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 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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.

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: A lithium niobate waveguide having weak phase drift includes a lithium niobate layer, a metal electrode, and a substrate layer. The lithium niobate layer includes a lithium niobate central ridge and lithium niobate extension surfaces extending towards two sides of the lithium niobate central ridge. A metal oxide layer is arranged on the upper surface of the lithium niobate central ridge. The substrate layer is located on the lower surface of the lithium niobate layer and is made of silicon, silicon dioxide, a multilayer material made of silicon and silicon dioxide or a multilayer material made of silicon dioxide, metal, and silicon, so as to further realize the purpose of inhibiting phase drift. Compared with other doped structures or other structures, the structure is simple in manufacturing method, and moreover, a very good phase drift suppression effect is achieved.

Abstract: The zoom lens consists of a first optical system including a lens at a position closest to the magnification side and a second optical system forming an intermediate image in order from the magnification side. The first optical system reforms the intermediate image on a magnification side imaging plane. The second optical system includes a lens group including an aperture stop, having a negative refractive power, and moving during zooming. The zoom lens satisfies a conditional expression: 0.1<f2w/fAp<2.1, where fAp is a focal length of the lens group having the aperture stop and f2w is a focal length of the second optical system at a wide angle end.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a plastic lens element set. The plastic lens element set includes two plastic lens elements and at least one anti-reflective layer. The two plastic lens elements, in order from an object side to an image side along the optical axis are a first plastic lens element and a second plastic lens element. The anti-reflective layer has a nanostructure and is disposed on at least one of an image-side surface of the first plastic lens element and an object-side surface of the second plastic lens element.

Abstract: An optical photographing system includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. Each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the third lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power, and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly is provided, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, sequentially includes: a first lens having refractive power; an autofocus assembly; a second lens having refractive power, and an image-side surface of the second lens being a concave surface; a third lens having refractive power, and an image-side surface of the third lens being a convex surface; a fourth lens having refractive power, an object-side surface of the fourth lens being a concave surface, and an image-side surface of the fourth lens being a convex surface; and at least one subsequent lens having refractive power. A radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the autofocus assembly being variable.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a dual molded optical element, a plurality of imaging lens elements and a light blocking element. The dual molded optical element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective section. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the dual molded optical element, and a plastic material of the light absorbing portion and a plastic material of the light transmitting portion are different colors. The imaging lens elements are disposed in the inner space of the imaging lens assembly. The light blocking element is disposed adjacent to the light transmitting portion of the dual molded optical element.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a sixth lens element from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens element has negative refracting power, the second lens element has negative refracting power and a periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is convex, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is concave, a periphery region of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave. Lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only six lens elements described above. AAG is a sum of five air gaps from the first lens element to the sixth lens element along the optical axis, and EFL is an effective focal length to satisfy AAG/EFL?2.700.

Abstract: An anti-twist structure of voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, an elastic sheet, a magnet, and a yoke member. The lens housing has a margin wall, and the margin wall has a first protrusion and a contact portion. The elastic sheet has a hollowed slot, and the first protrusion pass through the hollowed slot, so that the elastic sheet is disposed on a portion of the margin wall and on the contact portion. The yoke member has an upper wall and a side wall. The side wall is disposed at one side of the upper wall and the side wall extends outward in a direction not parallel to the upper wall. The yoke member surrounds the lens housing, the elastic sheet, and the magnet. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line.