148 results about "Beam optics" patented technology

A system for probing a DUT is provided, the system comprising a tunable or CW laser source, a modulator for modulating the output of the laser source, a beam optics designed to point a probing beam at a designated location on the DUT, optical detector for detecting the reflected beam, and collection and signal processing electronics. The system deciphers perturbations in the reflected beam by detecting beat frequency between operation frequency of the DUT and frequency of the modulation. In an alternative embodiment, the laser is CW and the modulation is applied to the optical detector.

A projection apparatus (1200) is provided. The projection apparatus (1200) includes a light-emitting unit array (1210), an optical sensor (1230), and a control unit (1220). The light-emitting unit array (1210) is for emitting an image beam projected onto a screen (60). The optical sensor (1230) is for detecting electromagnetic waves from at least one of the screen (60) and an environment (70) so as to generate a signal. The control unit (1220) is electrically coupled to the light-emitting unit array (1210) and the optical sensor (1230) for controlling emission of the light-emitting unit array (1210) according to the signal from the optical sensor (1230). A light-emitting unit array (1210) and a method for fabricating a light-emitting unit array (1210) are also provided.

A planar light source module including a light guide plate (LGP), a light source, an optical film, and a reflector is provided. The light source for emitting a light beam is disposed adjacent to the side light-incident surface, wherein the light beam enters the LGP from a side light-incident surface and leaves the LGP from a light-emergence surface in an emergence angle θ1, θ1≧70 degrees. The optical film is disposed above the LGP to collimate the light beam from the LGP. The optical film includes a prism layer module and a bonding layer module stacked alternately. The prism layer module comprises prism layers and each prism layer includes micro-prisms. The bonding layer module comprises at least one bonding layer bonded with two prism layers adjacent thereto. The refraction index of the prism layers is greater than that of the bonding layer. The reflector is disposed under the bottom surface.

The present invention relates to a beam optical component including a charged particle lens for focusing a charged particle beam, the charged particle lens comprising a first element having a first opening for focusing the charged particle beam; a second element having a second opening for focusing the charged particle beam and first driving means connected with at least one of the first element and the second element for aligning the first opening with respect to the second opening. With the first driving means, the first opening and the second opening can be aligned with respect to each other during beam operation to provide a superior alignment of the beam optical component for a better beam focusing. The present invention also relates to a charged particle beam device that uses said beam optical component for focusing the charged particle beam, and a method to align first opening and second opening with respect to each other.

A system for probing a DUT is disclosed, the system having a pulsed laser source, a CW laser source, beam optics designed to point a reference beam and a probing beam at the same location on the DUT, optical detectors for detecting the reflected reference and probing beams, and a collection electronics. The beam optics is a common-path polarization differential probing (PDP) optics. The common-path PDP optics divides the incident laser beam into two beams of orthogonal polarization - one beam simulating a reference beam while the other simulating a probing beam. Both reference and probing beams are pointed to the same location on the DUT. Due to the intrinsic asymmetry of a CMOS transistor, the interaction of the reference and probing beams with the DUT result in different phase modulation in each beam. This difference can be investigated to study the response of the DUT to the stimulus signal.

Described are an improved automated luminaire 12 and luminaire systems 10 employing an improved output Fresnel lens 46 with an optically planar surface 34 combined with an articulable stippling plate 47. The stippling plate 47 may be inserted and removed immediately behind and adjacent to the planar rear surface of the lens 46 in order to transform the optical system from beam optics to wash optics or immediately adjacent to another articulable lens system 29 directly the light beam toward the previously described Fresnel lens. Further embodiment may include an articulable beam spreader.

Gas purge systems and methods and a spectroscopic ellipsometer are disclosed. A purge gas system may include an input beam optics housing, a collection optics housing and a gas purge manifold. The input beam optics housing may include a first gas flow path between a first gas inlet and an aperture in a first nose cone proximate a measurement position. The collection optics housing may include a second gas flow path between a second gas inlet and an aperture in a second nose cone proximate the measurement position. The gas purge manifold may be disposed between the input beam optics housing and the collection optics housing. The gas purge manifold has a third gas flow path between a third gas inlet and an aperture in the gas manifold proximate the measurement position. The ellipsometer may include input beam optics in the input beam optics housing and collection optics in the collection optics housing. First, second, and third flows of purge gas may be supplied through the input beam optics housing, collection optics housing and gas purge manifold respectively. The purge gas is delivered directly to a measurement position of a surface of a substrate through the gas purge manifold, the first nosecone and the second nose cone.

A sample inspection system having a sample stage holding a sample to be inspected corresponding to a selected file, electron beam optics so as to radiate an electron beam to the sample, a detector unit that detects a secondly generated signal attributable to the electron beam, a storage for storing a plurality of images obtained from the secondly generated signal and information for classifying the plurality of images by a type of defect in the sample, and an image processing unit. The image processing unit retrieves any of the plurality of images and classifies the retrieved image depending on the type of defect including an electrical defect and a defect in the figure.

A headlamp for a motor vehicle, this headlamp comprising at least one optical module capable of emitting a plurality of light beams, including a low beam and at least one additional light beam. The optical module is equipped with a cover plate which can be moved between at least two positions, this movable cover plate being configured along a shaft mounted so as to rotate in the optical module and driven in rotation at least by a motor. The shaft comprises at least one first cut-off member configured as a double-edged cover plate providing an oblique cut-off for emission of the low beam, and at least one second cut-off member configured as a wall of substantially constant height, angularly offset relative to the first cut-off member and providing at least one substantially vertical cut-off line for emission of a high beam.

Optical shape sensing system for sensing a position and/or shape of a medical device (20) using backscatter reflectometry, comprising a broadband light source (12) for generating input light of multiple wavelengths of a broadband spectrum, an interferometer arrangement (11) comprising a plurality of interferometers including a multi-core optical fiber (22m, 30), the multi-core optical fiber (22m, 30) comprising at least two fiber cores (31, 32a,b,c), wherein each of the interferometers is configured to perform backscatter reflectometry separately with a corresponding one of a plurality of input light beams divided from the input light and comprises a fiber splitter (14) for dividing the corresponding input light beam into a reference beam and a device beam, an additional optical fiber (22s) for guiding the reference beam, a corresponding fiber core (31, 32a,b,c) of the multi-core optical fiber (22m, 30) for guiding the device beam to be reflected within the medical device (20) and for guiding the reflected device beam, and a fiber coupler (18) for coupling the reflected device beam with the reference beam to form an output light beam, the optical shape sensing system further comprising a spectrometer (28) for receiving and interacting with the output light beam, the spectrometer (28) comprising a detector unit (26) for detecting the output light beam.

An optic element receives an input light beam with a first beam angle and an axis. The optic element includes a first surface that receives the input light beam and generates an expanded light beam with a second beam angle that is greater than or equal to the first beam angle. The optic element includes a second surface that receives the expanded light beam and generates an output light beam that is either substantially collimated or near collimated. The output light beam is tilted a predetermined degrees with respect to the axis of the input light beam.

An x-ray source provides both a line focus output and a point focus output, and is mounted on a rotatable support to allow easy changing between the two. A housing has ports at different angular positions relative to an anode, and each port has an associated optic appropriate for an x-ray beam passing through that port. Three or four ports may also be used to allow for different types of beam conditioning. The different beam optics may also do conditioning based on wavelength, and the anode may be of a composite material to provide different wavelength ranges. The rotatable support may be manual or motorized, and a lockout mechanism may be used to ensure that only one port is active at a time. The support may also be located on a movable table that is movable in multiple perpendicular directions.

The invention relates to a backlight module and a liquid crystal display comprising the same. The backlight module is provided with a reflecting base, and a fluorescent material layer is arranged on the reflecting base; and a plurality of blue light emitting dioxide components are arranged above the reflecting base and the fluorescent material layer and emit first light beams. An optical membrane is arranged above the reflecting base, the fluorescent material layer and the blue light emitting dioxide components, is used for P polarization light of the first light beams to transmit, and reflects S polarization light of the first light beams to the fluorescent layer so as to excite the fluorescent layer to generate second light beams with different wave length from that of the first light beams. The second light beams are reflected to the optical membrane through the reflecting base, then can transmit the optical membrane, and are mixed with the first light beams to generate white light.

A beam-steering engine, comprising an optical element switchable between a first operational mode and a second operational mode, in the first operational mode of the optical element the beam-steering engine is configured to output an input light beam incident on the beam-steering engine along a first propagation direction and in the second operational mode of the optical element the beam-steering engine is configured to output the input light beam incident on the beam-steering engine along a second propagation direction. A transition of the optical element between the first and second operational modes is characterized by a transition time period that varies with a temperature of the optical element. The beam-steering engine further includes a device to control a temperature of the solid-state optical element to maintain the transition time period below a certain limit.

An optical switch for switching communication light beams propagating through a plurality of optical fibers. The switch includes a plurality of input-side lenses, a plurality of moving mirrors, a plurality of output-side lenses, light emitting units, and light receiving units arranged for optical communication. The plurality of input-side lenses include first input-side lenses to which communication light beams coming from first external units and propagating through input-side optical fibers connect optically and second input-side lenses to which the light beams from the light emitting units connect optically. The plurality of output-side lenses include first output-side lenses for causing light beams passing therethrough to optically connect to second output-side optical fibers adapted to propagate the communication light beams to second external units and second output-side lenses for causing the light beams coming from the light emitting units and passing therethrough to optically connect to the light receiving units.

Optical connectors are provided for connecting sets of optical waveguides, such as optical fiber ribbons to each other, to printed circuit boards, or to backplanes. The provided connectors utilize expanded beam optics with non-contact optical mating resulting in relaxed mechanical precision requirements. The provided connectors can have low optical loss, are easily scalable to high channel count (optical fibers per connector) and can be compatible with low insertion force blind mating.

Provided herein are approaches for reducing particles in an ion implanter. An electrostatic filter may include a housing and a plurality of conductive beam optics within the housing. The conductive beam optics are arranged around an ion beam-line directed towards a wafer, and may include entrance aperture electrodes proximate an entrance aperture of the housing. The conductive beam optics may further include energetic electrodes downstream along the ion beam-line from the entrance aperture electrodes, and ground electrodes downstream from the energetic electrodes. The energetic electrodes are positioned farther away from the ion beam-line than the entrance electrodes and the ground electrodes, thus causing the energetic electrodes to be physically blocked from impact by an envelope of back-sputter material returning from the wafer. The electrostatic filter may further include an electrical system for independently delivering a voltage and a current to each of the conductive beam optics.

The invention discloses a proton beam flow intensity modulation method and system. In a proton therapy device based on a cyclotron, an energy selection module makes the transmission efficiency of the proton beam with different energies very different, but a treatment end requires the proton beam to maintain a stable flow intensity range. The method of the invention firstly obtains the beam loss and the transmission efficiency of the proton beam with different energies in an energy reduction process after the energy modulation of the proton beam, and obtains a flow intensity ratio from low energy to high energy. According to the clinical requirements of the proton beam flow intensity dynamic ratio, after different energy points which have been subjected to energy modulation undergo expansion and collimation, the flow intensity modulation within a design proportional region is completed and the flow ratio can be controlled within a certain value. The method and the system of the invention are based on the Monte Carlo calculation method and the beam optics. The design method is reliable, and the realization scheme has a small space requirement, which is important for maintaining the beam stability in the proton therapy process.

The invention relates to a laser radar system based on an MEMS scanning mirror. The system comprises: a laser emitting device used for emitting a laser beam; the MEMS scanning mirror that is used forreflecting the laser beam to form a scanning laser beam, the MEMS scanning mirror can swing within a preset deflection angle range to realize beam scanning in a first direction, and the emitting direction of the scanning laser beam is related to the deflection angle of the MEMS scanning mirror; an optical rotating mirror that is used for reflecting the scanning laser beam to form a reflection laser beam, and the optical rotating mirror rotates or swings around a rotating shaft of the optical rotating mirror to realize beam scanning in a second direction; the optical rotating mirror is also used for reflecting the received target echo to form a reflection echo, and the target echo is an echo after the reflection laser beam is subjected to diffuse reflection on a target object; a laser receiving device is used for receiving the reflection echoes. According to the system, the light energy utilization rate of the laser beams is high, the detection distance of the system is large, and the detection precision and the detection resolution are high.