Abstract: Components of articles that include an optical element that imparts structural color to the component are provided. Methods of making the components including the optical element, and methods of using the components such as to make an article of manufacture are provided.

Abstract: Components of articles that include an optical element that imparts structural color to the component are provided. Methods of making the components including the optical element, and methods of using the components such as to make an article of manufacture are provided.

Abstract: A light-filtering film for a screen of a device comprising a polymer substrate. A first absorbing compound combined with the polymer substrate, the first absorbing compound absorbing blue light in a blue notch band having a full-width half-maximum of not greater than about 50 nm. A second absorbing compound combined with the polymer substrate, the second absorbing compound absorbing green light in a green notch, wherein the first absorbing compound comprises an absorption that has a maximum absorbance peak between about 420 nm and about 445 nm, and wherein the second absorbing compound has a maximum absorbance peak between about 540 nm and 610 nm.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for making a reflecting stratiform structure (100), configured so as to reflect the incident radiation coming from an upper side with respect to the reflecting stratiform structure (100), comprising an upper transparent protective coating layer (101) configured in that the upper transparent protective coating layer (101) is applied to the reflecting stratiform structure (100) through a cross-linking process, which is carried out by cross-linking a polymerisable resin, which will form the upper transparent protective coating layer (101), making energy pass through a transparent thermoplastic film (102, 120), preferably made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), so as to cross-link the polymerisable resin.

Abstract: An anti-forgery color conversion film includes a photonic crystal structure whose color is converted by an external stimulus such as a breath. The photonic crystal structure includes a first refractive index layer including a first polymer exhibiting a first refractive index; and a second refractive index layer which is alternately laminated with the first refractive index layer and includes a second polymer exhibiting a second refractive index. A consumer who purchases an article including the color conversion film may easily distinguish the authenticity of the article.

Abstract: There are provided a protective film for display, a production method thereof, and a stretchable display apparatus. The protective film for display comprises: particles of a transparent resin, and a matrix of a transparent elastomer having an elastic modulus lower than that of the transparent resin, wherein the particles of the transparent resin are distributed in the matrix of the transparent elastomer, and when the protective film for display is stretched to reach a critical elongation, a craze occurs in the protective film for display.

Abstract: A phase plate for high precision wavelength extraction can include a planar substrate which has a point spread function engineered profile formed of a tessellation of regions. The point spread function engineered profile transforms a point spread function of a light source to form a wavelength dependent geometric pattern. The geometric pattern can also preserve spatial location information of the light source. Such a phase plate permits extracting three-dimensional position and the wavelength of a point emitter.

Abstract: A galvanometer mirror according to the present invention comprises: a transparent substrate; a laser beam reflection layer arranged on one surface side of the substrate and causing reflection of a laser beam having a predetermined wavelength; and a machining point beam reflection layer arranged on the other surface side of the substrate and having higher reflectivity for a beam having a wavelength except the predetermined wavelength than the laser beam reflection layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a thermocompensated and coloured coil spring including the steps of forming a first layer of silicon oxide on at least one face of the core and on at least one other face of the core, the first layer having a thickness equal to a fraction of the thickness required for achieving thermal compensation, removing the first layer from at least one face of the core, forming a second layer of silicon oxide on at least one face of the core and on at least one other face of the core, the second layer having a thickness equal to the remaining fraction of the thickness required for achieving thermal compensation which is lower than or equal to 1 ?m for giving at least one face of the core a colour as a result of the interference effect.

Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate and a plurality of filters. The plurality of filters are disposed over the substrate. Each of the filters includes a support body, a filter layer, and a centrosymmetric spacer. The support body has a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface. The filter layer is on the first side surface. The spacer is attached to the first side surface by a second adhesive layer on the first side surface. The centrosymmetric spacer is attached to the filter layer, at least a peripheral portion of the filter layer is free from being covered by the centrosymmetric spacer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cover glass and a glass laminate which are reduced in warpage, and have excellent scratch resistance, low reflecting properties and excellent optical properties. According to the present invention, a cover glass and a glass laminate which are reduced in glass warpage, retain the effect of scratch resistance, and have low reflecting properties and excellent optical properties can be provided by alternately superposing a film including a high-refractive-index material and a film including a low-refractive-index material, in given amounts.

Abstract: A color mixing light system comprises a pyramidal mirror assembly comprising three or more mirrors constructed and arranged in a pyramid structure and three or more color light sources. The pyramidal mirror assembly divides the light beams from the color light sources so that a first portion is reflected by the mirrors and a second portion extends beyond the mirrors to collectively form a multicolor pattern comprising plurality of overlapping color regions on a surface.

Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate; first through third subpixel electrodes which are disposed on the first substrate to neighbor each other; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a first wavelength conversion pattern at least partially overlapping the first subpixel electrode and a second wavelength conversion pattern at least partially overlapping the second subpixel electrode; a first light transmission pattern at least partially overlapping the third subpixel electrode and a second light transmission pattern disposed between the first wavelength conversion pattern and the second wavelength conversion pattern; and a low refractive layer which has a lower refractive index than the first and second wavelength conversion patterns.

Abstract: A sliding member for vehicular suspension includes a wear resistant layer having appropriate mechanical strength and high designability on its outer peripheral sliding face and a method for producing the same. On an outer peripheral sliding face of the sliding member for vehicular suspension, a colored wear resistant layer formed by an ion plating method and having a film thickness of 0.75 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less is included; and in the wear resistant layer, a dark blue titanium oxide layer, a titanium intermediate layer, and a colored titanium oxide layer are laminated in this order from the inner peripheral side toward the outer peripheral side.

Abstract: A display device is provided with a laminated wiring including a low-resistance conductive film, a low-reflection film mainly containing Al and functioning as a reflection preventing film, and a cap film which are sequentially laminated on a transparent substrate, and an insulting film formed so as to cover the laminated wiring.

Abstract: An optical laminate includes a wavelength selective reflective element which is provided with a reflection layer selectively reflecting light in a specific reflection wavelength region, and an absolute phase adjustment layer which is provided on at least one surface side of the wavelength selective reflective element and has optical isotropy, and the absolute phase adjustment layer has an in-plane distribution of at least one of a refractive index or a film thickness, and thus has an in-plane distribution of an optical path length in a film thickness direction.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to optical filters that provide regulation and/or enhancement of chromatic and luminous aspects of the color appearance of light to human vision, generally to applications of such optical filters, to therapeutic applications of such optical filters, to industrial and safety applications of such optical filters when incorporated, for example, in radiation-protective eyewear, to methods of designing such optical filters, to methods of manufacturing such optical filters, and to designs and methods of incorporating such optical filters into apparatus including, for example, eyewear and illuminants.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed comprising an optical filter array including an array of optical filter elements; wherein each optical filter element has opposing mutually parallel principal faces connected by sidewalls including at least one pair of opposing trapezoidal sidewalls and at least one pair of opposing sidewalls that are not mutually parallel; and wherein the opposing mutually parallel principal faces of the filter elements collectively define optical entrance and exit apertures of the optical filter array and include interference filters. Further disclosed is a method of illuminating such a filter array.

Abstract: An optical filter may reduce the frequency and/or severity of photophobic responses or for modulating circadian cycles by controlling light exposure to cells in the human eye in certain wavelengths, such as 480 nm and 590 nm, and a visual spectral response of the human eye. The optical filter may disrupt the isomerization of melanopsin in the human eye reducing the availability of the active isoform, whereas the attenuation of light weighted across the action potential spectrum of the active isoform attenuates the phototransduction cascade leading to photophobic responses. Embodiments of an optical filter are described. In one embodiment an optical filter may be configured to transmit less than a first amount of light in certain wavelengths, and to transmit more than a second amount of light weighted across the visual spectral response. Methods of use and methods of manufacturing optical filters are also described.

Abstract: A multilayer polymeric reflector is provided which comprises: a) a plurality of first optical layers, each first optical layer comprising a polyester having terephthalate comonomer units and ethylene glycol comonomer units, the polyester having a glass transition temperature, where each first optical layer is oriented, and b) a plurality of second optical layers disposed in a repeating sequence with the plurality of first optical layers, each second optical layer comprising a blend of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), where the blend has a glass transition temperature less than the glass transition temperature of the polyester comprising the first optical layers, and where the amount of PVDF in the PMMA/PVDF blend is greater than and not equal to about 40% and not more than about 65%. Articles comprising the multilayer polymeric reflector are also provided.

Abstract: Provided are electromagnetic wave reflectors and optical devices including the same. An electromagnetic wave reflector may include a plurality of layers which have an aperiodic structure and/or thickness. The plurality of layers may satisfy a condition of spatial coherence with respect to electromagnetic waves. The electromagnetic wave reflector may include a plurality of first material layers including a first material having a first refractive index and a plurality of second material layers including a second material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. At least two of the plurality of first material layers may have different thicknesses. At least two of the plurality of second material layers may have different thicknesses. At least one of the plurality of first material layers and at least one of the plurality of second material layers may have different thicknesses.

Abstract: A organic electroluminescence device includes: a plurality of pixels each including an organic layer and a second electrode in this order on a first electrode having light reflectivity, and each configured to emit light of one wavelength out of two or more different wavelengths, the organic layer including an organic electroluminescence layer; and a black matrix layer provided on light emission side of the second electrode, and having first apertures for the respective pixels. The black matrix layer has inclined surfaces inside the respective first apertures, and inclination angles of the inclined surfaces are set, based on emission wavelengths of the pixels.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-wavelength transmission apparatus including a wavelength divider to divide an optical signal by wavelength and output wavelength-divided optical signals to different positions, the optical signal being received from an optical circulator, a first cylindrical lens to diverge the wavelength-divided optical signals along an X axis and a Y axis and allow the wavelength-divided optical signals to be promoted in a Z-direction, a second cylindrical lens to diverge optical signals output from the first cylindrical lens along the X axis and the Y axis and allow the output optical signals to be promoted in the Z-direction, and a reflector to reflect optical signals output from the second cylindrical lens toward the second cylindrical lens, the first cylindrical lens being identical in shape to the second cylindrical lens and rotated by 90° in an Y-axial direction based on the second cylindrical lens.

Abstract: An optical element includes an optical surface having a multilayer film. The multilayer film comprises a stack that includes a first film having a first refractive index for a used wavelength and a second film having a second refractive index for the used wavelength smaller than the first refractive index. Outermost layers of the stack are configured by the first films. A film configuration of the stack has symmetry along with a stack direction. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Abstract: In one embodiment, each of the output/input ports of each one of a plurality of optical splitters is connected to one of a plurality of optical switches by means of optical fibers without any fusion splicing in a majority of the optical fibers, and each of the input/output ports of each one of the switches is connected to one of the optical splitters by means of the optical fibers without any fusion splicing in a majority of the optical fibers. Each of the output/input ports of each one of the optical splitters may be directly connected to the ferrule and one of the input/output ports of one of the switches by the optical fibers. The optical splitters may be implemented in at least one planar lightwave circuit (PLC) chip. Optionally, at least one fiber holder defining a plurality of channels therein may be used to hold the optical fibers each of which is aligned with a corresponding output/input port of one of the optical splitters.

Abstract: A glass substrate provided with a coating film, including a glass substrate and a coating film containing at least one TiO2 layer having a refractive index of at least 2.20 at a wavelength of 632 nm, formed by low temperature plasma CVD method on the glass substrate, and a method for producing a glass substrate provided with a coating film, which includes forming a TiO2 layer on a glass substrate by low temperature plasma CVD method using a film-forming material containing at least one member selected from an alkoxide type titanium material, an amide type titanium material and a halide type titanium material, at a plasma power density of at least 55 kW/m at a film-forming rate of from 15 to 200 nm·m/min.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate. The first substrate includes a first common electrode and a dielectric layer. The second substrate includes a second common electrode and a pixel electrode. The dielectric layer includes at least two dielectric sub-layers in a region corresponding to each pixel unit. Dielectric constants of the at least two dielectric sub-layer are different from each other.

Abstract: A mold for manufacturing an optical element is provided with a base material, and a recessing and protruding layer formed on a surface of the base material. The recessing and protruding structure of the recessing and protruding layer having a plurality of areas continuously arranged in a positional relationship in which the central point of seven adjacent protrusions is an intersection point of diagonal lines of six vertices of a regular hexagon, and the areas, shapes, and crystal orientations of the plurality of areas are random.

Abstract: A light beam measurement device includes: a polarization measurement unit including a first measurement beam splitter provided on an optical path of a laser beam and configured to measure a polarization state of the laser beam having been partially reflected by the first measurement beam splitter; a beam profile measurement unit including a second measurement beam splitter provided on the optical path of the laser beam and configured to measure a beam profile of the laser beam having been partially reflected by the second measurement beam splitter; and a laser beam-directional stability measurement unit configured to measure a stability in a traveling direction of the laser beam, while the first measurement beam splitter and the second measurement beam splitter are made of a material containing CaF2.

Abstract: An optical device and an optic transceiver device are provided. The optical device includes a light splitting surface. The optical device further includes a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to each other and parallel to each other. The light splitting surface separately intersects the first surface and the second surface. An angle between the light splitting surface and the first surface is not equal to 90 degrees. A medium between the light splitting surface and the first surface and a medium between the light splitting surface and the second surface are the same. The medium is formed by a light transmissive material.

Abstract: In a reflector including an AlGaN layer, an InGaN layer, and a GaN layer placed therebetween, high reflectivity and a wide reflection band are achieved. A reflector includes a substrate containing GaN; first layers containing AlxGa1-xN; second layers containing InyGa1-yN; and a third layer containing GaN, the first, second, and third layers being stacked on the substrate. The first and second layers are alternately stacked, the third layer is placed between one of the first layers and one of the second layers, x and y satisfy a specific formula, the first layers have a thickness less than the thickness of the second layers, and the second layers have an optical thickness of ?/8 to 3?/8, where ? is the central wavelength of the reflection. band of the reflector.

Abstract: A method of transmitting light is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting a first light pulse into a medium to form in the medium a filamented region that is capable of guiding light, and transmitting a second light into the filamented region, wherein the second light is a pulsed light or continues wave light, and wherein the second light is transmitted at least 10 nanoseconds after the first light pulse.

Abstract: The object is to easily expand a variable range of selective wavelengths without enlarging a device. A spectral device 1 of the present invention includes four band pass filters 11a to 11d through which a light L2 from a light source 3 is selectively transmitted within a wavelength range according to an incident angle of the light L2, and a tabular rotary table 10 in which the band pass filters 11a to 11d are installed upright on a principal surface 10a, and which is made rotatable around a rotational center C1 along the principal surface 10a, and the four band pass filters 11a to 11d are respectively disposed so that optical incidence planes 12 or optical emission planes 13 are inclined with respect to lines connecting the rotational center C1 on the principal surface 10a of the rotary table 10 and center points 15a and 15d of the band pass filters 11a to 11d.

Abstract: An optical filter having a passband at least partially overlapping with a wavelength range of 800 nm to 1100 nm is provided. The optical filter includes a filter stack formed of hydrogenated silicon layers and lower-refractive index layers stacked in alternation. The hydrogenated silicon layers each have a refractive index of greater than 3 over the wavelength range of 800 nm to 1100 nm and an extinction coefficient of less than 0.0005 over the wavelength range of 800 nm to 1100 nm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in security devices that can be used in various authenticating or security applications, and in particular to an optically variable security device which can be viewed under low light conditions. The security device comprises a light deflection structure having a first side and a second opposing side. A colorshifting layer is applied to the first side of the light deflection structure and a reflection layer is applied to at least a first region of the second side of the light deflection structure so as to provide a strong reflection in a direction substantially parallel to the incident light source when the direction of the incident light is at an angle away from the normal to the security device. The security device has at least one second region in which the reflection layer is absent, said first and second regions defining indicia.

Abstract: A phosphor device of an illumination system is provided. The illumination system emits a first waveband light and has an optical path. The phosphor device includes a first section and a first phosphor agent. The first phosphor agent is coated on the first section. After the first waveband light is received by the first phosphor agent, the first waveband light is converted into a third waveband light, and the third waveband light is directed to the optical path, so that the third waveband light is separated into at least two color lights along the optical path.

Abstract: A display unit is provided. The display unit includes a plurality of pixels having first to third sub-pixels each of which corresponds to respective colors of red, green, and blue, and a fourth sub-pixel exhibiting higher luminance than the first to third sub-pixels. In each of the pixels, the first to fourth sub-pixels have light-emitting devices. In the first to third sub-pixels, color filters are provided, and in the fourth sub-pixel, the transmittance of light emitted from the light-emitting device is configured to be reduced at a partial or whole region of the fourth sub-pixel. A difference in the transmittance among the first to third sub-pixels having the color filters and the fourth sub-pixel having no color filter is reduced to ensure an excellent luminance balance, which makes it easy to represent desired chromaticity.

Abstract: An optical filter comprising a substrate and a dielectric multilayer film formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate comprises an aromatic polyether-based polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg), measured via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC, heating rate: 20° C./min), of from 230 to 350° C.

Abstract: Optical lenses are described and include a polymeric interference filter disposed on a curved polymeric substrate. The optical lens has an average light transmission of less than 2% across a band of blue light from 400 nm to at least 420 and up to 440 nm and substantially transmits blue light greater than 450 nm.

Abstract: A display device includes a laminated wiring formed of a low-resistance conductive film, and a low-reflection film mainly containing Al and functioning as an antireflective film which are sequentially arranged on a transparent substrate, a wiring terminal part provided at an end part of the laminated wiring and has the same laminated structure as that of the laminated wiring, and an insulating film for covering the laminated wiring and the wiring terminal part, in which the insulating film side serves as a display surface side, the wiring terminal part has a first opening part penetrating the insulating film and the low-reflection film and reaching the low-resistance conductive film, and an outer peripheral portion of the first opening part has a laminated structure of the low-resistance conductive film, the low-reflection film, and the insulating film, in at least one part.

Abstract: An optical element has layers formed on a substrate, including alternating first and second layers having first and second refractive indices, nL and nH that exhibit a spectral characteristic, providing, for incident light at a predetermined wavelength and directed toward the optical element within a range of angles bounded by first and second incident angles ?1 and ?2, between 0 and 80 degrees and differing by at least 1 degree, substantially linear polarization-averaged attenuation of the incident light energy wherein, for any incident angle ?n between ?1 and ?2, A?n is the corresponding polarization-averaged attenuation, and wherein the polarization-averaged attenuation at A?n at angle ?1 is less than or equal to an optical density value of 0.2 and the polarization-averaged attenuation A?n at angle ?2 exceeds an optical density value of 4.

Abstract: An optical filter device includes a wavelength variable interference filter, a housing that stores the wavelength variable interference filter, and a bonding member that fixes a movable substrate to the housing. The housing includes a fixing portion that comes into contact with the bonding member, the fixing portion includes a pedestal fixing surface (first surface) facing a portion of a surface of the movable substrate, a sidewall fixing surface (second surface), continuous with a portion of a periphery of the pedestal fixing surface, which faces a lateral side of the movable substrate, and an intersection surface (third surface) continuous from a remaining portion in a periphery of the pedestal fixing surface in a direction away from the movable substrate, and the bonding member is provided between the substrate surface and the pedestal fixing surface, and between the lateral side and the sidewall fixing surface.

Abstract: An optical body includes a substrate having a concave-convex surface, a reflecting layer formed on the concave-convex surface, and an optical layer formed on the reflecting layer to embed the concave-convex surface, wherein the reflecting layer directionally reflects light, the concave-convex surface is made up of a plurality of triangular pillars arrayed in a one-dimensional pattern, and the triangular pillar has an apex angle ? and a slope angle ?, the apex angle ? and the slope angle ? satisfying a formula (1) or (2) given below: 30???4.5??285(70???80)??(1) 30????1.5?+195(80???100)??(2).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to thin film optical interference filters. The filters include a substrate and a plurality of alternating material layers deposited on the substrate. When operated at about 45° angle of incidence, the filters exhibit at least one of improved polarization splitting, edge steepness, bandpass bandwidth, and blocking, relative to conventional thin film interference filters.

Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a front face cover that covers a front face of a display section for displaying information of the vehicle, and an antireflection film provided on a surface of the front face cover. The surface of the front face cover has a curved face which is formed so that an observation color of the curved face viewed from an eye range of a person sitting on a seat of the vehicle differs depending on an observation position in the eye range due to a difference in an interference wavelength of reflection light reflected by the antireflection film, the reflection light advancing toward the eye range from the front surface.

Abstract: A wavelength variable interference filter includes: a first movable mirror disposed on a first substrate; a second movable mirror disposed so as to be opposed to the first movable mirror with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween; and an electrostatic actuator which varies the length of the gap between the mirrors. The first substrate has a first movable portion on which the first movable mirror is disposed, and a first linkage portion which holds the first movable portion in such a manner that the first movable portion can shift in the thickness direction of the substrate. The second substrate has a second movable portion on which the second movable mirror is disposed, and a second linkage portion which holds the second movable portion in such a manner that the second movable portion can shift in the thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: In forming an optical thin film on a curved surface of a material to be deposited, a specific space, which is part of a space in a processing chamber and is a space between an arrangement part and a target, is surrounded by a shielding part. In this state, when deposition is performed by a sputtering step in which a voltage is applied to the target in the processing chamber which is in a vacuum state and supplied with an active gas and an inert gas, an optical thin film of a substantially equal optical thickness is formed on the curved surface.

Abstract: Optical apparatus includes an image sensor and an optical assembly, which is configured to focus optical radiation via an aperture stop onto the image sensor. The optical assembly includes a plurality of optical surfaces, consisting of a first, curved surface through which the optical radiation enters the assembly, a final surface through which the rays exit the assembly toward the image sensor, and at least two intermediate surfaces between the first and final surfaces. An interference filter, which has a center wavelength and a passband no greater than 4% of the center wavelength, and includes a coating formed on one of the optical surfaces. All rays of the optical radiation passing through the aperture stop are incident on the coating over a range of incidence angles with a half-width that is no greater than three fourths of the numerical aperture of the optical assembly.

Abstract: An optical device including an optical substrate including a first surface having a first zone provided with first selective interferential filtering element for selectively inhibiting transmission of incident light based on the wavelength spectrum of the incident light, the first selective interferential filtering being configured to inhibit, at a first rate of rejection, transmission of a first selected range of wavelengths of incident light, incident on the first zone within a first selected range of angles of incidence, wherein the first selected range of angles of incidence is determined based on at least one main line of sight of a user.

Abstract: An image sensor including a pixel unit, the pixel unit including a photodiode, a first color filter and a second color filter each disposed in a different position on a plane above the photodiode, and a first on-chip lens disposed over the first color filter and a second on-chip lens disposed over the second color filter.