element and a second lens element arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each of the first lens element and the second lens element includes an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is concave, and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is convex.

Abstract: Systems and methods for angle polishing of the end faces of a plurality of optical connectors are provided. Systems are provided that include a connector defining a longitudinal axis, and at least two ferrules mounted with respect to the connector and arranged in a side-by-side orientation. The end faces of the connectors are movable relative to the connector and such movement facilitates lateral orientation of the angle polished end faces of the ferrules relative to the connector when in the mating position. Various mechanisms and methods for facilitating movement of the ferrules relative to the connector are disclosed to achieve the desired lateral polish orientation of the ferrule end faces.

Abstract: Structures including an electro-absorption modulator and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a waveguide core including a first tapered section, a second tapered section, and a longitudinal axis. The first tapered section and the second tapered section are aligned along the longitudinal axis. The structure further comprises a first waveguide taper overlapping the first tapered section of the waveguide core, a second waveguide taper overlapping the second tapered section of the waveguide core, and a multiple-layer structure on the waveguide core between the first waveguide taper and the second waveguide taper.

Abstract: A light guide substrate, including a light coupling-in region with multiple first gratings, a light expansion region with multiple sub light expansion regions, and a light coupling-out region, is provided. Each sub light expansion region includes multiple second gratings. The sub light expansion regions include a first set of sub light expansion regions and a second set of sub light expansion regions. Each second grating in the first set of sub light expansion regions includes a first microstructure and a second microstructure. The light coupling-out region includes multiple third gratings. When an image light enters the light guide substrate from the light coupling-in region through the first gratings, the image light is first transmitted to the light expansion region in the light guide substrate, then transmitted to the light coupling-out region through the second gratings, and then emitted from the light coupling-out region through the third gratings.

Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) system including a lens element supported by a support structure, the lens element having a waveguide with an incoupler configured to receive light from an optical scanner of the HMD. The incoupler is configured with multiple features varying in at least one of height, spacing, angle, or density. The features may be separated into discrete zones along the incoupler such that at least one of height, spacing, angle, or density of the plurality of features is varied over the incoupler and constant within a given zone or the features may be varied continuously across the incoupler.

Abstract: Eyewear that includes a frame supporting an optical element. The frame has a first side and a second side. The eyewear also includes a temple adjacent the first side of the frame. The temple includes a first portion adjacent the frame and a second portion releasably connected to the first portion. The eyewear also includes an electrical connector embedded within the first portion of the temple. The second portion conceals the electrical connector from an exterior of the eyewear when the second portion connects to the first portion in a concealed state, and exposes the electrical connector from the exterior of the eyewear when disconnected from the first portion in an exposed state.

Abstract: A light-guide optical element (LOE) includes a transparent substrate having two parallel major external surfaces for guiding light within the substrate by total internal reflection (TIR). Mutually parallel internal surfaces within the LOE are provided with a structural polarizer which is transparent to light polarized parallel to a primary polarization transmission axis, and is partially or fully reflective to light polarized perpendicular to the primary polarization transmission axis. By suitable orientation of the polarization axis of successive internal surfaces together with the polarization mixing properties of TIR and/or use of birefringent materials, it is possible to achieve the desired proportion of coupling-out of the image illumination from each successive facet.

Abstract: An optical system, a lens module, and a terminal device are provided. The optical system includes a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a refractive power, a third lens with a refractive power, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens with a refractive power. The first lens has an object-side surface which is convex at an optical axis. The third lens has an object-side surface which is concave at the optical axis. The fourth lens has an image-side surface which is convex at the optical axis. The fifth lens has an object-side surface which is concave at the optical axis and an image-side surface which is convex at the optical axis. The optical system satisfies the following expression: 0.25<ftgtl3/ftltl3<0.8.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element. Each of the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element includes at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are made of plastic. The fifth lens element includes a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point. An axial distance is formed between each of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element, and the optical imaging system further comprises a stop.

Abstract: An imaging lens system includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens having a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens, wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the imaging lens system from an object side of the imaging lens system toward an imaging plane of the imaging lens system, and the conditional expression TTL/(2*ImgHT)<0.6 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and 2*ImgHT is a diagonal length of an effective imaging area of the imaging plane.

Abstract: An anti-twist structure of a voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, a first elastic sheet, a second elastic sheet, a magnet, and a yoke member. The lens housing has first margin wall and a second margin wall, and a first protrusion extends from the first margin wall. The yoke member has a first wall, a connection wall, a second wall, and a side wall. The first wall is disposed above the first protrusion, and the second wall is above the first margin wall. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line. When the lens housing deflects to a maximum value of the deflectable angle, the first margin wall abuts against the second wall and/or the first protrusion abuts against the first wall.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and excellently corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a second lens, a third lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens having a concave surface facing the image side and the negative refractive power near the optical axis, wherein an image-side surface of said eighth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis, said sixth lens has positive refractive power near the optical axis, an object-side surface of said seventh lens is a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, and a below conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.15<?d7/?d8<0.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens group. The optical imaging lens group comprises, sequentially along an optical axis 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, a seventh lens and an eighth lens, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens and the eighth lens have refractive powers. At least one lens in the first lens to the eighth lens has a non-rotationally symmetric aspheric surface; a total effective focal length fy of the optical imaging lens group in a Y-axis direction and a total effective focal length fx of the optical imaging lens group in an X-axis direction satisfy: fy/fx<0.8; and an f-number Fnoy of the optical imaging lens group in the Y-axis direction satisfies: Fnoy<2.9.