Abstract: A photographing lens assembly includes a total of eight lens elements which are, 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, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The eighth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one lens element of the photographing lens assembly has at least one lens surface having at least one inflection point.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: an aperture; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.00?v1/v2?4.20; and ?21.00?f2/f1??5.00, where f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; v1 denotes an abbe number of the first lens; and v2 denotes an abbe number of the second lens.

Abstract: A liquid supplier includes: a supply port which supplies a liquid to a space between an objective lens and an observation object; and a recovery port which recovers the liquid supplied from the supply port, wherein the supply port and the recovery port satisfy a condition where positions of the supply port and the recovery port differ from each other in a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens or a condition where positions of the supply port and the recovery port with respect to the optical axis differ from each other in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the objective lens or both conditions.

Abstract: A microscope objective includes: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power and includes a first cemented lens; and a second lens group, the first lens group and the second lens group having concave surfaces adjacent to and facing each other. The second lens group includes: at least one lens component that has a negative refractive power overall; a second cemented lens; and a single lens having a positive refractive power. An axial marginal light ray height is maximized at the lens surface of the microscope objective that is the closest to an image. The microscope objective satisfies the following conditional expression: ?0.38?Fs/FC2?0.38??(1) where FC2 indicates the focal length of the second cemented lens for an e line, and Fs indicates the focal length of the single lens for the e line.

Abstract: A immersion microscope objective includes: a first positive lens group that includes at least one positive single lens and a first cemented lens; a second positive lens group that includes a plurality of cemented lenses including a second cemented lens that is the closest to an object; a third negative lens group that includes a first lens component having a concave surface; and a fourth lens group that includes a second lens component that is the closest to the object, the second lens component having a concave surface, wherein the objective satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.986?NAob/N0?0.995??(1) 0.0095?1/(N1×?1)?0.015??(2) where NAob indicates a numerical aperture of the objective; N0, a refractive index that an immersion liquid has for an e line; N1, a refractive index that the meniscus lens has for the e line; ?1, an Abbe number that the meniscus lens has for a d line.

Abstract: Provided is an endoscope objective optical system that is constituted of, in order from the object side, a positive first group, an aperture stop, and a positive second group, wherein the first group is constituted of a negative first lens whose surface on the object side is flat and a positive second lens; the second group is constituted of a combined lens formed of a positive third lens and a negative fourth lens; and Conditional Expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied. F31, F32, and f are the focal lengths of the third lens, the fourth lens, and the entire system, respectively; and R3 and R4 are the radii of curvature at the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the second lens, respectively. 1.2<f31/f<1.55 . . . (1), ?2.8<f32/f<?1.98 . . . (2), and 0.38<|R4+R3|/|R4?R3|<0.77 . . . (3).

Abstract: Described is a microscope objective (10, 100, 200) having an objective housing (12) which contains a lens system including a lens unit (60) capable of being moved along the optical axis (O) of the lens system to compensate for the thickness of the coverslip, and further having an adjusting device for adjusting the lens unit (60), said adjusting device including a drive unit (14, 102, 202) and a transmission (42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 62) which is drivable by the drive unit (14, 102, 202) and coupled to the lens unit (60). According to the present invention, the drive unit (14, 102, 202) has a motor (34) and is mounted on the objective housing (12).

Abstract: A high-aperture immersion objective, in particular for confocal applications in fluorescence microscopy and for TIRF applications, having three subsystems of lenses and/or lens groups. The design of the subsystems has made it possible for a relatively large object field of 0.25 mm to be present in the case of a high-resolution numerical aperture of 1.49. Furthermore, improved transparency is possible up to a wavelength of 340 nm.

Abstract: An endoscope objective lens unit includes a front lens group and a rear lens group with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The front lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the rear lens group includes a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The endoscope objective lens unit satisfies following expressions (1A) to (4): (1A) ?3 <SF ?1; (2) ?3 <Fr/Ff <?1.1; (3) ?1.6 <Ff/f <?0.6; and (4) Ff/f1 <1.6, where SF is a shape factor, Ff is a focal length of the front lens group, Fr is a focal length of the rear lens group, f is a focal length of the entire unit, and f1 is a focal length of the first lens.

Abstract: An objective lens includes, in order from an object side, a front group having negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive refractive power, wherein the front group includes, in order from the object side, a first lens which is a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface turned to the object side and a second lens which is a negative lens with a concave surface turned to the object side; the rear group includes, in order from the object side, a positive third lens and a fourth lens made up of a positive lens and a negative lens cemented together, and the objective lens satisfies conditional expression (1) below: ?0.8<f—F/f—R<?0.3 ??(1), where f_F is a focal length of the front group, and f_R is a focal length of the rear group.

Abstract: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate may contain electronic circuitry fabricated on the backplane. The electronic circuitry is placed in electrical communication with the array of interferometric modulators and is configured to control the state of the array of interferometric modulators.

Abstract: The present invention offers a dry-type microscope objective lens which has a high NA in the range from low magnification to middle magnification and is lightweight and by which a high-resolution image can be obtained without taking a user time and trouble in observation.

Abstract: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate may contain electronic circuitry fabricated on the backplane. The electronic circuitry is placed in electrical communication with the array of interferometric modulators and is configured to control the state of the array of interferometric modulators.

Abstract: An immersion microscope objective lens of the present invention has: in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power and having a cemented lens of a plano convex lens having a plane facing the object and a meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object, and a single meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object; a second lens group having positive refractive power and having a plurality of cemented lenses; and a third lens group having negative refractive power and having a cemented meniscus lens having a concave surface facing an image, and a cemented meniscus lens having a concave surface facing the object. And the following conditional expressions 0.12<d0/f<0.25, 0.04<?Ct(p)??Ct(n)<0.09 and ?0.03<?hg(p)??hg(n)<0.00 are satisfied.

Abstract: An objective lens OL includes, in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power, a diffractive optical element GD forming a diffractive optical surface D thereon, and a third lens group G3 having negative refractive power. The first lens group G1 includes at least one cemented lens and the most object side surface thereof forms a concave surface facing the object. The second lens group G2 includes at least one cemented lens. The third lens group G3 includes at least one cemented negative lens. In the objective lens OL, a principal ray crosses an optical axis between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3, and in the diffractive optical element GD, the diffractive optical surface D is disposed in the vicinity of the position where the principal ray crosses the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical system for arranging between a light source and a field diaphragm in an illumination beam path of a microscope comprises n imaging optical elements with focal lengths fi and Abbe numbers ?i (i=1, . . . , n). The following relationship is met for the optical system: ? i = 1 n ? h i f i · v i ? 0.07 , where hi is one half of the bundle diameter of a bundle of light rays proceeding from a point of the light source at the entrance to the imaging optical element i.

Abstract: A plurality of microscope-use components are provided for interconnection in a microscope system. Each of the microscope-use components includes a communication interface which enables communication with a control apparatus of the microscope system by a prescribed communication system; a connection component-related information obtainment unit for obtaining connection component-related information that is related to another microscope-use component from a connectable other microscope-use component; and a control unit for transmitting, to the control apparatus of the microscope system by way of the communication interface, the connection component-related information of the other microscope-use component obtained by the connection component-related information obtainment unit and microscope-use component itself-related information that is related to the present microscope-use component.

Abstract: A method of adjusting a projection objective permits the projection objective to be adjusted between an immersion configuration and a dry configuration with few interventions in the system, and therefore to be used optionally as an immersion objective or as a dry objective. The projection objective has a multiplicity of optical elements which are arranged along an optical axis of the projection objective, the optical elements comprising a first group of optical elements following the object plane and a last optical element following the first group, arranged next to the image plane and defining an exit surface of the projection objective which is arranged at a working distance from the image plane. The last optical element is substantially without refracting power and has no curvature or only slight curvature.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid-immersion objective optical system including a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group includes a first lens component having positive refractive power, an object side thereof being a flat surface and a convex surface thereof facing an image-plane side; a second lens component having positive refractive power, a convex surface thereof facing the image-plane side; a third lens component having positive refractive power as a whole, formed by cementing a biconvex positive lens and a negative lens; and a fourth lens component formed by cementing a negative lens and a biconvex positive lens. The second lens group includes a fifth lens component formed by cementing a lens having a concave surface facing the object side and a lens having a convex surface facing the image-plane side; a sixth lens component having positive refractive power; and a seventh lens component having negative refractive power.

Abstract: An arrangement of lenses for a 100×, oil immersion microscope objective is presented. The new configuration gives a flat field of view with diffraction limited performance over all the field. The new optical arrangement broadly includes eight lens elements including a positive power seventh lens element with the radius of curvature of the surface proximate to the object plane less than or approximately equal to the radius of curvature of the surface distal to the object plane, with the optical arrangement arrayed such that the distance from the first lens element to the second lens element is sufficient to reduce a ray height of a light ray and, in addition, arrayed such that the distance from the fifth lens element to the sixth lens element is sufficient to increase the ray height of the light ray entering the sixth lens element from the ray height of the light ray entering the first lens element.

Abstract: A low magnification liquid immersion objective lens system uses an immersion liquid having a refractive index for the d-line within a range defined by a condition (1) shown below, and has a magnification &bgr; and a working distance WDL which satisfy the following conditions (2) and (3): 1.34≦ND≦1.80  (1) &bgr;≦15  (2) WDL≦0.35 mm.

Abstract: An objective lens includes a first lens unit constructed with a plurality of single lenses, having a negative power as a whole, and a second lens unit constructed with a plurality of single lenses, arranged on the object side of the first lens unit.

Abstract: A Galileo type stereomicroscope permits an observer to change its eye-level by varying a space between an objective lens and a pair of a focal variable magnification lenses. The Galileo type stereomicroscope satisfies following condition: Z>f0/3, where Z denotes a variable range of the eye-level and f0 denotes a focal length of an objective lens to be used. The objective lens for the Galileo type stereomicroscope keeps imaging quality up to a periphery of an image field while the eye-level is changed.

Abstract: A variable viewing depth endoscope comprises, successively from the object side, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power and a second lens group G2 which has positive refractive power and is movable along the optical axis are arranged. Focusing at the near point side is made possible by moving the second lens group G2 to the object side, and focusing at a far point side is made possible by moving the second lens group G2 to an image side. The composite focal length fN during near point viewing is made shorter than a composite focal length fF of a whole system during far point viewing.

Abstract: A microscope objective that is achromatic, so that deviations in focus do not arise with visible light and ultraviolet light (particularly light in the vicinity of wavelength=266 nm), and which can satisfactorily observe a specimen. The microscope objective is made of at least three types of glass materials, of which one type is barium fluoride.

Abstract: Objective lenses for endoscopes are made substantially of sapphire. The high refractive index of sapphire results in optical components with shallower curvatures, leading to smaller geometric aberrations, and consequently, fewer components are required to correct for these aberrations. Chromatic aberrations are less severe because of sapphire's low dispersion. The objectives may be either of the landscape or retrofocus type, and are compact with moderate field of view, low f-number, and less distortion than most conventional designs.

Abstract: An objective lens system with protection glass for a microscope and having a numerical aperture of 1.25 and using an immersion oil, having a first, second, third and fourth lens groups, the first lens group being a plano-parallel plate cemented to a hemispherical lens, the second lens group being one aplanatic meniscus, the third lens group being three cemented doublets, and the fourth lens group being two lens components including a positive and a negative meniscus component which are arranged with their concave surface opposite each other. The objective lens system has a relatively small number of lens components, and the aberration, especially chromatic, spherical, coma, astigmatic difference and curvature of field, are corrected favorably.

Abstract: This invention relates to a microscope objective lens system a part of which is immersed in a liquid to observe a sample present in the liquid. Particularly, this invention provides an apochromat-grade microscope objective lens system which can be machined cheaply and easily by the conventional technology, which is well corrected for chromatic aberration, and which is excellent in flatness of the image plane. This objective lens system has a plane-parallel plate on the most sample side, is constructed without using an embedded lens as used in the conventional objectives, and can take a variety of lens layouts.

Abstract: Provided is a microscope objective including a plurality of meniscus lenses disposed along a predetermined optical axis; a plurality of first doublets aligned along the optical axis and disposed behind the plurality of meniscus lenses; and a plurality of second doublets aligned along the optical axis and disposed behind the plurality of first doublets, wherein a distance between a rearmost one of the first doublets and a front one of the second doublets is larger than a distance between any two adjacent ones of the first doublets and a distance between any two adjacent ones of the second doublets.

Abstract: An objective lens system having a first and a second lens group that are separated by a gap where a ray bundle between the first and second lens is substantially telecentric and the second lens group has two lens elements that are also separated by a gap. The first lens element in the second lens group is a positive optical power lens and the second lens element in the second lens group is a negative optical power lens. The objective lens system has a relatively small number of lens elements and the aberration, including chromatic, spherical, coma, astigmatic difference, and distortion, are favorably corrected. In one embodiment, the objective lens system is used in a plan-achromatic microscope objective lens having a numerical aperture of 1.25 to 1.30 with a Petzval sum of 0.1. In a second embodiment, the objective lens system with is used in an achromat microscope objective lens with improved resolution and a greater than 50% transmittance of light at a wavelength of 340 nanometers.

Abstract: A microscope objective lens system comprising a first lens unit which comprises a positive meniscus lens component having a concave surface on the object side and has a positive refractive power, a second lens unit which comprises a diverging cemented surface and has a positive refractive power, a third lens unit which comprises surfaces having strongly diverging functions and has a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit which has a negative refractive power; and configured so as to allow the second lens unit to be moved relatively to the first lens unit and the third lens unit in conjunction with thickness of a transparent plane parallel plate disposed between a surface of an object to be observed and the first lens unit, thereby correcting variations of aberrations caused due to changes in thickness of plane parallel plates.

Abstract: A stereomicroscope comprising an objective lens system and eyepiece lens systems, the objective lens system comprising at least two lens units, permitting a working distance thereof by varying at least one airspace and having a concave surface at a location farthest from an object to be observed so as to minimize lowering of the magnification of the stereomicroscope and stereoscopic impressions of images observed through the stereomicroscope.

Abstract: This invention has as its object to eliminate flare light as a cause of low contrast. A microscope objective lens has, in the following order from the object side, a front group having positive refracting power to convert a beam from an object into a convergent beam, and having a positive meniscus lens element with a concave surface facing the object side, and a cemented lens component disposed at the image side of the positive meniscus lens, and a rear group having negative refracting power, constituted by cementing a negative lens element and a positive lens element, and disposed at the image side of the front group. A last cemented lens component, disposed nearest to the image side, of the cemented lens component in the front group satisfies:.vertline.R.sub.1 .vertline./f>100 (1).vertline.R.sub.2 .vertline./f>20 (2)where R.sub.1 is the radius of curvature of a lens surface on the object side of the last cemented lens component, R.sub.

Abstract: An objective lens system for a microscope comprises, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group shiftable in an optical-axis direction and a third lens group. The first lens group has a cemented lens component composed of a plano-convex lens element with its plane surface toward the object side and a meniscus lens element with its concave surface toward the object side. The second lens group has a first sub-group having the positive refracting power and a second sub-group having negative refracting power. The second sub-group of the second lens group has a negative meniscus lens element with its concave surface toward an image side. The third lens group has a meniscus cemented lens component with its concave surface toward the image side.

Abstract: A liquid-immersion type objective lens system for microscopes comprising a first lens unit which comprises a plano-convex lens component or a plano-convex lens component having a cemented surface strongly convex on the image side and a positive lens component, a second lens unit which has a positive refractive power, and comprises a cemented surface having a strongly negative refractive power and allows a converging light bundle to emerge therefrom, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. The object system is configured so as to be capable of correcting variations of aberrations by moving the second lens unit relative to the first lens unit and the third lens unit in accordance with a thickness of a cover glass plate used in combination with the objective lens system.

Abstract: An apochromat-class immersion microscope objective having a magnification of about 40, a NA of about 1.0, and a satisfactorily flattened image field. The microscope objective includes a first lens unit G1 of positive refractive power which has a cemented lens composed of a plano-convex lens and a meniscus lens having a strong concave surface directed toward the object side, a second lens unit G2 having a cemented lens composed of three lens elements, that is, negative, positive and negative lenses, a third lens unit G3 having a cemented lens, a fourth lens unit G4 including a cemented meniscus lens having a strong concave surface directed toward the image side, and a fifth lens unit G5 including a cemented meniscus lens composed of a negative lens and a positive lens and having a strong concave surface directed toward the object side.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of quasi-monochromatic microscope dry objectives for a wavelength range from 190 to 360 nanometers proceeds from a basic objective with a specified number of lenses. The basic objective is corrected for a specified wavelength with respect to image aberrations. By using lenses with slightly different production thicknesses and by arranging the lenses at different air separations, objectives for other areas of application are created. All of the objectives have the same number of lenses and virtually the same resolution. The data for three objectives derived from a basic objective are provided as an example.

Abstract: A high aperture finite conjugate lens suitable for use in applications requiring high numerical aperture on both object and image sides of the lens such as laser thermal printer system.

Abstract: An objective lens system for use within a microscope includes a first to an eleventh lens which are disposed in that order from an object side to an image side with predetermined air spacings therebetween. The first lens in the form of a meniscus is made of quartz, and has a concave surface which is directed toward an object side. The second lens in the form of a meniscus is made of quartz, and has a convex surface which is directed toward the object side. Each of the third, fifth, sixth and eighth lenses is made of fluorite, and has a positive power. Each of the fourth, seventh and ninth lenses is made of quartz, and has a negative power. The tenth lens is made of either quartz or fluorite, and has a positive power. The eleventh lens in the form of a meniscus is made of quartz, and has a concave surface which is directed toward the image side. The system transmits ultraviolet and/or far ultraviolet light and corrects chromatic aberration.

Abstract: An UV-capable dry objective for microscopes in which aperture aberration is corrected, at the same time, both for the visible spectrum and for a selected UV-wavelength. The objective comprises two lens groups separated by an air gap which is varied in size by relative movement between the two lens groups. The size of the air gap is adjusted to correct aperture aberration for the selected UV-wavelength. The objective is designed so that the mathematical sign is the same for both (i) the corrections required as the illumination moves toward the longer-wave portion of the visible spectrum, and (ii) for the corrections required as the illumination moves toward the shorter-wave portion of the UV-spectrum. The objective has an aperture of at least 0.7 and a magnification of more than 60.times..