Abstract: Technology for securing a line, such as a fiber optic line, to a structure, such as a utility pole. In one aspect, a clamp is provided. The clamp includes a body, a first nub located at a first position on the body, and a first receptacle located at a second position on the body, wherein the first receptacle is connectable with a second nub that is secured to a pole-mount, and the first nub is connectable with a second receptacle that is secured to an aerial drone.

Abstract: An alignment feature formed in a lens block during manufacturing has a precise spatial relationship to an optical surface of the lens block such that precise alignment of the alignment feature within the lens block ensures precise alignment of the optical surface within the lens block. Precise alignment of the alignment feature within the lens block is readily assessable whereas precise alignment of the optical surface within the lens block is not. A determination is made as to whether the optical surface is aligned within the lens block by determining whether the alignment feature is aligned within the lens block, and if not, the extent of any misalignment. The extent of misalignment may then be used to adjust the manufacturing process to eliminate the alignment error.

Abstract: A lens driver which has a high driving effectiveness and a compact form, and which does not require a precise assembling and a assembling time.

Abstract: An adjustable support assembly for an object to be accurately positioned relative to a base, in particular for a secondary mirror of an optical mirror telescope, has at least one support structure connected to the base and to the object. The support structure has at least two struts extending in a non-parallel manner relative to each other, where each strut has associated therewith a drivable actuator element in such a way that the actuator element applies a force onto the strut that deflects the strut transversely to the longitudinal extension thereof. The support structure may be supported in an articulated manner relative to the base.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mirror blank comprises: providing a primary piece of glass comprising a primary planar surface and a backing piece of glass comprising a backing planar surface; assembling a mirror blank assembly, wherein assembling the mirror blank assembly comprises interposing a plurality of glass splines between the primary glass and the backing glass. Interposing the plurality of glass splines comprises: for each glass spline, respectively abutting first and second opposed surfaces of the glass spline against the primary planar surface of the primary glass and against the backing planar surface of the backing glass. The mirror blank assembly is then heated to fuse the interposed glass splines to the primary glass and the backing glass while the primary glass and the secondary glass remain spaced apart from one another by the interposed glass splines to thereby provide the mirror blank.

Abstract: An imaging lens system includes: in order from an object side, a first lens including a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens including a positive lens having a convex surface facing the object side, a third lens including a negative lens having a concave surface facing an image side, a fourth lens including a positive lens having a convex surface facing the object side, and a fifth lens including a meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the image side, in which: the imaging lens system further includes an aperture stop arranged on the object side or the image side of the second lens, and the lens surface on the image side of the third lens and the lens surface on the object side of the fourth lens are bonded to each other.

Abstract: An inner focus lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit has at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, the second lens unit has at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, the third lens unit has at least one negative lens, the fourth lens unit has at least one positive lens, at the time of focusing on an object at a short distance from an object at infinity, the third lens unit moves to an image side so as to lengthen a distance to the second lens unit and to shorten a distance to the fourth lens unit, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: ?6<f3/f<?1??(1).

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly is disclosed in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power and a convex and meniscus shaped image-side surface; a third lens having a negative refractive power, an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region and being convex and meniscus shaped at a peripheral region, and an object side-surface being concave at the paraxial region; the image-side surface of the third lens having an inflection point. At least one of the surfaces of three lenses is aspheric, f is a focal length of the imaging lens assembly; f1 is a focal length of the first lens and the imaging lens assembly satisfying following condition: 0 < f ? ? 1 f < 1.0 .

Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof.

Abstract: An imaging lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric concave image-side surface, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point.

Abstract: An optical lens includes seven lenses. An first lens has a negative refractive power: an second lens, an third lens, an fifth lens, an sixth lens and an seventh lens have refractive powers respectively, and the fourth lens has a positive refractive power. One of the second lens and the third lens has a positive refractive power, and the other has a negative refractive power. One of the fifth lens and the sixth lens has a positive refractive power and the other has a negative refractive power. An object-side surface of the first lens has a refractive rate R1, an image-side surface of the first lens has a refractive rate R2, and |R2/R1|?0.01.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a photographic optical system which includes a first lens (focal length f1), a second lens (focal length f2), a third lens (focal length f3), a fourth lens (focal length f4), a fifth lens (focal length f5), a sixth lens (focal length f6) and a seventh lens (focal length f7). The photographic optical system disclosed in the present invention by optimizing rationally face shape, distributing focal power, selecting optical material, is designed as a big relative aperture photographic optical system, and can provide the imaging performance in low illumination environment.

Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.

Abstract: A retro-focus type imaging-optical system is disclosed. The imaging-optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group, an aperture stop, and a second lens group. The first lens group includes, in order from the object side, a positive first F lens group and a negative first R lens group. The first F lens group includes a positive meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side. The first R lens group includes a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side and a positive lens. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side, a positive second F lens group and a second R lens group, and the second F lens group includes a positive lens element having a convex meniscus shape on the image side.

Abstract: The wide angle optical system includes in order from a side of an object in front, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a catadioptric optical element, an aperture stop, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and the catadioptric optical element has a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, and the first surface has a first transmitting surface and a first reflecting surface, the second surface has a second transmitting surface and a second reflecting surface, and the third surface has a third transmitting surface, and the third transmitting surface is a side surface of a circular truncated cone, and the following conditional expressions (1), (2), and (3) are satisfied: ?p<?n??(1), |?p|<|?n|??(2), and 90°??k<?/2??(3).

Abstract: A quadric reflector can have an approximately conical shape. The shape can tapers from a wide base to an apex. The apex can include an aperture, a mirror, and a set of one or more optical elements. A mirror can be positioned within an overhang enclosure of the device in a plane approximately parallel to a circular cross section of the conical shape. The mirror can reflect environmental light that is reflected by the quadric reflector into the aperture or reflect light emitting from the aperture onto the quadric reflector. The overhang enclosure can have a substantially conical shape which eliminates secondary reflection resulting from the environmental light reaching the aperture twice. Using the overhang enclosure to absorb the secondary reflection eliminates or minimizes banding.

Abstract: Dual-pupil, dual spectral band wide field-of-view re-imaged refractive optical imaging systems. In one example an optical imaging system includes a dual-band front objective lens group configured to receive electromagnetic radiation over the field-of-view of the optical imaging system, to form a first pupil, and to direct the electromagnetic radiation through the first pupil, the electromagnetic radiation including first and second non-overlapping spectral bands, and the field-of-view spanning at least 45°×45°, and a re-imaging refractive optical sub-system configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation via the first pupil, to form at least one intermediate image plane, and to focus the electromagnetic radiation via at least one second pupil onto at least one final image plane to form a first image from the first spectral band and a second image from the second spectral band. A beam deflector can be positioned proximate the first pupil to expand the field of view.

Abstract: A zoom lens consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power in this order from an object side. The third lens group consists of a 3-1st lens group having positive refractive power and a 3-2nd lens group having negative refractive power in this order from the object side. A hand shake blur is corrected by moving the 3-2nd lens group in a direction perpendicular to optical axis. Magnification is changed by changing distances between the lens groups while the fifth lens group is fixed.

Abstract: A collector transfers EUV illumination light from a radiation source region to illumination optics. Imaging optics of the collector image the radiation source region in a downstream focal region. The imaging optics are embodied so that the radiation source is imaged with at least one first imaging scale by the EUV illumination light, which is emitted with beam angles <20° between the radiation source region and the downstream focal region. The imaging optics are also embodied so that the radiation source is imaged with at least one second imaging scale by the illumination light emitted with beam angles >70°. The two imaging scales for the beam angles <20° on the one hand and >70° on the other hand differ by no more than a factor of 2.5. In addition to a corresponding collector, an illumination system contains field facets transfer optics.

Abstract: A dual light source enhanced integration system is provided. The system comprises: a first light source and a second light source with overlapping spectra; a light integrator configured to integrate light and having a first light entrance face and a second light entrance face; and, a beamsplitter system configured to about equally distribute light from each of the first light source and the second light source to each of the first light entrance face and the second light entrance face, such that the light from each of the first light source and the second light source is about equally combined at each of the first light entrance face and the second light entrance face.

Abstract: Optical lenses and methods for manufacturing optical lenses are disclosed herein. Lenses having a reduced aperture size are also disclosed herein along with methods for making the same. The optical lenses disclosed herein can be made having improved optical properties. The lenses can be used in optical microscopes, including optical microscopes with a shorter optical path relative to conventional optical microscopes.

Abstract: Various imaging apparatuses, methods and their implementation are characterized herein. As may be implemented with one or more embodiments, a phase mask and optics operate to provide characterization of object depth and related rotational mobility of a feature corresponding to the object. In various implementations, the optics include a microscope having an objective and a detection pathway that operate with the phase mask for passing the light from the objective. Circuitry, such as light detector, processor or combination thereof operates with the phase mask and microscope to characterize the depth and rotational mobility, based on detected light passed via the microscope and the phase mask.

Abstract: In-line holography to create images of a specimen, such as one or more particles dispersed in a transparent medium. Analyzing these images with results from light scattering theory yields the particles' sizes with nanometer resolution, their refractive indexes to within one part in a thousand, and their three dimensional positions with nanometer resolution. This procedure can rapidly and directly characterize mechanical, optical and chemical properties of the specimen and its medium.

Abstract: A biological observation apparatus includes a light source that radiates illumination light onto an observation region that includes a biological specimen; a CCD that acquires a macro image of the observation region; a light source that radiates excitation light onto the biological specimen; a micro-image acquisition unit that acquires a micro image of the biological specimen; an identification-information storing unit that stores identification information of the biological specimen; a biological-specimen specifying unit that extracts identification information of the biological specimen by performing image processing on the macro image, and specifies a biological specimen for which the extracted identification information corresponds to the identification information stored in the identification-information storing unit; and a pan controller that moves a capturing range of the micro-image acquisition unit such that the biological specimen is included in the viewing range of the micro image.

Abstract: A microscope device includes an illumination optical system that illuminates a specimen with a light sheet, and a stereo image capturing device that captures images of the specimen in a plurality of different directions in which a resolution based on a triangulation method in a Z direction orthogonal to a direction of one or a plurality of light sheets formed on the specimen by the illumination optical system is less than a thickness in the Z direction of light sheet illumination that comprises the one or the plurality of light sheets.

Abstract: A periscope comprises an object window (4), a first reflector (5), a second reflector (6), a viewing window (7) and a display port for an electronic display (8). The first reflector (5) is arranged to reflect light from the object window (4) towards the second reflector (6). The second reflector (6) is selectively movable between a first position of use in which the second reflector (6) reflects light from the first reflector (5) towards the viewing window (7) and a second position of use in which the second reflector (6) reflects light from the display port towards the viewing window (7). The periscope provides a simple design that allows the user's view to be switched between an electronically generated image, such as night vision, and a purely optical image.

Abstract: A photoelectric composite module including a first connecting member having an outer frame having a tubular shape, and a plurality of contacts provided in an interior of the outer frame, a first printed board on which a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert an electrical signal into an optical signal is mounted, and which is configured to act as a relay between the contacts and the photoelectric conversion element and a second printed board configured to act as a relay between the contacts and an electrical signal cable. The first printed board and the second printed board are three-dimensionally arranged.

Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to arrangements and techniques that provide for using a wavelength specific illumination for illuminating a display, for example an electrowetting display. The electrowetting display comprises a first substrate and a second substrate. A plurality of pixel regions is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The electrowetting display further comprises a first fluid within the pixel regions and on the first substrate. The first fluid comprises one or more dyes and a second fluid is disposed on the first fluid. The second fluid is substantially immiscible with the first fluid. An illumination layer is included between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illumination layer comprises one or more LEDs and at least one of the LEDs produces light at a specific wavelength corresponding to a wavelength of absorption of one of the one or more dyes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a deformable mirror comprising a deformable membrane (2) having a reflecting face (3) and being mounted on a support provided with at least one actuator designed to deform said membrane (2), said actuator comprising at least one movable member (7) fixed to the membrane (2) via an adhesive joint (8) and having a main body (11) located away from the adhesive joint (8), said body being extended by an active part (12) that penetrates said adhesive joint (8) partly or completely in such a way that the adhesive spreads over the concealed face (4), parallel to the reflecting face (3), and adheres at least partly to the side wall (14) of said active part (12), this part (12) forming a tip (32) limiting the bonding footprint on said reflecting face (3). Deformable mirror for adaptive optics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for driving and measuring a MEMS mirror system, the MEMS mirror system having a mirror pivotable around an axis by a driving coil and exhibiting a resonance frequency, having a pulse generator and a measuring unit, each electrically connected to the coil. The pulse generator is preferably configured to feed a modulated pulse signal, comprised of pulses separated by intervals and having a modulation frequency different from the resonance frequency, to the coil. The measuring unit is preferably configured to measure a value of a signal output by the coil during an interval of the modulated pulse signal. In a further aspect of the invention a method is provided for driving and measuring the MEMS mirror system.

Abstract: A device disclosed herein includes a feedback measuring circuit to measure a signal flowing through a movable MEMS mirror. Processing circuitry determines a time at which the signal indicates that a capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror is substantially at a maximum capacitance. The processing circuitry also determines, over a window of time extending from the time at which the signal indicates that the capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror is substantially at the maximum to a given time, a total change in capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror compared to the maximum capacitance. The processor further determines the capacitance at the given time as a function of the total change in capacitance, and determines an opening angle of the movable MEMS mirror as a function of the capacitance at the given time.

Abstract: An optical scanner comprises a light source and an MEMS mirror. The light source emits a light beam. The MEMS mirror has a reflecting surface for reflecting the light beam coming from the light source. the light source is configured in such a manner that the optical axis of the light beam vertically irradiates the reflecting surface of the MEMS mirror at a specific position.

Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a display panel and a lens assembly mounted so that an optical axis of the lens assembly intersects the display panel. The lens assembly includes a lens body having a surface facing the display panel and defining Fresnel prisms. A Fresnel prism of the Fresnel prisms has a first facet angle when viewed in a first cross-section and has a second facet angle when viewed in a second cross-section parallel to the first cross-section. The first facet angle is different than the second facet angle.

Abstract: A support information display method is provided with an acquiring process for acquiring a first image by photographing, via a camera provided in a head mount display, a predetermined part of a substrate processing apparatus as a maintenance object, an estimating process for estimating the support information related to the predetermined part in the first image from information stored in a database, an image creating process for creating a second image by converting the support information estimated in the estimating process into an image, and a displaying process for displaying the second image on the head mount display in order for the operator to visually recognize the support information.

Abstract: An external user interface adapted to control a head-worn computer includes a housing with a mechanical attachment system adapted to secure the housing to a steering wheel of a vehicle, a programmable quick launch software application button mounted on the housing and adapted to activate a pre-designated software application on the head-worn computer, and a button mounted on the housing and adapted to remove all content from being displayed in the head-worn computer when activated.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a camera that outputs live motion images, a recorded motion image output section that outputs recorded motion images produced, a reversed motion image formation section that forms reversed motion images produced by reversing the live motion images, a skin color image extraction section that extracts images having a skin color from the live motion images and reverses the extracted images to form skin color reversed motion images, a motion image display section having a first display section and a second display section, and a display content setting section that sets display contents that are contents to be displayed in the first display section and the second display section, and the display content setting section selects contents to be displayed motion image display section from the live motion images, the recorded motion images, the reversed motion images, and the skin color reversed motion images.

Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: an image forming element which forms an image to be displayed; and an optical element which reflects a light emitted from the image forming element to display a virtual image. The optical element has a concave shape opposite to a traveling direction of the light emitted from the image forming element. The light emitted from the image forming element enters the optical element without being reflected by other optical element. The image forming element is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of viewing the virtual image through the optical element.

Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a display unit including a substrate and display elements, and an optical element. The substrate includes a plurality of display portions and a plurality of light-transmitting portions, and the display elements are on the plurality of display portions of the substrate. The optical element is in an optical path of light that is emitted from the display unit and has through-holes that respectively correspond to the plurality of light-transmitting portions.

Abstract: A contact lens includes a transparent material, a substrate material, a light source, an optical system, and a phase map. The transparent material has an eye-side opposite an external side. The eye-side is curved to fit the human eye. The light source is configured to emit illumination light. The optical system is configured to receive the illumination light from the light source and output the illumination light as an in-phase wavefront. The phase map is configured to adjust a phase of the in-phase wavefront to form an image at a retina-distance in response to being illuminated by the in-phase wavefront. The phase map is pre-recorded with a phase pattern that is included in the image.

Abstract: A strap system for a head-mounted display system includes a rigid bar, semi-rigid segment, and rigid segment. The rigid bar includes a lateral slot and a vertical slot. The rigid segment includes a first end to fixedly couple to the semi-rigid segment and a second end opposite to the first end. The second end of the rigid segment inserts into the lateral slot from the first end of the rigid bar. The strap system further includes one or more compression springs coupled to the rigid segment, and a shuttle to press against the one or more compressions spring so as to slide along the lateral dimension. The strap system also includes an adjustment strap fixedly coupled to the shuttle and extending beyond the second end of the rigid segment and through the vertical slot on the rigid bar to adjustably couple to the outer surface of the rigid bar.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) lens, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The LC lens comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A plurality of electrode groups is disposed on the first substrate; each electrode group comprises a plurality of mutually insulated electrodes; and a transparent partition is disposed between two adjacent electrode groups. The LC lens can avoid LC disclination in the area between two adjacent strip electrode groups and hence avoid the influence of 3D display effect.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards a system for enabling a user to view an image on a surface. The system may include projector(s), sensor, projection surface or screen, and processor. The projectors may project light for an image onto the surface. The sensor may detect light reflected off the surface. The surface may include multiple types of surface elements, such as multiple first elements positioned as border of a display area on the surface to provide feedback regarding the surface and multiple second elements positioned within the border of the display area to reflect the image to the user. The processor may determine characteristics of the border of the display area based on light reflected to the sensor from first elements. And it may modify parameters of the image based on the characteristics of the border of the display area.

Abstract: The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a first common electrode disposed on the first substrate, a groove pattern disposed on the second substrate, where the plurality of electrode patterns face the first substrate, a plurality of electrode patterns disposed on the groove pattern, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where the liquid crystal layer includes a uniformly lying helix type liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal lens may be included in a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a display panel, a three-dimensional display device and manufacturing method thereof. The display panel comprises a plurality of display regions. At least one of the plurality of display regions is configured to display a first display picture, while the rest of the plurality of display regions are configured to display a second display picture. A frame of display picture comprises the first display picture and the second display picture. When the frame of display picture is displayed, the polarization direction of the first display picture is different from that of the second display picture. In the technical solutions provided by the present invention, it is unnecessary to arrange a liquid crystal cell on a display panel, so the production cost is reduced.

Abstract: A reticle for a semiconductor lithography process includes a glass plate having regions with a reduced optical transmission factor. The regions may include arrays of elements comprising defects such as cracks or voids which are formed by laser pulses. The regions may be adjacent to openings in an opaque material at the bottom of the reticle to shield the openings from a portion of the light which illuminates the reticle from the top. As a result, the light which exits the reticle and is used to pattern a substrate has an asymmetric intensity. This allows the substrate to be patterned with an inspection mark which indicates whether a defocus condition exists, and whether there is a positive or negative defocus condition. Related methods use a reticle to form a pattern on a substrate and for adjusting a focus condition using a reticle.

Abstract: Passive dampers (e.g., a viscoelastic material such as a silicon gel) may be applied at one or more locations within an actuator module between a moving component (an optics assembly) and a fixed component (e.g., a cover attached to a base). The passive dampers act to passively dampen the motion of the optics assembly on the XY plane within the actuator module during optical image stabilization (OIS) of the optics assembly when subjected to external excitation or disturbance, and may also provide Z (optical) axis damping and impact protection. Process control and automation manufacturing and assembly methods for an OIS voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module including passive dampers are described, as well as design elements that provide for the integrity and reliability of the passive dampers over the life cycle of the actuator module.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function may include a movable module holding an optical element, a support body including a body part surrounding the movable module, a gimbal mechanism including a movable frame having elasticity and configured to swingably support the movable module between the movable module and the support body, a spring member connected to the movable module and the support body for holding posture of the movable module, and a shake correction drive mechanism configured to swing the movable module. When a natural vibration frequency of the movable frame is “fa”, a natural vibration frequency of the spring member is “fb”, and a vibration frequency band of a movable body on which the support body is mounted is “fw”, the natural vibration frequency “fa” and the natural vibration frequency “fb” are shifted from the vibration frequency band “fw”.

Abstract: A lens driving device includes a lens carrier for maintaining a lens, a base for supporting the lens carrier, an first electromagnetic drive mechanism and an second electromagnetic drive mechanism which are mounted between the lens carrier and the base, and a front side spring component and a back side spring component which are connected with each other through connecting components. One of the front and back side spring components is connected with the lens carrier, the other of which is connected with the base. The lens driving device is difficult to damage when suffering from external force and is capable of playing the auto focus and shaking functions correction stably.

Abstract: A positioning device for a picture stabilizer for the controlled movement of a carrier with respect to a base includes a first coupling element, a second coupling element, a first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit. The first coupling element, by way of a first suspension, is assembled in a movable manner with respect to the base and is movable by a first linear drive. The second coupling element, by way of a second suspension, is assembled in a movable manner with respect to the base and is movable by a second linear drive. The first transmission unit transmits movement of the first coupling element onto the carrier and the second transmission unit transmits movement of the second coupling element onto the carrier. The first coupling element and the second coupling element in each case have a movability with essentially exactly one translatory degree of freedom.

Abstract: A conformable covering comprises an outer portion with rigidity to resist movement on the cornea and an inner portion to contact the cornea and provide an environment for epithelial regeneration. The inner portion of the covering can be configured in many ways so as to conform at least partially to an ablated stromal surface so as to correct vision. The conformable inner portion may have at least some rigidity so as to smooth the epithelium such that the epithelium regenerates rapidly and is guided with the covering so as to form a smooth layer for vision. The inner portion may comprise an amount of rigidity within a range from about 1×10-4 Pa*m3 to about 5×10-4 Pa*m3 so as to deflect and conform at least partially to the ablated cornea and smooth an inner portion of the ablation with an amount of pressure when deflected.