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An eye-safe atmospheric aerosol lidar featuring high transmit pulse energy to generate strong backscatter from long ranges in a single pulse together with an optically efficient receiver is disclosed. The transmitter employs a gas cell and non-focused laser beam geometry to convert short wavelength laser light to substantially safer and longer wavelength light by stimulated Raman scattering. The longer wavelength light is substantially safer than the shorter wavelength light thereby allowing the safe transmission of high energy pulses. The transmitter also features a diode injection seed and a beam expander which are effective to reduce the divergence of the long wavelength light below the field-of-view of the receiver. The receiver employs a telescope, collimating lens, interference filter, focusing lens, avalanche photodiode detector, amplifier and analog to digital converter. The transmit beam and receiver field of view are coaxial. Initial results demonstrate the ability of such technology to elucidate the structure of the atmosphere with high temporal and spatial resolution.

A display apparatus for producing colored pixelated light includes a backlight unit for providing a pump-beam light. The apparatus also includes a microcavity light-producing array responsive to pump-beam light and having pixels wherein each pixel including a transparent substrate, a bottom dielectric stack reflective to light over a predetermined range of wavelengths, an active region responsive to pump-beam light for producing display light, and a top dielectric stack spaced from the bottom dielectric stack and reflective to light over a predetermined range of wavelengths. The apparatus further includes a light shutter for permitting selected display light from the microcavity light-producing array to pass therethrough, a polarizing layer disposed between the microcavity light-producing array and the light shutter, and a beam expander disposed over the light shutter for increasing the angular cone of view of the display light.

An optical sheet that accepts light transmitted at or within a specific entrance cone angle that then redirects and transmits the light within an exit cone that is substantially normal to the sheet's plane. The intensity of the light within the exit cone is substantially uniform for any light source entering the sheet within the sheet's acceptance angle. The optical sheet is made of transparent material with microlens arrays formed on its opposite front and back surfaces. The thickness of the optical sheet is sufficient so that the microlens on the opposite surfaces are separated a distance equal to the microlens focal length, with each microlens on the front and back surfaces having substantially similar size and shape, with centers transversely aligned. When used with one or more light sources located on one surface, the transmitted light through the optical sheet is uniform in intensity across a second surface. When used with a second optical sheet, aligned parallel to the first optical sheet, the transmitted light is uniform across and throughout angles within the exit cone at a second surface. An economical method of manufacturing the optical sheet is also provided.

The invention relates to a two-stage pressure atomizer nozzle with a nozzle body (30) having a mixing chamber (39) which is connected to an outside space via a nozzle outlet bore (33), and with a first feed duct (42) with a feed bore (41) for a liquid (37) to be atomized, through which feed bore said liquid (37) can be fed, free of swirling and under pressure, at least one further feed duct (36) for a portion of the liquid (37) to be atomized or for a second liquid (37') to be atomized opening into the chamber (39), through which feed duct said liquid (37, 37') can be fed under pressure and with swirling. The feed bore (41) of the first feed duct (42) lies on one axis (34) with the nozzle outlet bore (33). It is defined in that the outlet-side diameter (da) of the nozzle outlet bore (33) is at most as large as the diameter (dz) of the feed bore (41) and the length (L) of the nozzle outlet bore (33) is at least twice to at most ten times the outlet-side diameter (da) of the nozzle outlet bore (33).

The invention describes a laser printing system (100) for illuminating an object moving relative to a laser module of the laser printing system (100) in a working plane (180), the laser module comprising at least two laser arrays of semiconductor lasers and at least one optical element, wherein the optical element is adapted to image laser light emitted by the laser arrays, such that laser light of semiconductor lasers of one laser array is imaged to one pixel in the working plane of the laser printing system, and wherein the laser printing system is a 3D printing system for additive manufacturing and wherein two, three, four or a multitude of laser modules (201, 202) are provided, which are arranged in columns (c1, c2) perpendicular to a direction of movement (250) of the object in the working plane (180), and wherein the columns are staggered with respect to each other such that a first laser module (201) of a first column of laser modules (c1) is adapted to illuminate a first area (y1) of the object and a second laser module (202) of a second column (c2) of laser modules is adapted to illuminate a second area (y2) of the object, wherein the first area (y1) is adjacent to the second area (y2) such that continuous illumination of the object is enabled.

The invention discloses a determined method for an initial gesture on the basis of Doppler optical fiber gyro strapdown inertial navigation system, which comprises continuously collecting data which is output by an optical fiber gyro and a quartz flexible accelerometer after being preheated, processing the data of the gyroscope and the accelerometer which are collected, finishing a rough alignment of the strapdown inertial navigation system, entering into an extractive alignment after the rough alignment is finished, establishing a dynamic base error equation of a marine strapdown inertial navigation system, employing an optimal control filtering theory to design an electric filter, and doing a filtering estimation, extracting information of ship hull gesture misalignment angle to correct the ship hull gesture when a combined extractive alignment is finished, finishing extractive initial alignment, simultaneously obtaining shift estimated value of the gyroscope, and realizing a drift course of the initial alignment. The method of the invention can realize accurate estimation to a zero drift of the optical fiber gyro when the requirement of accuracy and rapidity is guaranteed.

The content of the invention comprises a concept of multi-beam ion pre-selection from a single sample, coordinated mobility (against the gas flow) separation, cooling ions in supersonic gas flow and mass separation of thus low divergent ions by single or plural compact high-resolution orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometers both linear or reflectron type with controlled collision-induced dissociation (CID) and multi-channel data recording for the optimization of sample use in the analysis, and obtaining as much useful information about the sample as possible in a reasonably short time.

Various embodiments include a display panel with integrated micro lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro lenses are aligned to the pixel light sources and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer to maintain the positioning between the micro lenses and pixel driver circuits.

A laser diode array has a semiconductor layered structure that includes at least one active layer. A heat sink is coupled to semiconductor layered structure. A plurality of laser emitters are formed in the active layer. A majority of the plurality of laser emitters have a spacing between adjacent laser emitters that provides for a more uniform heat distribution.

A measuring device is provided with a signal generator and a signal receiver, which is located at a measurable distance from the signal generator. The signal generator is designed for the emission of at least two signal beams covering in given relationship to each other an area and the signal receiver is designed for the time-resolved reception of the signal beams in such a manner that the generator-receiver distance can be determined from the time signature of the signal beam reception.

A lighting apparatus for providing illumination, comprising: a) an array of surface-emitting light sources, wherein each surface-emitting light source directs a source illumination beam, over a beam angle θ, toward an illumination plane; b) an array of beam spreading optical elements corresponding with the array of surface-emitting light sources, wherein refraction of the source illumination beam by each beam spreading optical element substantially satisfies a distribution function: dy / dθ=ƒ(θ) wherein y is a radial distance along the illumination plane from the optical axis of the beam-spreading optical element, dy is an arbitrarily small increment of the radial distance, dθ is the angular increment of the beam angle corresponding to dy, and ƒ(θ) is the distribution function for the angular distribution of the light source, such that each beam spreading optical element adjusts the luminous intensity of the source illumination beam from the corresponding surface-emitting light source to provide a uniformized illumination beam directed toward the illumination plane; and, c) an array of beam-divergence reducing lens elements, wherein each beam-divergence reducing lens element reduces the angular divergence of a corresponding uniformized illumination beam, providing illumination having improved uniformity and reduced beam divergence thereby.

The closed electron drift plasma accelerator comprises an annular ionization chamber, an acceleration chamber on the same axis as the ionization chamber, an annular anode, a hollow cathode, a first DC voltage source, an annular gas manifold, a magnetic circuit, and magnetic field generators. A coaxial annular coil is placed in the cavity of the ionization chamber, is provided with bias conductive cladding connected, together with the electrically-conductive material of the inside faces of the walls of the ionization chamber, to the positive pole of a second voltage source whose negative pole is connected to the anode, and constitutes an additional magnetic field generator which, together with the other magnetic field generators, forms a magnetic field having a magnetic line of force with an “X” point corresponding to a magnetic field zero situated between the coaxial annular coil and the anode.

The invention discloses a method for light, powder and gas co-axial transmission laser cladding forming manufacturing, which is characterized in that: a circular section solid laser beam emitted by a laser is subjected to transformation and beam expansion by the optical path transformation to become a circular laser beam; the circular laser beam is focused to become a hollow circular cone focused laser beam; a powder spraying nozzle is arranged on the hollow part of the circular cone focused laser beam; the powder spraying nozzle and the circular cone focused laser beam are coaxial; the periphery of a single powder beam sprayed by the powder spraying nozzle is provided with a circle of collimation shielding gas curtain; and the collimation shielding gas curtain, the circular cone focused laser beam and the single powder beam sprayed by the powder spraying nozzle are coaxial. By arranging the collimation shielding gas curtain on the periphery of the powder beam, the method realizes the coaxial transmission of light, powders and gas and solves the defects in the prior art.

Various embodiments include a display panel with integrated micro lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro lenses are aligned to the pixel light sources and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer to maintain the positioning between the micro lenses and pixel driver circuits.

The invention discloses a migration method and system based on a deep residual error correction network. The method comprises the following steps: setting values of parameters in a pre-constructed target network model based on a source domain data set and a target domain data set in the network; based on the target network model with the set parameter values, carrying out image category classification on all the data in the target domain data set, and obtaining the category corresponding to each piece of data; labeling the corresponding data in the target domain data set based on the categorycorresponding to each piece of data to obtain a target domain data set with a label; wherein the target network model is constructed based on a residual error correction block and a loss function; wherein the source domain data set comprises a plurality of pictures and labels corresponding to the pictures; wherein the target domain data set comprises a plurality of pictures. According to the residual error correction block and the loss function provided by the concept of the invention, the generalization ability of the original network can be improved through deepening the network, so that thecross-domain image classification accuracy is improved.

The projection type video display includes three illuminating devices (51R-1, 51G, and 51B). Each illuminating device includes a taper type rod integrator and a cuboid shaped rod integrator. The illuminating device (51R-1) emits red light; the illuminating device (51G) emits green light; and the illuminating device (51B) emits blue light. The illuminating device (51R-1) has a Fresnel lens. The illuminating devices (51G and 51B) do not have a Fresnel lens.

A method of changing the kinetic energy of ions is provided, comprising: trapping ions in a trapping region of an ion trap; and directing a beam of gas through the trapping region, so as to change the kinetic energy of the trapped ions thereby. Also provided is a method of separating ions, the method comprising: causing ions to enter a trapping region of an ion trap along a first axis of the trapping region; directing a beam of gas along the first axis and applying an electric potential in the direction of the first axis so as to cause separation of the ions based on their ion mobility. An ion trap and a mass spectrometer for performing the methods are also provided.

A lighting apparatus for providing illumination, comprising:a) an array of surface-emitting light sources, wherein each surface-emitting light source directs a source illumination beam, over a beam angle θ, toward an illumination plane;b) an array of beam spreading optical elements corresponding with the array of surface-emitting light sources, wherein refraction of the source illumination beam by each beam spreading optical element substantially satisfies a distribution function:dy / d⁢⁢θ=f⁡(θ)wherein y is a radial distance along the illumination plane from the optical axis of the beam-spreading optical element,dy is an arbitrarily small increment of the radial distance,dθ is the angular increment of the beam angle corresponding to dy, andƒ(θ) is the distribution function for the angular distribution of the light source, such that each beam spreading optical element adjusts the luminous intensity of the source illumination beam from the corresponding surface-emitting light source to provide a uniformized illumination beam directed toward the illumination plane;and,c) an array of beam-divergence reducing lens elements, wherein each beam-divergence reducing lens element reduces the angular divergence of a corresponding uniformized illumination beam,providing illumination having improved uniformity and reduced beam divergence thereby.

Apparatus for shaping an optical beam bundle carrying a plurality of substantially parallel optical beams disposed in a common plane of travel. First reflective facets and second reflective facets are provided, the first reflective facets being oriented so as to deflect the optical beams of the bundle into a plurality of intermediate, substantially non-parallel optical beams. Each of the second reflective facets is spatially disposed so as to receive a respective one of the intermediate optical beams at a different respective distance from the plane of travel of the optical beam bundle. Also, the second reflective facets are oriented so as to deflect the intermediate optical beams into a bundle of substantially parallel output optical beams. In this way, the output beam can be more adapted for a particular application. In certain cases, this also achieves increased brightness of a laser beam through reduced output beam divergence and / or total cross-sectional area.

The invention discloses a laser guiding back charging method and chip for a mobile robot. The laser guiding back charging method comprises the steps of step 1, controlling the mobile robot to move toa first preset position; step 2, judging that whether an intensity distribution law of an effective laser frame acquired by a laser receiver conforms to an encoding mode of a charging cradle, and thenproceeding to step 3; step 3, determining a preset number of back charging candidate positions within a preset search range based on an acquired laser guiding signal; step 4, controlling the mobile to traverse a preset number of the back charging candidate positions within the preset search range; step 5, controlling the mobile robot to move to a second preset position; step 6, adjusting the posture and orientation of the mobile robot at the second preset position, and controlling a first charging pole of the mobile robot and a second charging pole of the central position of the charging cradle to be docked and charged, thereby improving the guiding precision and efficiency of the laser back charging.

This invention provides an optical pickup apparatus which includes a plurality of light sources, a beam shaping element which is arranged in an optical path through which a light beam emitted from at least one of the light sources passes, and an optical system which includes a divergence angle conversion element and an objective lens and is arranged in an optical path through which the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources pass, and records and / or reproduces information by condensing, through the objective lens, the light beam emitted from each light source on the information recording surface of a corresponding optical information recording medium. An almost elliptical cross-sectional shape of the light beam which enters the beam shaping element is shaped into a cross-sectional shape closer to an almost circular shape or a circular shape, and the light beam emerges from the beam shaping element. The light beam which enters the divergence angle conversion element emerges from it with a reduced angle or degree of divergence.

An light-emitting diode (LED) optical component includes a component substrate having an LED side, an opposite side opposing the LED side, and, optionally, a broken or separated component tether. An LED structure includes an LED and, optionally, a broken or separated LED tether separate from the component substrate. The LED structure is disposed on or adjacent to the LED side of the component substrate and the LED emits light when provided with electrical power. An optical element is disposed at least partly in contact with the component substrate such that at least a portion of the emitted light is incident on the optical element. A second optical element can optionally be disposed between the LED and the component substrate or on the opposite side of the component substrate. An LED optical system includes a system substrate on which one or more LED optical components are disposed. The system substrate can be or include one or more optical elements.

The invention provides a device and a method for reckoning the fatigue crack propagation rate of a flat alloy by AC potentiometry, relating to the field of detecting material fatigue performance. The method comprises the following steps: in the process of a tension-tension fatigue test, two pairs of probes are arranged on the surface of a flat alloy sample, and the sample monitors electric potential change at the two sides of a crack in real time by an AC potentiometry sensor thereon when the fatigue crack propagates; the electric potential change is transmitted to a dual-trace oscilloscope by an amplifier; the dual-trace oscilloscope displays the electric potential oscillogram of the propagation of the two ends of the crack; and the electric potential oscillogram is input to a computer by an A / D converter, and is analyzed by a bundled software to obtain fatigue propagation rate such as the fatigue crack propagation rate and the like. The device of the invention mainly comprises a fatigue-testing machine, sample fixtures, the AC potentiometry sensor, potential measurement probes, lead wires, a signal amplifier, the dual-trace oscilloscope, the A / D converter, a CCD image acquisition system and the computer. The invention is applicable to research on the fatigue crack propagation behavior of the alloy.

A display apparatus for producing colored pixelated light includes a backlight unit for providing a pump-beam light. The apparatus also includes a microcavity light-producing array responsive to pump-beam light and having pixels wherein each pixel including a transparent substrate, a bottom dielectric stack reflective to light over a predetermined range of wavelengths, an active region responsive to pump-beam light for producing display light, and a top dielectric stack spaced from the bottom dielectric stack and reflective to light over a predetermined range of wavelengths. The apparatus further includes a light shutter for permitting selected display light from the microcavity light-producing array to pass therethrough, a polarizing layer disposed between the microcavity light-producing array and the light shutter, and a beam expander disposed over the light shutter for increasing the angular cone of view of the display light.

A single piece optic for coupling the output of a diode laser array into an optical fiber array is provided. The coupling optic has a planar back surface which, during use with a diode laser array, is positioned substantially parallel to the front face of the laser array. The coupling optic is fabricated from a single substrate and is comprised of a plurality of optical elements. Depending upon the technique used to fabricate the optical elements, the individual optical elements may be trapezoidally-shaped or rectangularly-shaped. The front surface of each optical element is tilted, thus preventing reflected laser radiation from resonating within the diode laser's emitters. Preferably the wedge angle for the tilted front surface is greater than 2 mrad, thus accomplishing the goal of limiting feedback into the emitters, and less than 4 mrad, thus reducing beam steering. Additionally each optical element is shaped to reduce the divergence of the emitters in the fast axis, thus allowing the output from each emitter to be effectively coupled into the corresponding optical fiber.

The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for the plasma-based generation of intensive short-wavelength radiation, particularly EUV radiation. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for plasma-based generation of intensive soft x-radiation, particularly EUV radiation, which permits efficient energy conversion in the desired spectral band with high repetition frequency (several kHz) of the plasma excitation, minimized emission of debris and low erosion of the nozzle of the target generator, is met according to the invention in that an additional energy beam is directed on the target flow spatially in advance of its interaction with the high-energy beam, the target flow being acted upon by this additional energy beam with substantially weaker energy pulses compared to the high-energy beam in order to divide the target flow into a first portion and at least one second portion, wherein the target flow is excited at an interaction point within the second portion by the high-energy beam for generating a hot, radiating plasma, and the second portion is decoupled from the first portion and therefore from the target generator in such a way that a hydrodynamic disturbance generated in the second portion by the pulse of the high-energy beam is transmitted into the first portion only negligibly.

The content of the invention comprises a concept of multi-beam ion pre-selection from a single sample, coordinated mobility (against the gas flow) separation, cooling ions in supersonic gas flow and mass separation of thus low divergent ions by single or plural compact high-resolution orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometers both linear or reflectron type with controlled collision-induced dissociation (CID) and multi-channel data recording for the optimization of sample use in the analysis, and obtaining as much useful information about the sample as possible in a reasonably short time.

A light source device for endoscopic or exoscopic applications includes a flat first light source, a second light source, an illuminating beam path that is configured to provide a first light beam emanating from the first light source for an endoscopic or exoscopic application, and a coupling device to couple a second light beam from the second light source into the illuminating beam path, whereby the coupling device is configured in such a way that at the coupling site the cross-section surface of the second light beam is smaller than the cross-section surface of the first light beam.