667 results about "Diffraction optics" patented technology

A kaleidoscopic laser beam projector (KLBP) system that employs a single moving structure to project patterns of sweeping laser beams with diverse sweep directions and emission apertures. The system comprises a collimated light source, a spinning mirror deflector (“spindle / flutter mirror”) at the center, and a stationary kaleidoscopic mirror containing multiple facet mirrors arranged in a concave fashion around the spindle mirror. As the spindle mirror rotates, it directs laser beams in a radially whirling movement toward the facet mirrors, which then subdivide these beams into multiple short strokes and redirect them outward in different directions. Various embodiments include configurations with diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for beam splitting, different kaleidoscopic mirror geometries (hexagonal, octagonal, etc.), and innovative flutter mirror mechanisms that create controlled angular variations during rotation. The system enables a “4×1” configuration that replaces traditional “4×4” systems requiring eight motors and multiple moving structures. The KLBP system offers significant advantages including mechanical simplicity, reduced size and weight, improved energy efficiency, enhanced reliability, cost-effectiveness, and modular configurability. The diverse beam incidence angles enable superior illumination of complex three-dimensional objects for applications in machine vision systems, precision metrology, gap and flushness inspection, and robot-assisted assembly of complex structures.

The present disclosure generally relates to a lens that provides a stop signal for myopia over a substantial portion of a spectacle lens that is being used by a viewer. The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, method, and / or system for applying a stop signal for eye development using a spectacle lens in combination with an array of microlenses. The present disclosure also relates to an apparatus, method, and / or system for modifying incident light through a spectacle lens that utilizes color cues to slow the rate of myopia progression. The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, method, and / or system for applying a stop signal for eye development using a spectacle lens in combination with a refractive optical element and / or a diffractive optical element that provides conflicting or opposing optical signals at wavelengths between 510 nm and 610 nm.

The invention relates to the technical field of image processing, and discloses an image correction method and system for binocular diffraction AR intelligent glasses. The method comprises the following steps: calculating a dispersion response parameter of a diffractive optical element in the AR glasses in a visible light wave band; respectively carrying out dispersion distortion detection on the left eye image and the right eye image in the AR glasses to obtain a left eye dispersion distortion feature and a right eye dispersion distortion feature; interpupillary distance change data of a user is obtained, effective aperture offset calculation is carried out on the diffractive optical element, and interpupillary distance compensation parameters are obtained; performing coupling calculation on the left eye dispersion distortion feature, the right eye dispersion distortion feature and the interpupillary distance compensation parameter to obtain a binocular dispersion correction matrix; and performing dispersion compensation on the left eye image and the right eye image to obtain a dispersion correction image, and outputting the dispersion correction image to a display module of the AR glasses. The method can respond to the pupil distance change of the user in real time, automatically adjust dispersion correction parameters, realize accurate and comprehensive dispersion correction, and ensure the stability of dispersion correction performance.

The disclosure relates to augmented reality devices based on a curved waveguide. An augmented reality device is provided. The augmented reality device includes a projection system to project an undistorted image, an input optical compensator located on the path of light rays out-coupled from the projection system, a curved waveguide comprising an input diffractive optical element and an output diffractive optical element. The output diffractive optical element performs the function of an output optical compensator that converts the light beams of a distorted image at the output of the waveguide into parallel light beams to output an undistorted image. Augmented reality glasses comprising an augmented reality device are also proposed. There is provided the ability to project a virtual image without aberrations, distortions and doubling of the image.

The invention relates to the technical field of target distance detection and 3D scanning reconstruction, and discloses a coaxial scanning type ultra-long distance detection laser radar system, which comprises a laser light source module, which adopts a 1550nm optical fiber laser to output high-power laser, and ensures sufficient laser energy and human eye safety; according to the invention, by adopting the high-power 1550nm fiber laser, the ultra-long distance detection is realized on the premise of ensuring the safety of human eyes, and the detection range of more than 10km can be reached, so that the limitation that the detection distance of the traditional laser radar is only 500m is broken; according to the invention, by selecting the 1550nm laser device which is safer to human eyes and greatly improving the laser power to kilowatt and even myriawatt levels, stronger echo signals are realized, so that the detection signal-to-noise ratio is remarkably improved; the micro-lens array is adopted to replace a traditional DOE diffractive optical element, efficient beam shaping of a one-dimensional or two-dimensional dot matrix is achieved through flexible regulation and control of the curvature radius and the distance of the micro-lenses, meanwhile, the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the design freedom degree is expanded.

An optical element, an optical element monitoring system, and a method, monitor in real time whether an optical element such as a diffractive optical element or a diffuser in an active light emitting module is damaged or falls off, and turn off a laser when the optical element is damaged or falls off.

The invention discloses a method for designing a myopia prevention and control lens based on harmonic diffraction. Relates to the technical field of eye vision optics, in particular to the technical field of a myopia prevention and control lens design method based on harmonic diffraction. According to the method, a harmonic diffractive optical lens chromatic aberration correction method and a harmonic diffractive optical lens diffraction efficiency calculation method when shielding is considered are firstly designed, chromatic aberration is effectively eliminated, the diffraction efficiency is evaluated, and then influences of chromatic aberration correction and shielding error manufacturing are balanced by designing a balance optimization model. The method comprises the following steps: designing a diffractive optical element on the refraction surface of a myopia prevention and control lens to obtain a refractive and diffractive optical lens; modulating the harmonic number # imgabs0 # of the refractive and diffractive optical lens to obtain a harmonic diffractive optical lens; designing a chromatic aberration correction method of the harmonic diffractive optical lens; harmonic diffractive optical lenses are designed that take into account additional refractive power and diffraction efficiency at the time of manufacturing shields.

Optical device films and methods of forming optical device films having a RMS surface roughness less than about 2.2 μin and a refractive index greater than 2.0 are provided. In one embodiment, an optical device film is provided and includes a crystalline or nano-crystalline material having a refractive index greater than 2.0. A top surface of the optical device film has a root-mean-square (RMS) surface roughness less than about 2.2 microinches (μin).

A diffractive optical waveguide is disclosed, in which a grating structure comprises a plurality of optical unit structures arranged in an array, a cross-section of an optical unit structure has a shape with two small ends and a large middle part, length L and maximum width W of the cross-section satisfy 0.2L≤W≤0.8L, and contour curves each are formed between an upper vertex and a left vertex, the upper vertex and a right vertex, a lower vertex and the left vertex, and the lower vertex and the right vertex, respectively. A display device comprising the same and a design and formation method for the same are also disclosed. The cross-section of the optical unit structure has a curved contour, with edges which are smooth and have very good processability. Also, the cross-section with curve contour of the optical unit structure has a very high degree of design freedom.

The utility model provides a metasurface type speckle projector and depth detection equipment, which can realize a speckle projection function based on a light source array by using a metasurface and avoid the problem of zero-order bright spots or stronger background light generally existing when a diffractive optical element is used. The metasurface type speckle projector comprises a light source array used for emitting a plurality of conical light beams arranged in an array; the light modulation element has positive focal power, is arranged on the light emitting side of the light source array and is used for collecting the conical light beams from the light source array; and the metasurface element is arranged on one side, far away from the light source array, of the light modulation element and is used for regulating and controlling the light beams gathered by the light modulation element so as to form a plurality of collimated light beams projected towards different directions.

The invention relates to the technical field of laser welding, and provides a high-speed laser welding wire box process based on multi-beam synergy, which comprises the following steps: step 1, at least three laser beams are adopted as a synergy composite heat source, a main laser beam is responsible for penetration fusion welding, and an auxiliary laser beam is responsible for preheating, post-heating or molten pool stabilization; when the copper-aluminum dissimilar material is welded, an auxiliary laser beam is switched into a green laser; and 2, assembling a multi-beam optical regulation and control unit comprising a diffractive optical element, a quartz field lens and a galvanometer scanning module, splitting a main beam into one main beam and two auxiliary beams through the diffractive optical element, controlling focal depth fluctuation by the quartz field lens, and realizing accurate movement positioning of a laser beam by the galvanometer scanning module. Through integration of multi-beam collaborative design and an intelligent control unit, remarkable breakthroughs are achieved in the aspects of welding efficiency, quality consistency and process adaptability, firstly, in the aspect of efficiency and process, the welding speed is greatly increased, multi-station synchronous operation of an automatic welding unit is matched, and the welding period of a single-line box is remarkably shortened.

The invention relates to the technical field of laser beam shaping, discloses an active test method and system for a circuit breaker, and is used for solving the problem that the self-adaptive shaping capability of a CO2 laser beam is difficult to improve by the existing method. Firstly, a stable light path is constructed, and the stability of the light path is ensured through mechanical limiting, a thermal management module and multi-stage optical alignment; then low-power calibration is carried out, a deformable mirror initial driving table is generated through a least square inversion algorithm, and a flat-topped beam reference is established; data are collected through a wavefront sensor, a high-order mode is reconstructed, the voltage of a deformable mirror is dynamically refreshed, and wavefront control and scanning motion synchronization is ensured in combination with scanning galvanometer time sequence synchronization, closed-loop control and exception handling; monitoring the temperature of the deformable mirror, starting water-cooling adjustment, and correcting the driving table to cope with the heat effect; finally, a safety system is constructed, laser power, wavefront distortion and deformable mirror stroke parameters are monitored, dry gas purging is conducted on the diffractive optical element regularly, and safety guarantee and performance verification of the whole process are achieved.

The invention discloses a periscope head image difference compensation method and system, a computer and a storage medium, a periscope head comprises a reflecting prism, a lens group and a diffractive optical element, and the non-reflecting surface of the reflecting prism is provided with a polarization coating; the method comprises the following steps: constructing an optical path model according to design requirements of a periscope lens module, and carrying out aberration analysis on the optical path model; calculating a chromatic aberration compensation phase function of the diffractive optical element according to a chromatic aberration compensation formula; calculating a spherical aberration compensation phase function of the diffractive optical element according to a spherical aberration expansion formula; and calculating a total phase function of the diffractive optical element, and performing aberration compensation on the optical path model according to the total phase function. According to the long-focus periscope lens module, the total aberration of the periscope lens module can be compensated by utilizing the cooperation of the diffractive optical element and the reflecting prism with the polarization coating, so that the size of the long-focus periscope lens module is reduced, and the imaging quality of the long-focus periscope lens module is improved.

A beamsplitter can include a first surface with a diffractive optical element, a second surface normal to the first surface, and a beam splitting surface arranged at an angle to the second surface that is less than 45 degrees. The beamsplitter may be configured to illuminate the entire second surface in response to an input beam at the first surface.

The invention discloses a light spot adjustable optical system, a diffraction optical module and laser processing equipment, and relates to the technical field of precision processing. The optical system comprises a laser, a beam expander, a diffractive optical module and a focusing module which are sequentially arranged in the light path direction, the diffractive optical module comprises at least one diffractive optical element, and the diffractive optical element is manufactured based on a geometric phase liquid crystal polymer birefringent material. The diffractive optical module is used for regulating and controlling light spot characteristic parameters corresponding to a Gaussian beam, the Gaussian beam is emitted by the laser and enters the diffractive optical module after being expanded and collimated by the beam expander, and the light spot characteristic parameters comprise a light spot distribution position and light spot energy intensity. By the adoption of the optical system, laser energy distribution can be optimized, splashing is effectively restrained, and the welding quality and the processing efficiency are improved.

The eyepiece waveguide stack includes a first eyepiece waveguide including a first incoupling diffractive optical element and a first compound pupil dilator, and a second eyepiece waveguide including a second incoupling diffractive optical element and a second compound pupil dilator, the second incoupling diffractive optical element being laterally offset from the first incoupling diffractive optical element.

The embodiment of the invention provides a diffractive optical structure and near-to-eye display equipment. The diffractive optical structure comprises a waveguide substrate and a grating area and a non-grating area which are arranged on the waveguide substrate, a grating structure is formed in the grating area, a dielectric layer covers the non-grating area, and the refractive indexes of the grating structure and the dielectric layer are n1; a pre-compensation structure is arranged in at least part of areas, corresponding to the multiple grating structures and / or the multiple non-grating areas, on the waveguide substrate, the pre-compensation structure is a concave structure which is formed in the thickness direction of the waveguide substrate and has a specific depth, and the concave depth hi of the pre-compensation structure meets the condition that hi is smaller than di * (n1 / n2), wherein di is the grating depth of the grating structure or the thickness of the dielectric layer at the position corresponding to the pre-compensation structure, i is the number of the grating area or the non-grating area, and i is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; n2 is the refractive index of the waveguide substrate.

An apparatus includes: first and second light guides, each light guide respectively including: a plurality of diffractive optical elements configured to: in-couple one or more input beams of light into the light guides, expand the input beams of light, and out-couple the expanded beams of light from the light guides to provide expanded output light beams; wherein the out-coupling diffractive optical elements include a plurality of sections thereof that are independently switchable between first and second out-coupling states. A section of the out-coupling diffractive guide in the first out-coupling state permits the out-coupling of the expanded beams of light therefrom. A section of the out-coupling diffractive guide in the second out-coupling state precludes the out-coupling of the expanded beams of light therefrom. The out-coupling diffractive guides at least partially overlap.

There is provided a smoke detector including a light source, a diffractive optical element, a light sensor, a reflective tilted surface, and a light trap region. The light source projects a shaped light beam on the reflective tilted surface via the diffractive optical element. The reflective tilted surface is arranged right above the light trap region, and used to reflect the shaped light beam to the light trap region. A first light blocking wall is arranged between the light source and the light sensor. A second light blocking wall, higher than the first light blocking wall, is arranged between the light sensor and the light trap region.

Provided is a waveguide guiding light to a target area, the waveguide including an input-coupling diffractive optical element (DOE) inputting the light into the waveguide, an expanding DOE expanding the light input into the waveguide through the input-coupling DOE, an output-coupling DOE outputting the light expanded in the waveguide by the expanding DOE to an outside of the waveguide, wherein the expanding DOE includes a plurality of expanding segments, and the output-coupling DOE includes a plurality of output-coupling segments.

The application relates to a kind of diffractive optical element beam shaping methods based on spatial frequency filtering, obtain incident light beam, based on the homogenization light beam of preset, obtain corresponding geometric analytical phase distribution;Adjust the homogenization light beam to rectangular flat-top light beam, the phase correction processing of obtained geometric analytical phase;Based on spatial frequency filtering method processing the geometric analytical phase after phase correction, get the light field regulation and control distribution requirement after processing, the light field regulation and control distribution requirement after processing has phase and amplitude regulation and control requirement simultaneously;Design diffractive optical element, make it realize the light field regulation and control distribution requirement required, and utilize the diffractive optical element to realize the incident light beam shaping as the rectangular flat-top light beam.The application can realize the light beam homogenization effect of high uniformity, edge sharp and high diffraction efficiency, and obtain wide application prospect in laser welding, photoetching and biomedical and other aspects.

The embodiment of the invention provides a diffractive optical structure and near-to-eye display equipment. The diffractive optical structure comprises a waveguide substrate, a grating area and a non-grating area, the grating area and the non-grating area are arranged on the waveguide substrate, a grating structure is formed in the grating area, the non-grating area is covered with a dielectric layer, and the refractive index of the grating structure and the refractive index of the dielectric layer are both n1; in the areas, corresponding to the multiple grating structures and / or the multiple non-grating areas, on the waveguide substrate, at least part of the areas are provided with compensation thin film layers; the thickness Ti of the compensation thin film layer satisfies Ti < di * (n1 / n2), and di is the grating depth of the grating structure at the position corresponding to the compensation thin film layer or the thickness of the dielectric layer; n2 is the refractive index of the compensation film layer; the compensation thin film layer is configured to compensate reflection phase difference caused by structural difference between the grating area and the non-grating area when light is propagated in the waveguide substrate in a total reflection mode, and the absolute value of the reflection phase difference does not exceed a preset threshold value.

The present disclosure relates to devices, systems and / or methods for myopia control. The present disclosure generally relates to a lens that provides a stop signal for myopia on a substantial portion of the spectacle lens being used by a viewer. The present disclosure relates to devices, methods and / or systems for applying a stop signal for eye development using ophthalmic lenses in combination with microlens arrays. The present disclosure also relates to devices, methods and / or systems for modifying incident light through spectacle lenses that utilize color cues to slow down the rate of myopia progression. The present disclosure relates to devices, methods and / or systems for applying a stop signal for eye development using spectacle lenses in combination with refractive and / or diffractive optical elements that provide conflicting or opposition optical signals at wavelengths between 510 nm and 610 nm.

A time-lapse image classification device and method is disclosed that uses a diffractive optical network to classify an optical input, significantly advancing classification accuracy and generalization performance on complex input objects by using the lateral movements of the input objects and / or the diffractive optical network relative to each other. The design space and performance limits of time-lapse diffractive optical networks were numerically tested, revealing a blind testing accuracy of 62.03% on the optical classification of objects from the CIFAR-10 dataset. This constitutes the highest inference accuracy achieved so far using a single diffractive optical network on the CIFAR-10 dataset. Time-lapse diffractive optical networks will be broadly useful for the spatio-temporal analysis of input signals using all-optical processors.

The invention discloses a stray light removing system of a diffractive optical element for beam splitting, which comprises a laser light source, the diffractive optical element for beam splitting, a first focusing element, a diaphragm, a second focusing element and a third focusing element which are sequentially arranged along the direction of a laser light path, and is characterized in that the diffractive optical element is used for splitting incident light into a plurality of sub-beams; a plurality of light through holes used for removing stray light are formed in the diaphragm corresponding to the plurality of sub light beams, the focal lengths of the first focusing element and the second focusing element are the same and are F, the distance between the diaphragm and the first focusing element and the distance between the diaphragm and the second focusing element are the same and are L, and L is equal to F. By forming a 4f filtering system, stray light of each sub light beam is effectively removed, and under the condition that the transmission characteristic of light is not changed, the whole structure is simple, operation is convenient, the yield of machined products is guaranteed, and cost is saved.

The embodiment of the invention provides a diffractive optical structure and near-to-eye display equipment. Wherein the diffractive optical structure comprises a waveguide substrate, a plurality of grating areas and a plurality of non-grating areas, the grating areas and the non-grating areas are arranged on the waveguide substrate, and grating structures are formed in the grating areas; wherein a small-period grating structure is formed in at least part of the area, corresponding to the multiple grating structures and / or the multiple non-grating areas, on the waveguide substrate, and the grating period of the small-period grating structure is smaller than that of the grating structure; the small-period grating structure is configured to compensate reflection phase difference caused by structural difference between the grating area and the non-grating area when light is totally reflected and propagated in the waveguide substrate, and the absolute value of the reflection phase difference does not exceed a preset threshold value.

The disclosure relates to augmented reality devices and methods for operating such devices. A waveguide with a diffractive optical elements-based architecture for an augmented reality device is provided. The waveguide includes a light in-coupling zone, a light expanding zone, and a light out-coupling zone. Each zone includes its own set of diffractive optical elements performing the light in-couple, light expand and light out-couple function. There are further provided an augmented reality display device and augmented reality glasses based on the waveguide with the diffractive optical elements-based architecture.

This work relates to a geometric-phase metasurface combined with a fluidic circuit for tuning the properties of the metasurface (especially its diffraction efficiency). We consider two aspects of particular interest: A) Dynamic on-demand diffractive optics (operating in transmission), both as optical elements for altering incident light, and as sensors of the refractive index of a fluid; and B) Transparent, reflective displays. Here the display itself is transmissive, but operates in reflection. One application of dynamic on-demand diffractive optics is to replace the lens array often needed in light field displays.

The utility model discloses projection equipment and a projection system. The projection equipment comprises a laser light source, and a diffractive optical element, a focusing lens and a display element which are sequentially arranged along a light emitting path of the laser light source. Wavelength of laser emitted by each light-emitting area of the laser light source is different, and diffracted light shift phase is increased when the diffractive optical element is designed, so that when laser beams emitted by each light-emitting area are diffracted by the diffractive optical element and then emitted, diffracted light shifts a set angle relative to zero-order light. Therefore, a diffraction light spot and a zero-order light spot which are formed on the display element after emergent light of the diffractive optical element passes through the focusing lens can be separated from each other, the diffraction light spot covers an effective area of the display element, the zero-order light spot is not overlapped with the display element, and adverse effects of the zero-order light spot on a projected image are avoided.