Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of optical interconnection and relates to a photo detector, in particular to a photo detector consisting of tunneling field-effect transistors.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens including a plurality of sawtooth-shaped projections, with each projection including a first surface at a first angle and a second surface at a second angle. Each first surface has top and bottom edges and each second surface has top and bottom edges. Each projection has a top intersection where the top edge of the first surface intersects the top edge of the second surface. Adjacent projections have a bottom intersection where the bottom edge of the second surface of a first one of the adjacent projections intersects the bottom edge of the first surface of a second one of the adjacent projections. The lens portion is opaque at the top intersection of the projections, at the bottom intersection of adjacent projections, and on the first surface between the top intersection and the bottom intersection.

Abstract: A UV-curable adhesive organopolysiloxane composition is provided comprising (A) (A-1) an alkenyl-containing linear organopolysiloxane and (A-2) a three-dimensionai network alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxane resin comprising R12R2SiO3/2, R13SiO1/2 and SiO2 units, wherein R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group exclusive of alkenyl and R2 is alkenyl, (B) (B-1) an alkoxy-free organohydrogenpolysiloxane and (B-2) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing at least one trialkoxysilyl group bonded to silicon via alkylene, (C) a photoactive platinum complex catalyst, and (D) a branched organopolysiloxane oligomer comprising R12R2SiO1/2 and/or R13SiO1/2 units and R1SiO3/2 units, but not SiO2 units.

Abstract: A linear Fresnel lens sheet (3) includes: a lens layer (10) having a first surface (11) in which a linear Fresnel lens portion (13), having a number of lens surfaces (14) arranged in a first direction d1, is formed, and a second surface (12) opposite the first surface (11); and a diffusion layer (20) disposed on the side of the second surface (12) of the lens layer (10).

Abstract: A card has a planar first portion that includes readable data and a second portion that includes a lens. The card can be a credit card and the data can be financial data. The lens provides magnification.

Abstract: A diffraction grating lens according to the present invention is a diffraction grating lens 11 including: a lens body 12; and a plurality of diffraction steps relative to a base shape and a plurality of diffraction gratings 13 interposed between the diffraction steps, provided on a surface of the lens body 12. The lens body 12 is made of a first material having a refractive index n1(?) at a used wavelength ?; the diffraction grating 13 is in contact with air; and the relationship of an inequality below is satisfied, where d is a design step length of the diffraction steps, and m is an order of diffraction.

Abstract: An image-capturing lens is disclosed in the disclosure. The image-capturing lens includes a central portion and a periphery portion. The central portion includes a plurality of optical elements arranged in a circular fashion, and each of the optical elements differs in thickness. The periphery portion extends peripherally from the central portion and has a constant thickness. The thickness of the periphery portion is smaller than a thickness of one of the plurality of optical elements that is approximate to the periphery portion.

Abstract: A diffusing lens includes a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The first surface has a first negative Fresnel structure for diffusing light from a point light source. The second surface has a second negative Fresnel structure aligning with the first negative Fresnel structure and for further diffusing the light of the point light source.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens includes an incident surface that is flat, and a prism-forming surface that has a plurality of prisms, the prism-forming surface being provided on the side of the Fresnel lens opposite to the incident surface. Each of the prisms has a converging surface that is located on the side away from the optical axis of the Fresnel lens.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image projection unit, an optical unit and a mounting unit. The image projection unit emits an image light. The optical unit includes a first optical layer having first and second major surfaces, a second optical layer having third and fourth major surfaces and an intermediate layer provided between the second and third major surfaces. At least a portion of the image light travelling from the first major surface toward the second major surface is reflected by the intermediate layer. At least a portion of a background light travelling from the fourth major surface toward the third major surface is transmitted by the intermediate layer. The first major surface or the fourth major surface is a curved surface. The mounting unit is linked to the image projection unit and the optical unit.

Abstract: An imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including five lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; a fourth lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; and a fifth lens having a concave surface with a corrugated contour directed toward the image side and disposed near the optical axis. At least one surface of the five lenses is aspheric. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness, interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with ultra-wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens comprises a first surface, and a second surface being the reverse side surface of the first surface and having a plurality of lens surfaces. Each lens surface is configured from a part of a side surface of an elliptical cone, which has an apex located on the second surface side and a bottom surface located on the first surface side. Here, in the Fresnel lens, any normal line intersecting with the lens surface configured from the part of the side surface of the elliptical cone among normal lines of respective points on the first surface is non-parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to the lens surface with which the any normal line intersects.

Abstract: A display device with plural screens includes a plurality of display units arranged in matrix and at least one lens module. Each display unit includes a frame located at an outer periphery thereof. The connecting portions located at a crossing of four adjacent display units are substantially cruciform. The at least one lens module is arranged on the cruciform connecting portions. Each lens unit includes a first lens covering a side wall of a display unit, a second lens covering a side wall of an adjacent display unit, and a third lens connected to the first lens and the second lens. The light output surface of the first lens has a plurality of first sawtooth protrusions, the light output surface of the second lens has a plurality of second sawtooth protrusions, and the light output surface of the third lens has a plurality of third sawtooth protrusions.

Abstract: A diffractive lens according to the present invention has the function of focusing light. The diffractive lens has a side on which a diffraction grating is arranged on either an aspheric surface or a spherical surface in its effective area. The diffraction grating has n0 phase steps, which are arranged concentrically around the optical axis of the diffractive lens. And the radius rn of the circle formed by an nth one (where n is an integer that falls within the range of 0 through n0) of the phase steps as counted from the optical axis of the diffractive lens satisfies rn=?{square root over (a{(n+c+dn)?b(n+c+dn)m})}{square root over (a{(n+c+dn)?b(n+c+dn)m})} where a, b, c and m are constants that satisfy a>0, 0?c<1, m>1, and 0.05 ? b 0 < b < b 0 b 0 = 1 mn 0 m - 1 and dn is an arbitrary value that satisfies ?0.25<dn<0.25.

Abstract: An objective lens for an optical pickup device is characterized in that compatibility of three types of optical discs, which are a BD, a DVD, and a CD, may be realized by a common objective lens, and a flare can be created by providing an over-spherical aberration when a third optical disc is used from a size relationship between a pitch on a central region side and a pitch on an intermediate region side across a boundary and a relationship of a direction of a step in the base structures superimposed in a central region and an intermediate region of the objective lens.

Abstract: A system for concentrating solar radiation onto a space debris object to vaporize includes a focusing system, an object tracking system and a positioning system. The focusing system has a total focal length fT, and includes a first focusing device and a second focusing device. The first focusing devices change from a compact state to a deployed state, and the compact surface area is less than the deployed surface area. The object tracking system determines the location of the object. The positioning system orients the focusing system such that solar radiation focuses on the space debris object.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a device called a “G-Fresnel” device that performs the functions of both a linear grating and a Fresnel lens. We have fabricated the G-Fresnel device by using PDMS based soft lithography. Three-dimensional surface profilometry has been performed to examine the device quality. We have also conducted optical characterizations to confirm its dual focusing and dispersing properties. The G-Fresnel device can be useful for the development of miniature optical spectrometers as well as emerging optofluidic applications. Embodiments of compact spectrometers using diffractive optical elements are also provided. Theoretical simulation shows that a spectral resolution of approximately 1 nm can be potentially achieved with a millimeter-sized G-Fresnel. A proof-of-concept G-Fresnel-based spectrometer with subnanometer spectral resolution is experimentally demonstrated.

Abstract: Gradient index lenses with no aberrations and related methods for making such lenses are described. In one aspect, a gradient index lens can be a substantially spherically-shaped lens that has at least one side that is flattened such that a locus of focal points resides on a plane. A method for making a gradient index lens can include forming material layers, each of the material layers defining an effective refractive index, and laminating the material layers together to form a substantially spherically-shaped lens having at least one side that is flattened to a substantially planar surface. The material layers can have a gradient refractive index distribution such that a locus of focal points resides on the substantially planar surface.

Abstract: A method producing a refractive or diffractive optical device, including: production, in a first layer, of at least one inclined general profile approximated by a staircase profile including plural stairsteps; production of the profile including: forming buffer patterns on the first layer and at least one sequence including: forming masking patterns, so each masking pattern includes at least one edge situated above a buffer pattern and covers at least one area of the first layer not masked by the buffer patterns, the forming the masking patterns also defining, for the first layer, plural free areas not masked by the masking patterns or by the buffer patterns; etching the free areas to form trenches in the first layer. The production of the profile also includes: removing the masking patterns, removing the buffer patterns revealing walls previously covered by the buffer patterns, and then an isotropic etching to remove the walls.

Abstract: A traffic signal light device that includes a spread window, a Fresnel lens, and an LED module for emitting light. The light emitted by the LED module passes through the Fresnel lens and to the spread window. The LED module is disposed at a position that is offset from an axis of the spread window that passes through a center of, and is perpendicular to, the spread window. The Fresnel lens can have a saw-toothed pattern of teeth formed as concentric circles on one surface of the Fresnel lens sharing a common center, where the size or height of the teeth vary. The spread window can have a plurality of protruding cells of varying size on a surface of the spread window.

Abstract: An objective lens element which has excellent compatibility with optical discs having different base material thicknesses is provided. An objective lens element 141 has optically functional surfaces on an incident side and an exit side. Either one of the optically functional surfaces is divided into an inner part 131B including a rotational symmetry axis and an outer part 131F which is a ring-shaped region surrounding the inner part 131B. On the inner part 131B, a plurality of discontinuous steps are provided. The plurality of steps change in height in the same direction from the optical axis toward the outer part, and each of the steps causes a constant optical path difference longer than the wavelength ?1 to the first incident light beam 61 and causes a constant optical path difference shorter than the wavelength ?2 to the second incident light beam 62.

Abstract: A collecting lens comprises a first surface and a second surface. Said first surface lens is defined as an opposite surface of said collecting lens from said second surface. Said second surface has a lens surface. Said lens surface includes a plurality of lens function surfaces. Each of said lens function surfaces is defined as part of a side surface of corresponding one of elliptical cones. A particular normal line which is arbitrarily selected from normal lines at respective points on said first surface and crosses one of said lens function surface is not parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to said lens function surface crossed by said particular normal line. Said central axes of the elliptical cones are not parallel to each other.

Abstract: A lens (1) includes a plurality of optical surfaces (S1, S2) each of which is made up of an alternation of active zones (ZA1, ZA2) and separation zones (ZS1, ZS2). The active zones of one of the surfaces are situated beside the separation zones of the other surface. The shape of one at least of the optical surfaces is then adapted into the separation zones in order to augment the acute angles that are situated at the convergence of active zones and separation zones. The lens can thus be made with improved accuracy with respect to a target optical function.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens includes an incident surface that is flat, and a prism-forming surface that has a plurality of prisms, the prism-forming surface being provided on the side of the Fresnel lens opposite to the incident surface. Each of the prisms has a converging surface that is located on the side away from the optical axis of the Fresnel lens.

Abstract: This technology relates generally to methods for the fabrication of high performance lenses, in particular, lenses including a glass carrier and an at least partially transmissive layer with one or more slope facets coupled together by one of more draft facets on a surface of the glass carrier. The methods involve identifying geometric errors in the slope and draft facets to create correction factors and forming corrected slope and draft facets based on the correction factors. This technology also relates to the resulting lenses and lens arrays.

Abstract: A solar energy collector includes a frustoconical reflective shell and a light converging lens. The frustoconical reflective shell includes a top opening and an opposite bottom opening. The reflective shell tapers from the top opening to the bottom opening. The reflective shell is configured for reflecting light. The light converging lens is arranged at the top opening and is fixed on the sidewall of the reflective shell. The light concentration lens includes a central lens portion and a periphery lens portion. The central lens portion includes a first light incident portion facing away from the bottom opening. The central lens portion includes a plurality of concentric annular prisms cooperatively forming a Fresnel-lens structure. The periphery lens portion is arranged surrounding the central lens portion. The periphery lens portion includes a convex second lens portion.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens and a pyroelectricity sensor module are provided. The Fresnel lens includes unit lens groups having different refractive indexes, and each of the unit lens groups includes unit lenses. Between two unit lenses of the same unit lens group at least one unit lens included in a different lens group is arranged. The pyroelectricity sensor module includes a Fresnel lens which condenses infrared light; a detecting sensor disposed to receive the condensed infrared light and detect the infrared light; and a signal processing board on which the detecting sensor is mounted and configured to control an output signal of the detecting sensor. The Fresnel lens includes unit lens groups having different refractive indexes, and each of the unit lens groups includes unit lenses, and between two unit lenses of the same unit lens group, at least one unit lens included in a different lens group is arranged.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a bezel, a display, and a transparent lens member. The display includes a display screen surrounded by the bezel. The transparent lens member is arranged in front of the bezel and the display screen so as to cover at least the display screen, and is capable of displaying an image displayed on the display screen in an enlarged manner of a size equal to or larger than an outer shape of the bezel. The transparent lens member includes an anisotropic magnification lens portion and a non-lens portion. The anisotropic magnification lens portion is provided to a periphery of the transparent lens member. The non-lens portion has a flat plate configuration and is arranged at a center portion of the transparent lens member.

Abstract: This technology relates generally to methods for the fabrication of lenses which include a glass carrier and an at least partially transmissive layer with one or more slope facets coupled together by one or more draft facets on a surface of the glass carrier. This technology also relates to the resulting lenses and systems including lens arrays. These methods eliminate stress deformation in the resulting lenses by the use of a separator between the glass carrier and the at least partially transmissive layer, at least partial curing of the at least partially transmissive layer prior to formation of the slope and draft facets, modified at least partially transmissive layers which have a cure temperature at or below an operating temperature range of the lens, slope and draft facet dimensions which are selected to correspond with an operating temperature range of the lens, or UV-curable at least partially transmissive layers.

Abstract: Light incoupling structures for lighting applications, such as lightguides, are described herein. The incoupling structures include an optically substantially transparent medium for transporting light emitted by a light source and an optical element including at least one hole in the medium for coupling light together with optional further optical elements. A lighting element includes a light source with related integrated optics.

Abstract: The invention relates to optical parts, and in particular to a process for applying an optically active structuring to a substrate, and also to a component produced using a process of this type. The process for applying an optically active structuring to a substrate comprises in particular photolithographic techniques and the deposition of material via physical vapor deposition processes.

Abstract: A lens array module includes a light incident surface, a light emitting surface opposite to the light incident surface, and a plurality of first and second lens surfaces. The first lens surfaces are arranged on the light incident surface to form into an array. The second lens surfaces are arranged on the light emitting surface to form into an array. The center of curvature of each of the first lens surfaces located at two opposite sides of a first reference point on the light incident surface deviates away from the first reference point in a direction parallel to a first reference axis, and the center of curvature of each of the second lens surfaces located at two opposite sides of a second reference point on the light emitting surface deviates toward the second reference point in a direction parallel to the first reference axis. A projection apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A cholesteric liquid crystal device is provided. The cholesteric liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a first reflective layer disposed over the first substrate, a second reflective layer disposed over the second substrate, facing the first reflective layer, and a partition structure disposed between the first and the second substrates, wherein a cavity is formed by the partition structure, the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer, and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer is filled in the cavity.

Abstract: A lens structure for mobile phone flashlight is provided, to improve luminance of edge area and overall luminance. The lens structure includes a lens body. The lens body includes an incident surface and a light-emitting surface, and the incident surface is a Fresnel lens. Edge area of the light-emitting surface is partially disposed symmetrically with at least a pair of second surfaces, and remaining area forms a first surface. The edges of the second surfaces tilt towards direction of the incident surface so that the first surface forms an angle with the second surfaces. As such, the lens structure is able to refract light to project in near rectangular area onto a target object when taking picture.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical element includes a first optical sheet having a first major surface. The first optical sheet includes a first Fresnel lens provided in the first major surface. An optical axis of the first Fresnel lens at the first major surface is disposed at a position different from a position of a center of an outline of the first major surface.

Abstract: A diffraction grating lens according to the present invention includes a lens body and a diffraction grating provided on the surface of the lens body, the diffraction grating including a plurality of annular zones having slopes inclined along a width direction and a plurality of step surfaces respectively located between the plurality of annular zones. At least one of the plurality of annular zones is light-transmissive across its entire area along the width direction, and in the at least one annular zone, a light transmittance near at least one of two ends along the width direction is smaller than a light transmittance near a central portion along the width direction.

Abstract: A method of making a nanostructure is provided that includes applying a thin, random discontinuous masking layer (105) to a major surface (103) of a substrate (101) by plasma chemical vapor deposition. The substrate (101) can be a polymer, an inorganic material, an alloy, or a solid solution. The masking layer (105) can include the reaction product of plasma chemical vapor deposition using a reactant gas comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of organosilicon compounds, metal alkyls, metal isopropoxides, metal acetylacetonates, and metal halides. Portions (107) of the substrate (101) not protected by the masking layer (105) are then etched away by reactive ion etching to make the nanostructures.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating light focusing elements for use in a fiber optic communications system are disclosed in which a plurality of light focusing elements are formed on or in a top surface of a substrate. The substrate is then diced to singulate the light focusing elements.

Abstract: Element, panel and direct solar radiation collecting and concentrating system by means of panels with collecting and concentrating elements which are allowed freedom of movement during diurnal and seasonal sun tracking. The elements in question incorporate a primary lens concentrating direct radiation. The element includes hollow compartments which contain a given fluid at a given pressure. The lower section includes a secondary lens and/or internally reflexive conical element allowing the introduction of radiation, in parallel, into tubes or optical fibre, or irradiation onto radiation converting systems. The movement of the device is produced by fluid heating and pressure in the side compartments. This pressure is communicated to the axes via pistons which cause the device to rotate in search of the optimal position with a view to optimizing its focus on the secondary lens.

Abstract: A sensing method and system for Fresnel lenses are disclosed, the system including a first Fresnel lens unit for sensing the signal of a target object crossing a first boundary of a sensing area, a second Fresnel lens unit for sensing the signal of a target object crossing a second boundary of the sensing area, a third Fresnel lens unit for sensing the signal of a target object crossing a third boundary of the sensing area, and a sensing unit for receiving and processing the sensed signals of the Fresnel lens units. The first and second Fresnel lens units are arranged on two sides of the third Fresnel lens unit. Furthermore, it is possible to add more Fresnel lens units above, below or around the Fresnel lens units. By monitoring the boundaries of the sensing area, the sensing method and system for the Fresnel lenses improve the insufficiency of the sensing area, reduce cost and save power consumption.

Abstract: A center-portion molding member having a center-portion transfer shape surface and a side wall surface is inserted and fitted in a frame-portion molding member having a frame-portion transfer shape surface to form a part of a cavity. The center-portion molding member has a groove portion in the side wall surface. The groove portion protrudes from the frame-portion transfer shape surface. Before injected resin transfers a shape of the center-portion transfer shape surface, the side wall surface of the center-portion molding member is sealed with the resin to form, between the center-portion transfer shape surface and the resin, a space in which gas is confined.

Abstract: Bezel-concealing display covers and display devices are disclosed. In one example, a bezel-concealing display cover includes a bezel and a display panel includes a perimeter portion having a first surface and a second surface such that the perimeter portion is configured to be offset from the bezel of the display device by a gap GA. The bezel-concealing display cover further includes a first array of prisms on at least one of the first surface or the second surface of the perimeter portion that extend from an edge of the perimeter portion to a distance L. Each prism of the first array of prisms has a prism angle ?, and the first array of prisms is configured to shift a portion of an image proximate the bezel produced by the display panel such that the shifted portion of the image appears over the bezel to an observer.

Abstract: A collecting lens comprises a first surface and a second surface. Said first surface lens is defined as an opposite surface of said collecting lens from said second surface. Said second surface has a lens surface. Said lens surface includes a plurality of lens function surfaces. Each of said lens function surfaces is defined as part of a side surface of corresponding one of elliptical cones. A particular normal line which is arbitrarily selected from normal lines at respective points on said first surface and crosses one of said lens function surface is not parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to said lens function surface crossed by said particular normal line. Said central axes of the elliptical cones are not parallel to each other.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for correcting micro-defects on a Fresnel lens surface are described. In one aspect, a measured amount of fluid coating material is applied to the grooved side of a Fresnel lens body, such that in addition to a thin layer of fluid coating material adhering to the surfaces of lens facets and the draft facets of the Fresnel lens body, some of the liquid coating material pools at the bottom corners of the grooves and forms a curved meniscus thereat. The pooled liquid coating material fills out the micro-defects existing in the bottom corners of the grooves. The surface profile of the liquid coating material traces closely to the designed profile of the Fresnel lens body. When the liquid coating material solidifies, the resulting solid coating serves to reduce the undesirable optical effects of the micro-defects in the bottom corners of the Fresnel lens body.

Abstract: A Portable Video Enhancement Apparatus. The apparatus includes a magnification lens, a video device holder and a collapsible housing. In operational mode configuration, the collapsible housing is designed to provide a viewing cavity and a stable medium for the magnification lens and the video device holder. In portable mode configuration, the collapsible housing is designed to have a relatively small volume. The collapsible housing comprises a plurality of support members. The magnification lens and video device holder are situated within the collapsible housing. The magnification lens and video device holder are designed to have different positions within the collapsible housing depending on whether the apparatus is in operational mode configuration or portable mode configuration.

Abstract: A driver vision field extender uses flexible vinyl Fresnel-type prism lens material with substantially parallel horizontal straight linearly extending prism lines. The parallel lines permit wide side by side views without substantial distortion. As the driver vision field extender is intended to be positioned contiguously along the windshield, the driver vision field extender after installation preferably exhibits a concave shape acting to focus the light defining and delineating overhead objects towards front-seated passengers such as the driver.

Abstract: The lens contains a cup-shaped body with a lens bottom and a lens member extended upward from the lens bottom and forming a 49-degree included angle with the lens bottom. The lens member contains, from bottom to top, a number of layers, each having a number of refraction portions. Each refraction portion contains a number of refraction elements arranged in a concentric manner. According to the inclination angle of the lens member, dimensions of the refraction portions, and the distribution of refraction elements, the lens could be applied to various applications with enhanced coverage range and sensory effect.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens comprises a first surface, and a second surface being the reverse side surface of the first surface and having a plurality of lens surfaces. Each lens surface is configured from a part of a side surface of an elliptical cone, which has an apex located on the second surface side and a bottom surface located on the first surface side. Here, in the Fresnel lens, any normal line intersecting with the lens surface configured from the part of the side surface of the elliptical cone among normal lines of respective points on the first surface is non-parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to the lens surface with which the any normal line intersects.

Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for non-attenuating light collimating articles. In one embodiment, among others, a phototool comprises a substrate; and a microstructured surface disposed on a first surface of the substrate, the microstructured surface comprising a plurality of light collimating articles.

Abstract: A book holding apparatus with a magnifying visible area is configured with a bottom section, a left support arm, a right support arm, an upper section, a power supply plug, and a plurality of accessories. The bottom section is attached to the upper section by the left support arm and the right support arm. The upper section includes at least two light-emitting diode (LED) light strips and a fresnel lens. The power supply plug is electrically connected to the at least two LED light strips, and the at least two LED light strips provides the necessary illumination to the upper section. When the users place reading materials on the bottom section, they are able to see a magnified view of the reading materials through the fresnel lens, and the plurality of accessories provides additional functionality for the book holding apparatus with a magnifying visible area.