Abstract: An optical lens assembly is provided. The optical lens assembly includes first, second, third and fourth lens elements having refracting power arranged along an optical axis in a sequence from a light output side to a light input side. The first lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a fourth order from the light input side to the light output side. The second lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a third order from the light input side to the light output side. The third lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a second order from the light input side to the light output side. The fourth lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a first order from the light input side to the light output side.

Abstract: A compound lens assembly and method for making a compound lens assembly useful for deep ultraviolet lithography are described. The compound lens assembly includes a first lens component having an optical surface bonded to an optical surface of a second lens component. The bonding at the interface can be achieved using a hydroxide catalysis bonding technique. The compound lens assembly and process for making same solve problems relating to constringence and/or inherent birefringence known for conventional optical elements used in deep ultraviolet lithography or inspection of wafers or reticles in the DUV.

Abstract: A light source package structure is provided. The light source package structure includes a substrate, an upper electrode layer, a light emitting unit, a photodiode, a surrounding wall, a light permeable element, and a coating layer. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface. The upper electrode layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The light emitting unit and the photodiode both are disposed on the upper electrode layer. The surrounding wall is disposed on the first surface and is arranged to surround the light emitting unit and the photodiode. The light permeable element is disposed on the surrounding wall. The coating layer is disposed inside of the surrounding wall and is coated on a part of the first surface and a part of the upper electrode layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing dosage time in ultraviolet germicidal irradiation systems. A UV-C reflective adhesive film may be configured as sheets, or in a roll that may be cut to a desired size or shape. A user may apply the UV-C reflective adhesive film to a desired surface of an interior room by exposing an adhesive surface to the desired interior surface. A reflective layer of the UV-C reflective adhesive film is configured to improve the reflectance percentage or reflectance pattern of a desired interior surface with respect to incident UV-C or near UV-C light. The improved reflectance properties of the desired surface functions to reflect a greater amount of light back to one or more closed-loop sensors in operation with a UV-C or near UV-C germicidal irradiation system.

Abstract: An optical device including a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) light source and a lens array is provided. The VCSEL light source is configured to emit light with at least one light dot. The lens array is configured to receive light emitting from the VCSEL light source and then project a structured light. The structured light includes a dot pattern having number of light dots. Plural convex lenses are arranged along a first surface of the lens array. The convex lenses are configured to generate the light dots of the dot pattern.

Abstract: A thin film coating for an ophthalmic lens is provided, that comprises alternating layers of high and low index materials. The coating attenuates the transmission of light and has a spectral reflectance curve characterized by a reflectance of at least about 90% in a range from 320 nm to 420 nm, by 50% at 440 nm, by 5% or less at 460 nm, and wherein the spectral reflectance curve is monotonically or strictly decreasing between 420 nm to 460 nm.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly is provided. The optical lens assembly includes first, second, third and fourth lens elements having refracting power arranged along an optical axis in a sequence from a light output side to a light input side. The first lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a fourth order from the light input side to the light output side. The second lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a third order from the light input side to the light output side. The third lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a second order from the light input side to the light output side. The fourth lens element is arranged to be a lens element in a first order from the light input side to the light output side.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly is provided. A plurality of infrared light beams emitted from a structured light generating unit having a plurality of light sources pass through the optical lens assembly to generate a plurality of light beams. A direction facing the structured light generating unit is a light input side, and an opposite side is a light output side. The optical lens assembly includes a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element arranged along an optical axis in a sequence from the light output side to the light input side.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an optical system and an image pickup element. The optical system includes a first refractive surface disposed closest to an object, a first reflection surface, and a second reflection surface. A light receiving surface of the image pickup element is disposed at only one side with respect to the optical axis and at a position closer to the optical axis than an intersection between a straight line connecting an intersection on the first refractive surface and an intersection on an imaginary extension surface of the second reflection surface and an imaginary extension surface of the light receiving surface. Expression 1.5?L2/L1?6.5 is satisfied where L1 is an interval between the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface, and L2 is an interval between the first reflection surface and the light receiving surface.

Abstract: An optical lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is arranged between a magnified side and a minified side. The first lens group includes three lenses. A surface of a second lens facing to the minified side is a convex aspherical surface. The second lens group includes three lenses. Each of the first lens group and the second lens group includes at least one aspherical lens.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical apparatus includes providing a pair of glass wafers. One or more diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are formed on one or more of the glass wafers. A spacer is positioned between the glass wafers so as to define a cavity containing the DOEs, and a hermetic seal that bonds the glass wafers together and seals the cavity is formed.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a spectacle lens including a multilayer film of a vapor deposition film (excluding a metal film and a metal alloy film) directly or indirectly at least on one surface of a lens substrate. The multilayer film includes at least one high refractive index layer and at least one low refractive index layer, the total optical film thickness of the high refractive index layer is ?/4 or more at a wavelength ?=780 nm, and a reflection spectrum measured in a wavelength range of 380 to 2000 nm on a surface having the multilayer film has a maximum reflectance in a wavelength range of 800 to 1350 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side along an optical axis, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4; upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 being varied, a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 being varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group being varied; the third lens group G3 comprising, in order from the object side along the optical axis, a 3a-th lens group G3a having positive refractive power, an aperture S, and a 3b-th lens group G3b having positive refractive power; a lens group having negative refractive power within the 3b-th lens group G3b being used as a vibration reduction lens group and moved so as to include a component i

Abstract: A light source for medical or surgical procedures is provided which can provide at least three different imaging modes. Modular light engines are also provided which may be interchangeable within a light source system for increased imaging capability. Methods of using such light sources and modular light engines are also provided.

Abstract: A projection lens structure includes a first group of lens, an aperture stop and a second group of lend. The aperture stop is arranged at a rear of the first group of lens to form a long-focus lens with a focal length between 30-80 mm and the second group of lens is arranged at a rear of the aperture stop to form a short-focus lens with a focal length between 20-30 mm. With the long-focus lens and the short-focus lens operated correspondingly, the structure of the projection lens is simple and the manufacturing cost is low without affecting the quality of produced images.

Abstract: The present application generally relates to EAA films including at least one triazine-based ultraviolet absorber. The present application also generally relates to retroreflective sheeting including an EAA film including a triazine-based ultraviolet absorber. One embodiments of the present application relates to a film, comprising poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) and a triazine-based UVA. Another embodiment of the present application relates to retroreflective sheeting, comprising: a plurality of cube corner elements; and a body layer adjacent to the cube corner elements, the body layer including poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) and a triazine-based UVA.

Abstract: An optical arrangement includes an optical element (1) and a thermal manipulation device. The optical element has a substrate (2), a coating (3, 9, 5) applied to the substrate (2), and an antireflection coating (3). The coating (3, 9, 5) includes: a reflective multi-layer coating (5b) configured to reflect radiation (4) with a used wavelength (?EUV). The antireflection coating (3) is arranged between the substrate (2) and the reflective multi-layer coating (5b) to suppress reflection of heating radiation (7) with a heating wavelength (?H) that differs from the used wavelength (?EUV). The thermal manipulation device has at least one heating light source (8) to produce heating radiation (7).

Abstract: The invention discloses a six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object-side surface to an image-side surface, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power; a sixth lens with refractive power, and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.

Abstract: A lens assembly includes at least three lens elements. One lens element closest to an imaged object of the lens elements is a first lens element, which is made of an electromagnetic radiation absorbing material.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing wafer-shaped articles includes a rotary chuck adapted to hold a wafer-shaped article of a predetermined diameter thereon. A radiant heating plate faces a wafer-shaped article when positioned on the rotary chuck. The radiant heating plate includes radiant heating elements, but a central region of the radiant heating plate is free of radiant heating elements. The radiant heating plate further includes at least one refraction element that refracts radiation emitted by the radiant heating elements and passed through the at least one refraction element, toward the central region of the radiant heating plate.

Abstract: A lens unit (120) shows longitudinal chromatic aberration and focuses an imaged scene into a first image for the infrared range in a first focal plane and into a second image for the visible range in a second focal plane. An optical element (150) manipulates the modulation transfer function assigned to the first and second images to extend the depth of field. An image processing unit (200) may amplify a modulation transfer function contrast in the first and second images. A focal shift between the focal planes may be compensated for. While in conventional approaches for RGBIR sensors contemporaneously providing both a conventional and an infrared image of the same scene the infrared image is severely out of focus, the present approach provides extended depth of field imaging to rectify the problem of out-of-focus blur for infrared radiation. An imaging system can be realized without any apochromatic lens.

Abstract: Cube polarizers can be designed for substantially equal optical path lengths of a reflected beam and a transmitted beam. For example, d11 of FIG. 1 can define a distance between a plane (face plane2) of the outer face (outer face2) of a second prism 16 and the first edge (first edge1) of the first prism, and d11 can be less than 400 micrometers. As another example, an optical path length differential between a transmitted beam and a reflected beam (|OPLT?OPLR|) can be < 0.5 * t * n p 2 ; where t is a thickness of the substrate between the first surface and the second surface of the substrate and np is an index of refraction of the first prism.

Abstract: A light-microscopic method of localization microscopy for localizing point objects in a sample arranged in an object space includes imaging, by an imaging optical unit having a depth of field range of predetermined axial z-extension along its optical axis in the object space, the sample onto a detector; localizing the point objects in the sample within the depth of field range in that, on the basis of a sample image, lateral x/y-positions of the point objects in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis are ascertained; displacing, in the object space relative to the sample the depth of field range within which the point objects are localized in the object space relative to the sample along the optical axis at least once by a predetermined axial z-travel distance; and imaging, by the imaging optical unit in the event of an axially displaced depth of field range.

Abstract: An optical system of a high-resolution imaging spectrograph intended for deep ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy, including an entrance aperture constituted by a slit, followed by a collimating objective, with a dispersive element located between the collimating objective and the subsequent focusing objective is provided. A multichannel radiation detector is arranged behind the focusing objective. The collimating objective is formed at least by a main mirror, wherein the focussing objective is formed by a set of lenses. The dispersion element is formed at least by one diffraction grating 4 and/or an optical prism.

Abstract: A thin film coating for an ophthalmic lens is provided, that comprises alternating layers of high and low index materials. The coating attenuates the transmission of light and has a spectral reflectance curve characterized by a reflectance of at least about 90% in a range from 320 nm to 420 nm, by 50% at 440 nm, by 5% or less at 460 nm, and wherein the spectral reflectance curve is monotonically or strictly decreasing between 420 nm to 460 nm.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for acquiring IR light and visible light images. A lens may be configured to operate in at least a first configuration and a second configuration. The lens may have a first filter over a first portion of the lens and a second filter over a second portion of the lens. In the first configuration, a third filter may operate with the lens and the second filter to allow visible light from a first object located beyond a predetermined distance from the lens to pass and be focused on a sensor for image acquisition. In the second configuration, a fourth filter may operate with the lens and the first filter to allow IR light from a second object located within the predetermined distance to pass and be focused on the sensor for image acquisition.

Abstract: An optical system particularly suited for non-linear fluorescence collecting includes a front lens system, a rear lens system, and a bulk, dichroic beam splitting component intermediate the front lens system and the rear lens system to direct the fluorescent emission from a target object to a photodetector. A lens housing may have a reflective coating on an interior surface thereof. The objective optical system is particularly advantageous for use in cases where large fields of view and high collection efficiencies are desirable.

Abstract: An optical system a plurality of lenses, arranged within a same optical path, configured to simultaneously pass and focus therethrough short-wave infrared (SWIR) and mid-wave infrared (MWIR) spectral bands to a common focal plane and provide simultaneous correction of monochromatic and chromatic aberrations over the SWIR and MWIR spectral bands is disclosed. Another system and a method are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic systems and coatings comprising a selective light wavelength filter, wherein said selective filter provides improved contrast sensitivity.

Abstract: A lens array comprises a plurality of lenses disposed on a transparent substrate, and a light-shielding film disposed on the transparent substrate around the plurality of lenses, wherein the light-shielding film comprises a cured uv-curable ink containing a thermal acid generator. A method of manufacturing a lens array includes forming a plurality of lenses on a transparent substrate, depositing a uv-curable ink on the transparent substrate around the plurality of lenses, and curing the uv-curable ink to form a light-shielding film disposed on the transparent substrate around the plurality of lenses, wherein the inside of the light-shielding film is heated after the uv-curable ink is cured.

Abstract: The present microscope system has: a microscope, which has a light source, an aperture stop, a condenser lens, and an objective lens; a camera, which has a microlens array and an image pickup element; and an image processing unit, which constitutes a computer. The image processing unit divides a plurality of pixels allocated to each of the microlenses into bright-field image detection regions to be used for detecting bright-field images, and dark-field image detection regions to be used for detecting darkfield images, in accordance with the size of an aperture of the aperture stop. The image processing unit generates bright-field image data of a sample and darkfield image data of the sample.

Abstract: Thickness and group index variations in test strip samples of ultra-low expansion glass are made by extracting the strip samples with front and back faces oriented at an acute skew angle to the axis of the boule. The strip samples are positioned the within an interferometric measurement cavity so that a set of subcavities formed by pairings of each of two reference surfaces together with each of the front and back faces of the strip sample which each subcavity having a different optical path length spacing. The skew angle is sized to avoid diffusion effects of striae present in the boule.

Abstract: A known method for producing synthetic quartz glass comprises: (a) reacting a carbonic silicon compound-containing raw material with oxygen in a reaction zone into SiO2 particles, (b) precipitating the SiO2 particles on a sedimentation area by forming a porous SiO2 soot body containing hydrogen and hydroxyl groups, (c) drying the porous SiO2 soot body, and (d) glazing to the synthetic quartz glass by heating the soot body up to a glazing temperature. In order to facilitate cost-efficient production of quartz glass by means of pyrolyzing or hydrolyzing a carbon-containing silicon compound using a carbon-containing raw material, the invention describes the production of a soot body with a carbon content within the range of 1 ppm by weight to 50 ppm by weight.

Abstract: An imaging lens system and an imaging system that includes the imaging lens system are provided. The imaging lens system includes an aperture stop, a first lens group with positive refractive power, and a second lens group with positive refractive power, arranged in that order from an object side to an image side. The first lens group includes a positive lens L11, and a negative meniscus lens L12 that has a convex surface on the object side. The second lens group includes a negative lens L21 that has a concave surface on the object side, a positive lens L22 and a positive lens L23 each of which has a convex surface on the image side, a negative meniscus lens L24 that has a convex surface on the object side, and a positive lens L25 that has a convex surface on the object side.

Abstract: In an EUV scanned-spot-array lithography system, a modulated array of radiation beams diverging from object spots on an object surface and is projected onto a printing surface via a two-mirror projection system similar to a flat-image, Schwarzschild system. Each beam converges to a diffraction-limited image point on the surface, and the surface is scanned in synchronization with the beam modulation to print a synthesized, high-resolution raster image. The spot-generation optics can be configured to compensate for object field curvature, distortion, and geometric point-imaging aberrations in the projection system, enabling diffraction-limited printing without coherent proximity effects over the full image field. The spot-generation optics can use either micromirrors or transmitting microlenses, and can be diffractive (e.g., phase-Fresnel lenses) or non-diffractive.

Abstract: A system may be provided that comprises a substrate and a selective light wavelength filter that selectively blocks between 5 and 50% of light having a wavelength at or near 400-460 nm. The system may comprise any one of, or some combination of: a window, automotive glass, a light bulb, a flash bulb, fluorescent lighting, LED lighting, instrumentation, a display system, a visual system, a television, or a computer monitor.

Abstract: Projection optical system for forming an image on a substrate and including an illumination relay lens and a projection lens each of which is a catadioptric system. The projection lens may include two portions in optical communication with one another, the first of which is dioptric and the second of which is catadioptric. In a specific case, the projection optical system satisfies 4 < ? ? I ? ? ? T ? < 30 , where ?I and ?T are magnifications of the first portion and the overall projection lens. Optionally, the projection lens may be structured to additionally satisfy 6 < ? ? II ? ? ? T ? < 20 , where ?II is a magnification of the second portion. A digital scanner including such projection optical system and operating with UV light having a spectral bandwidth on the order of 1 picometer. Method for forming an image with such projection optical system.

Abstract: Projection optical system for forming an image on a substrate and including an illumination relay lens and a projection lens each of which is a catadioptric system. The projection lens may include two portions in optical communication with one another, the first of which is dioptric and the second of which is catadioptric. In a specific case, the projection optical system satisfies 4 < ? ? I ? ? ? T ? < 30 , where ?I and ?T are magnifications of the first portion and the overall projection lens. Optionally, the projection lens may be structured to additionally satisfy 6 < ? ? II ? ? ? T ? < 20 , where ?II is a magnification of the second portion. A digital scanner including such projection optical system and operating with UV light having a spectral bandwidth on the order of 1 picometer. Method for forming an image with such projection optical system.

Abstract: A three-mirror anastigmatic with at least one non-rotationally symmetric mirror is disclosed. The at least one non-rotationally symmetric mirror may be an electroformed mirror shell having a non-rotationally symmetric reflective surface formed by a correspondingly shaped mandrel.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lens unit which can create an effective light shield despite the simple process by which the lens unit is produced. A non-transmissive filler (BD) is filled and solidified in the gap between the outer periphery of a light shielding member (SH1) and the outer peripheries of a first lens (L1) and a second lens (L2).

Abstract: A camera module generally provided in a mobile terminal. The camera module includes a lens unit which is configured to accommodate at least one lens. An actuator unit is configured to fix the lens unit, and a base which is fixed by an adhesive to the bottom of the actuator. A printed circuit board (PCB) to which the base is fixed for thereby supplying electric power to the actuator unit. Either a corner of an outer side of the bottom of the actuator unit or a corner of an outer side of the top of the base is tapered.

Abstract: A light module for a biochemical analyzing system includes a halogen light source emitting light beams, which are guided through a first light path and a second light path and then combined to go through a first beam splitter, so as to analyze a biochemical sample. The first light path includes a plurality of reflective mirrors and a first filter lens, and the first filter lens is used to attenuate an orange band light of the halogen light source. The second light path includes a second filter lens, and the second filter lens is used to attenuate the lights of the halogen light source except the ultraviolet light band.

Abstract: A deformable optical lens with a lens membrane having an optically active portion that is configured to be shaped over an air-membrane interface according to a spherical cap and Zernike polynomials is provided. The spherical cap and the Zernike polynomials comprise a Zernike[4,0], (Noll[11]) polynomial and are sufficient to model the deformable optical lens to within approximately 2 micrometers.

Abstract: An optically clear adhesive (22) couples a lens assembly (12) and a display assembly (14) in an mobile electronic device (200). The optically clear adhesive (22) is at least partially cured from UV light (24) provided from a UV light source (26) reflected from a reflective surface (30) coupled to an interior surface (20) of a housing (16) surrounding the lens assembly (12) and display assembly (14). In an embodiment, the reflective surface (30) is a reflective paint (30A) applied to the interior surface (20) of the housing (16). In another embodiment, the housing (16) is insert molded around a reflective insert (30B) that includes the reflective surface (30).

Abstract: An infrared optical lens system including: a first lens which comprises a crystalline material; and a second lens which comprises an amorphous material and is formed by using molding processing, wherein a refractive index of the first lens is greater than that of the second lens, and the first lens and the second lens are disposed in the order from an object to an image.

Abstract: A film element of an EUV-transmitting wavefront correction device is arranged in a beam path and includes a first layer of first layer material having a first complex refractive index n1=(1??1)+i?1, with a first optical layer thickness, which varies locally over the used region in accordance with a first layer thickness profile, and a second layer of second layer material having a second complex refractive index n2=(1??2)+i?2, with a second optical layer thickness, which varies locally over the used region in accordance with a second layer thickness profile. The first and second layer thickness profiles differ. The deviation ?1 of the real part of the first refractive index from 1 is large relative to the absorption coefficient ?1 of the first layer material and the deviation ?2 of the real part of the second refractive index from 1 is small relative to the absorption coefficient ?2 of the second layer material.

Abstract: Catadioptric projection objective (1) for microlithography for imaging an object field (3) in an object plane (5) onto an image field (7) in an image plane (9). The objective includes a first partial objective (11) imaging the object field onto a first real intermediate image (13), a second partial objective (15) imaging the first intermediate image onto a second real intermediate image (17), and a third partial objective (19) imaging the second intermediate image onto the image field. The second partial objective is a catadioptric objective having exactly one concave mirror and having at least one lens (L21, L22). A first folding mirror (23) deflects the radiation from the object plane toward the concave mirror and a second folding mirror (25) deflects the radiation from the concave mirror toward the image plane. At least one surface of a lens (L21, L22) of the second partial objective has an antireflection coating having a reflectivity of less than 0.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure are directed towards safely projecting a diffracted light pattern, such as in an infrared laser-based projection/illumination system. Non-diffracted (zero-order) light is refracted once to diffuse (defocus) the non-diffracted light to an eye safe level. Diffracted (non-zero-order) light is aberrated twice, e.g., once as part of diffraction by a diffracting optical element encoded with a Fresnel lens (which does not aberrate the non-diffracted light), and another time to cancel out the other aberration; the two aberrations may occur in either order. Various alternatives include upstream and downstream positioning of the diffracting optical element relative to a refractive optical element, and/or refraction via positive and negative lenses.

Abstract: A reflective optical element 39 for EUV wavelengths having a layer arrangement on the surface of a substrate, wherein the layer arrangement includes at least one layer subsystem 37 consisting of a periodic sequence of at least one period of individual layers. The period includes two individual layers having different refractive indices in the EUV wavelength range. The substrate has a variation of the density of more than 1% by volume at least along an imaginary surface 30 at a fixed distance of between 0 ?m and 100 ?m from the surface. Also, the substrate is protected against long-term aging or densification by EUV radiation either with a protective layer, with a protective layer subsystem of the layer arrangement, or with a correspondingly densified surface region 35 of the substrate.