Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adaptive optics system and an optical device that allow correction of wavefront phase aberration with higher accuracy than before and have a wider correction range than the conventional ones, regardless of the distance between the observation target and the fluctuation layer, and the size of the observation target. An adaptive optics system includes: a wavefront phase modulator that makes aberration correction to incident light and emits the corrected light; and an imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism that adjusts freely within a specimen the position of a surface imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation correction surface formed by the wavefront phase modulator. The imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism adjusts the fluctuation correction surface to be imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation layer existing in the specimen.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adaptive optics system and an optical device that allow correction of wavefront phase aberration with higher accuracy than before and have a wider correction range than the conventional ones, regardless of the distance between the observation target and the fluctuation layer, and the size of the observation target. An adaptive optics system includes: a wavefront phase modulator that makes aberration correction to incident light and emits the corrected light; and an imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism that adjusts freely within a specimen the position of a surface imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation correction surface formed by the wavefront phase modulator. The imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism adjusts the fluctuation correction surface to be imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation layer existing in the specimen.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adaptive optics system and an optical device that allow correction of wavefront phase aberration with higher accuracy than before and have a wider correction range than the conventional ones, regardless of the distance between the observation target and the fluctuation layer, and the size of the observation target. An adaptive optics system includes: a wavefront phase modulator that makes aberration correction to incident light and emits the corrected light; and an imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism that adjusts freely within a specimen the position of a surface imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation correction surface formed by the wavefront phase modulator. The imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism adjusts the fluctuation correction surface to be imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation layer existing in the specimen.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an adaptive optics system and an optical device that allow correction of wavefront phase aberration with higher accuracy than before and have a wider correction range than the conventional ones, regardless of the distance between the observation target and the fluctuation layer, and the size of the observation target. An adaptive optics system includes: a wavefront phase modulator that makes aberration correction to incident light and emits the corrected light; and an imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism that adjusts freely within a specimen the position of a surface imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation correction surface formed by the wavefront phase modulator. The imaging-conjugated position adjustment mechanism adjusts the fluctuation correction surface to be imaging-conjugated with a fluctuation layer existing in the specimen.

Abstract: In a wavefront sensor, an optical wavefront to be measured is split into a first optical path and a second optical path. A wavefront W1 in the first optical path is transmitted through a first compensation member 7, and a wavefront W2 in the second optical path is transmitted through a second compensation member 8. Wavefronts W1 and W2 are mixed together by a semi-transparent mirror 6 with the wavefronts being displaced from each other by a shearing quantity S to form an interference fringe. An optical path difference that occurs between two wavefronts W1? and W2? which reach the interference measurement plane M in a state where the wavefronts are inclined due to the arrival direction of the optical wavefront to be measured is compensated when the wavefronts W1? and W2? are transmitted through the first and second optical path difference compensation members 7 and 8, respectively.

Abstract: In a wavefront sensor, an optical wavefront to be measured that has entered an entrance pupil P is split into a first optical path L1 and a second optical path L2 by a semi-transparent mirror 3. A wavefront W1 traveling in the first optical path L1 is transmitted through a first optical path difference compensation member 7, and a wavefront W2 traveling in the second optical path L2 is transmitted through a second optical path difference compensation member 8. The wavefronts W1 and W2 are mixed together again by a semi-transparent mirror 6 in a state where the wavefronts are displaced from each other by a shearing quantity S to form an interference fringe on an interference measurement plane M. The intensity distribution of the interference fringe is measured by a photodetector 9, and a configuration of the optical wavefront to be measured is measured by a wavefront measurement portion 10.

Abstract: An optical reading apparatus and a multifunction-type image forming apparatus, with a minimized thickness in a cabinet height direction and a housing shaped along an upper shape of discharge tray of the image forming apparatus provided thereunder. The optical reading apparatus comprises: platen glass defined with one end and the other end, on an upper surface of which an original document is placed; an optical reading unit that translates between the both ends on a lower surface of the platen glass, for obtaining image data by irradiating an original document surface with light through the platen glass; a control circuit board connected to the optical reading unit, for processing an electric signal; and a housing wherein a side on the side of the other end is thicker than a side on the side of the one end.

Abstract: A decomposition processing apparatus for PCBs prolongs the staying time of the PCBs in a vertical furnace. The apparatus heats and decomposes the PCBs and includes porous staying plates through which the falling PCBs pass, to delay the progress of the PCBs through the apparatus and thus subject the PCBs to sufficient thermolysis.

Abstract: A decomposition processing apparatus 1 for PCB prolongs a staying time of PCB even in a vertical furnace or the like. In the decomposition processing apparatus 1 for PCB which heats and decomposes supplied PCB 2, staying means 3 which has the affinity to PCB 2 is provided so as to guide PCB 2 and obtain a staying time during which PCB 2 is satisfactorily subjected to thermolysis.

Abstract: An image forming device for forming an image of an original image comprises a device for measuring an error of magnification of an optical system incorporated in the image forming device, and compensating for the size of the image to be formed. Magnification error of the optical device can be compensated for without forming an image on a sheet of paper.