Abstract: A liquid crystal lens cell comprises a pair of flat layers with the liquid crystal lens supported between the layers. One of the layers supports a planar electrode made of ITO. The other electrode, also formed of ITO, is supported in the center of the opposing substrate and projects downwardly toward the center of the liquid crystal layer. A power supply creates a potential difference between the two electrodes and accordingly imposes a non-uniform electric field on the liquid crystal modules which aligns them in which a way as to act as a lens. By varying the voltage between the two electrodes the focal length of the lens may be controlled. A central electrode may be in the form of a beam or of a pointed tip. In other embodiments of the invention an electrode having a central hole may be associated with the central electrode or the planar electrode.

Abstract: An opto-electric hybrid module capable of achieving the reduction in distance between an optical element and a core end portion to improve the efficiency of light coupling therebetween, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The opto-electric hybrid module includes an optical waveguide section, an electric circuit section, and a light-emitting element (7) and a light-receiving element (8) both mounted on the electric circuit section. The optical waveguide section includes an under cladding layer (1), a linear core (2) for an optical path, the core being formed on a surface of the under cladding layer (1), and an over cladding layer (3) formed on the surface of the under cladding layer (1) and covering the core (2). An electric circuit (4) is formed on a surface portion of the under cladding layer (1) except where the core (2) is formed.

Abstract: Optical waveguide fiber that has large effective area and low loss characteristics, such as low attenuation and low bend loss. The optical waveguide fiber includes a dual trench design wherein an annular region closer to the core is preferably doped with at least one downdopant such as fluorine, which annular region is surrounded by another annular region that preferably includes closed, randomly dispersed voids.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first and second substrates which are opposite, and further includes scanning lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and switches, intersection of two adjacent scanning lines and data lines forming a pixel region. The pixel electrodes are disposed in pixel regions. Each pixel electrode crosses one data line and includes a first and second sub-pixel electrodes which are electrically connected to each other; the first and second sub-pixel electrodes are arranged on two sides of the data line; there is a gap between the first and second sub-pixel electrodes, and the data line is configured in the gap. A problem that conventional liquid crystal display panel has a complex manufacture process, leaks light at a dark state and has a low penetrability can be solved, thereby improving yield of the products.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a liquid crystal device, a projector and an optical compensation method of a liquid crystal device. In one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel having a pair of substrates, each of which has an alignment film. A vertically-aligned liquid crystal, which has liquid crystal molecules pretilted by the alignment films, is interposed between the pair of substrates and modulates light. A pair of polarizing films interposes the liquid crystal panel therebetween. A first retardation film is disposed between the pair of polarizing films and includes (i) a first substrate and (ii) a first deposited film maintaining a first refractive anisotropy and being obliquely deposited on the first substrate so that a first optical axis of the first refractive anisotropy is tilted in a direction in which a variation in characteristic of the light due to the pretilted liquid crystal molecules is canceled.

Abstract: An optical compensator handling higher luminance, capable of achieving a higher contrast ratio while suppressing variation of the contrast ratio, and able to achieve higher definition and longer service life, a liquid crystal display system and a projection type liquid crystal display system using this optical compensator, and a production method and an adjustment method of the display systems are provided. The liquid crystal display system has a liquid crystal device optically modulating an emitted light beam by a liquid crystal layer vertically aligning liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric constant anisotropies and having a pretilt in a direction vertical to a main surface of a substrate, a first polarizer arranged on an incident side of the liquid crystal device, a second polarizer arranged on an emission side of the liquid crystal device, and an optical compensator arranged in a light path between the emission side of the first polarizer and the incident side of the second polarizer.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes an incident face, a bottom surface, a main reflective structure and an auxiliary reflective structure. The bottom surface is connected to the incident face. The main reflective structure is disposed on the bottom surface and has a first and a second inclined surface. The auxiliary reflective structure is disposed on the bottom surface and has a third and a fourth inclined surface. The auxiliary reflective structure and the main reflective structure have an interval therebetween, in which the interval ranges between 0.2 micrometer and 0.5 micrometer, and a bottom width of the auxiliary reflective structure on the bottom surface is smaller than a bottom width of the main reflective structure on the bottom surface. A liquid crystal display is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical waveform shaping device (10) of high resolution comprising a branching filter (1) for branching the light beam from a light source into light beams of each frequency, a condensing part (2) for condensing a plurality of light beams branched by the branching filter (1), a polarizing plate (3) for adjusting the polarization planes of the light beams having passed through the condensing part (2), and a spatial light modulator (4) having a phase modulation part and an intensity modulation part where the light beams having passed through the polarizing plate (3) are incident.

Abstract: There is provided an optical device including: a passive core layer in which is formed an optical circuit having a refractive index n2; an active core layer covering at least a portion of the optical circuit, exhibiting an electro-optical effect, and having a refractive index of n1 higher than n2; a lower clad layer over which the passive core layer is formed and having a refractive index n3 lower than n2; an upper clad layer covering the active and passive core layers and having a refractive index n5 lower than n1; a lower electrode disposed below the lower clad layer; and an upper electrode disposed on the upper clad layer, in which the entrance and exit portions of the active core layer are tapered, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The first substrate includes a plurality of first unit regions, and each of the first unit regions includes at least a pixel region. A plurality of first alignment patterns are disposed in each of the pixel regions, wherein a width of the first alignment patterns in at least one first unit region is different from a width of the first alignment patterns in other first unit regions adjacent to the at least one first unit region. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: An optical module includes: an optical semiconductor section including a first lead, a second lead with one end portion opposed to one end portion of the first lead, an optical semiconductor element bonded onto the first lead, and a first molded body in which the optical semiconductor element, the one end portion of the first lead, and the one end portion of the second lead are embedded; and an optical element section including a third lead, a fourth lead with one end portion opposed to one end portion of the third lead, and a second molded body in which the one end portion of the third lead and the one end portion of the fourth lead are embedded and which can change the optical path of at least one of emitted light from the optical semiconductor element and incident light on the optical semiconductor element. The other end portion of the first lead and the other end portion of the second lead protrude from the first molded body in directions opposite to each other.

Abstract: A hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly which permits repair of damaged fibers or copper conductors carried by a hybrid fiber/copper cable without requiring replacement of the entire connector assembly or the cable is disclosed. The hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly disclosed also allows individual hybrid fiber/copper connectors of the assembly to be converted from one gender to a different gender. The hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly disclosed also allows the individual hybrid fiber/copper connectors of the assembly to be converted from being hybrid fiber/copper connectors to being only fiber connectors or only copper connectors.

Abstract: A hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly which permits repair of damaged fibers or copper conductors carried by a hybrid fiber/copper cable without requiring replacement of the entire connector assembly or the cable is disclosed. The hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly disclosed also allows individual hybrid fiber/copper connectors of the assembly to be converted from one gender to a different gender. The hybrid fiber/copper connector assembly disclosed also allows the individual hybrid fiber/copper connectors of the assembly to be converted from being hybrid fiber/copper connectors to being only fiber connectors or only copper connectors.

Abstract: Scanning signal lines (41) and data signal lines (47) are arranged so as to cross each other, and common signal lines (42) and the scanning signal lines (41) are arranged to be parallel to each other. Moreover, a polarlizer (37) provided to an upper substrate (36) and a polarlizer (38) provided to a lower substrate (30) are arranged such that absorption axial directions (37a) and (38a) cross at an angle that is orthogonal. Moreover, the absorption axial directions (37a) and (38a) are arranged so as to be perpendicular to or parallel to directions in which the data signal lines (47), the scanning signal lines (41), and the common signal lines (42) are extended, respectively. This realizes an improved response speed and an increased transmissivity.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) without a color filter, the LCD including: a liquid crystal panel comprising front and rear glass substrates and a plurality of red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels disposed between the front and rear glass substrates corresponding to red, green, and blue lights, respectively; a backlight unit disposed in rear of the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of three-color light supply units supplying the red, green, and blue lights, respectively, and separated from one another so that the plurality of three-color light supply units are compartmentalized; and a lenticular lens array disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit, inducing the red, green, and blue lights irradiated by the three-color light supply units into the red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels included in the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of lenticular lens groups comprising a plurality of lenticular lenses, wherein the plurality of lenti

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first base, a second base, and a sealing member. The first base has a display-area portion including a transparent substrate, a light shielding film formed on a surface of the transparent substrate and having a through hole, a light reflecting film formed on the light shielding film, a color filter formed at least in the through hole of the light shielding film, and a transparent electrode formed on the surface of the transparent substrate. The second base includes a transparent substrate, and a transparent electrode formed on the surface of the transparent substrate. The sealing member is a member for sealing liquid crystal between the first base and the second base.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device is provided that includes a pair of substrates having a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, the liquid crystal layer containing therein liquid crystal molecules of which the alignment state during no-voltage application corresponds to a splay alignment state; and a conductive alignment regulating member which is at least partially disposed in a frame region defining the perimeter of a pixel region on one substrate of the pair of substrates.

Abstract: In an optical modulator, lights that have been branched by an input optical branching section are input via curved waveguides to a plurality of optical modulation sections arranged in parallel on the same substrate. In the optical modulation sections, optical branching sections of an MZ type optical waveguide are arranged shifted to an output side in the longitudinal direction (x direction) of the substrate, corresponding to an arrangement of input ends of signal electrodes. As a result, even if the input ends of the signal electrodes of the respective optical modulation sections are arranged side by side with a predetermined spacing on one side face of the substrate, input light can be applied to the respective optical modulation sections at low loss, without incurring an increase in the drive voltage.

Abstract: A hybrid optical fiber connector tool is capable of cleaving an optical fiber inserted into the connector tool. The connector tool includes an inner housing, an outer housing that is rotatable with respect to the inner housing, and an optical fiber cutting component. The connector tool is useful for connecting and cutting optical fiber in the field.

Abstract: A high efficiency electro-optic dendrimer based technology for nanophotonic integrated circuit devices is presented. In particular, a high power terahertz (THz) source is implemented using an electro-optic dendrimer via electro-optic rectification. Electro-optic rectification provides inherent power scalability, because, pump-THz conversion is not limited either by emission saturation or by heat dissipation. Low dielectric loss and high electro-optic coefficient of dendrimer along with a waveguide structure provides higher output power and tunable THz power generation. A dendrimer fiber array is also disclosed by means of which the input/output signals are connected to multiple components and devices.