Abstract: The imaging lens substantially consists of a first lens having a biconvex shape, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power and a convex surface that faces the object side, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, of which at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point, in this order from the object side; and wherein conditional expression (1A): ?0.38<f/f45<?0.01 is satisfied. This conditional expression is related to the focal length f of the entire system and the combined focal length f45 of the fourth lens and the fifth lens.

Abstract: An imaging lens, substantially consisting of six lenses, composed of a first lens having a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a biconcave shape, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, disposed in order from the object side.

Abstract: An imaging lens with five lenses arranged as, in order from the object side, a first lens with a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface directed toward the object side, a second lens with a biconcave shape, a third lens with a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, where an image-side surface of the fifth lens includes a concave surface and at least one inflection point, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied that achieves a high imaging performance from a central angle of view to a peripheral angle of view, while achieving reduction of an entire length of the lens.

Abstract: An imaging lens consists of five lenses consisting of, in order from the object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a shape with a convex surface toward the object side, a second lens having a biconcave shape, a third lens having a biconvex shape, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, having a shape with a concave surface toward the image side, and having at least one inflection point on the image-side surface thereof. The imaging lens satisfies a given condition expression.

Abstract: An imaging lens consists of seven lenses of a first lens that has positive refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis and a convex surface facing an object side in the vicinity of the optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a concave surface facing an image side in the vicinity of the optical axis, and at least one of the surfaces of which includes an inflection point, and both of the surfaces of which are aspherical, which are in this order from the object side. Further, each of the first lens through the seventh lens is a single lens.

Abstract: An imaging lens, substantially consisting of six lenses, composed of a first lens having a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a biconcave shape, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, disposed in order from the object side.

Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists of five lenses consisting of, in order from the object side: a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape with the convex surface toward the object side; a second lens having a biconcave shape; a third lens having a negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape with the convex surface toward the image side; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the fifth lens includes a concave surface and at least one inflection point, wherein a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.

Abstract: The imaging lens substantially consists of a first lens having a biconvex shape, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power and a convex surface that faces the object side, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, of which at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point, in this order from the object side; and wherein conditional expression (1A): ?0.38<f/f45<?0.01 is satisfied. This conditional expression is related to the focal length f of the entire system and the combined focal length f45 of the fourth lens and the fifth lens.

Abstract: An imaging lens substantially includes six lenses, constituted by: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface that faces an object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface that faces the object side; and an aspherical sixth lens having a negative refractive power, the surface of which is concave toward an image side in the vicinity of an optical axis and convex toward the image side at the peripheral portion thereof. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.

Abstract: An imaging lens substantially includes six lenses, constituted by: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface that faces an object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface that faces the object side; and an aspherical sixth lens having a negative refractive power, the surface of which is concave toward an image side in the vicinity of an optical axis and convex toward the image side at the peripheral portion thereof. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.

Abstract: An imaging lens consists of seven lenses of a first lens that has positive refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis and a convex surface facing an object side in the vicinity of the optical axis, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a concave surface facing an image side in the vicinity of the optical axis, and at least one of the surfaces of which includes an inflection point, and both of the surfaces of which are aspherical, which are in this order from the object side. Further, each of the first lens through the seventh lens is a single lens.

Abstract: The spherical aberration of an imaging lens changes from an object side of image-plane base position Zo toward the other side thereof as a distance from optical axis Z1 increases, and formulas 0.02<a/f<0.10 and 0.02<b/f are satisfied. In an imaging apparatus to which the imaging lens is applied, a blur is corrected by performing contrast recovery processing on original image data obtained by imaging. In the formulas, a is the magnitude of spherical aberration from the image-plane base position Zo toward the object side thereof affecting a ray passing through a central part of the pupil of the imaging lens, and b is a sum of a maximum spherical aberration from the image plane base position Zo toward the object side thereof and a maximum spherical aberration from the image plane base position Zo toward the other side thereof, and f is the focal length of the imaging lens.

Abstract: The spherical aberration of an imaging lens changes from an object side of image-plane base position Zo toward the other side thereof as a distance from optical axis Z1 increases, and formulas 0.02<a/f<0.10 and 0.02<b/f are satisfied. In an imaging apparatus to which the imaging lens is applied, a blur is corrected by performing contrast recovery processing on original image data obtained by imaging. In the formulas, a is the magnitude of spherical aberration from the image-plane base position Zo toward the object side thereof affecting a ray passing through a central part of the pupil of the imaging lens, and b is a sum of a maximum spherical aberration from the image plane base position Zo toward the object side thereof and a maximum spherical aberration from the image plane base position Zo toward the other side thereof, and f is the focal length of the imaging lens.

Abstract: A phase correction plate is mounted on an imaging lens. The phase correction plate is structured in such a manner that the phase difference of light that has passed a middle region of the phase correction plate is lower than the phase difference of light that has passed a peripheral region of the phase correction plate, and that in the peripheral region, the phase difference of light that has passed through the phase correction plate increases from the middle-region side of the peripheral region toward the periphery side of the peripheral region.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator performs spatial light modulation of light produced by a light source. An image-side telecentric image foaming optical system forms an image of a two-dimensional pattern of the light, which has been obtained from the spatial lightmodulation performed by the spatial light modulator, on a photosensitive material. At least either one of two pupil-adjacent lenses, which are adjacent to each other with an entrance pupil position in the image forming optical system intervening between the two pupil-adjacent lenses, is constituted such that at least either one of lens surfaces of the pupil-adjacent lens is an aspherical surface.

Abstract: A light beam scanning device includes a light source section, a deflector and a reflection type optical system. The light source section is provided with three laser light sources. These laser light sources utilizes different modulation systems depending on corresponding semiconductor lasers. That is, the red-light laser light source and the blue-light laser light source each utilize a direct modulation system and the green-light laser light source utilizes an external modulation system using an external modulator (AOD). Reflecting mirrors and, the deflector and an arcsine mirror, which form the reflection type optical system, are arranged sequentially along an optical path at the side of the light source section from which light is emitted. Accordingly, laser light emitted from the light source section is guided only by the reflection type optical system to a recording material. As a result, no correction for light beams of different wavelengths is required.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator performs spatial light modulation of light produced by a light source. An image-side telecentric image forming optical system forms an image of a two-dimensional pattern of the light, which has been obtained from the spatial light modulation performed by the spatial light modulator, on a photosensitive material. At least either one of two pupil-adjacent lenses, which are adjacent to each other with an entrance pupil position in the image forming optical system intervening between the two pupil-adjacent lenses, is constituted such that at least either one of lens surfaces of the pupil-adjacent lens is an aspherical surface.

Abstract: Stimulating rays produced by a line light source are linearly irradiated onto an area of a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored, the stimulating rays causing the sheet to emit light in proportion to an amount of energy stored thereon during its exposure to radiation. Light emitted from the exposed linear area of the sheet is received with a line sensor comprising photoelectric conversion devices arrayed along each of a length direction of the linear area of the stimulable phosphor sheet and a direction normal to the length direction. The sheet is moved with respect to the line light source and the line sensor and in a direction different from the length direction of the linear area of the sheet. Operation processing is performed on outputs of the photoelectric conversion devices, which outputs have been obtained at respective positions of movement and correspond to an identical site on the sheet.

Abstract: A light scanning system causes a light spot to scan a surface at a constant speed. The light scanning system includes a light source radiating a light bundle, a deflector which deflects the light bundle, a line image imaging optical system which images the light bundle on a deflecting surface of the deflector as a line image, and a scanning/imaging optical system which images the deflected light bundle on the surface as a light spot. The scanning/imaging optical system consists of a first aspheric mirror which is symmetric with respect to an axis of rotation and is disposed on the light inlet side and a second aspheric mirror which is anamorphic and is disposed on the light outlet side. The first aspheric mirror has a negative power in the light deflecting direction and the second aspheric mirror has a positive power in the light deflecting direction.

Abstract: Stimulating rays produced by a line light source are linearly irradiated onto an area of a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored, the stimulating rays causing the sheet to emit light in proportion to an amount of energy stored thereon during its exposure to radiation. Light emitted from the exposed linear area of the sheet is received with a line sensor comprising photoelectric conversion devices arrayed along each of a length direction of the linear area of the stimulable phosphor sheet and a direction normal to the length direction. The sheet is moved with respect to the line light source and the line sensor and in a direction different from the length direction of the linear area of the sheet. Operation processing is performed on outputs of the photoelectric conversion devices, which outputs have been obtained at respective positions of movement and correspond to an identical site on the sheet.