226 results about "Flat lens" patented technology

A tunable super-lens (TSL) for nanoscale optical sensing and imaging of bio-molecules and nano-manufacturing utilizes negative-index materials (NIMs) that operate in the visible or near infrared light. The NIMs can create a lens that will perform sub-wavelength imaging, enhanced resolution imaging, or flat lens imaging. This new TSL covers two different operation scales. For short distances between the object and its image, a near-field super-lens (NFSL) can create or enhance images of objects located at distances much less than the wavelength of light. For the far-zone, negative values are necessary for both the permittivity ε a permeability μ. While well-structured periodic meta-materials, which require delicate design and precise fabrication, can be used, metal-dielectric composites are also candidates for NIMs in the optical range. The negative-refraction in the composite films can be made by using frequency-selective photomodification.

A planar lenses for integrated optics applications, in particular for use in optical touch screen sensors are disclosed. The disclosed planar lenses include a slab waveguide and an optical waveguide, preferably formed in unitary fashion, wherein the slab waveguide has a curved end face to focus light into or out of the optical waveguide, and wherein at least one additional lens is included within the slab waveguide. In one aspect of this disclosure, the additional lens is a diverging lens. In a second aspect the additional lens is a converging lens. The additional lens may match the acceptance angle of the optical waveguide to the curved end face of the slab waveguide. Alternatively, it may improve the tolerance of the planar lens to design or assembly errors and/or temperature variations. Preferably, the planar lenses are composed of a photo-patternable polymer, and the additional lenses are composed of air.

The invention discloses an annular aperture ultrathin optical imaging system which can be used for a portable small-scale camera, a mobile phone lens or other civil optical imaging systems. The annular aperture ultrathin optical imaging system comprises a flat lens and a compensator; and the clear aperture is annular. The front surface of the flat lens is a plane reflector, while the rear surface has four coaxial annular high-order aspheric reflectors on the same substrate; and air is adopted as a light transmission medium. The system can obviously reduce the size and the weight while keeping good imaging quality and provide an effective method for improving a conventional refraction system. Compared with a common small-scale lens, the lens has the characteristics of good imaging quality, large numerical aperture, simple assembly and adjustment, low cost, portability, easy processing, suitability for large-batch production and the like.

The planar lens of the invention having a flat glass substrate, in which a refractive index distribution is formed by diffusing a refractive index-increasing component into the flat glass substrate in a substantially hemispherical form or semicylinder form, wherein the refractive index-increasing component is silver, and the flat glass substrate comprises Li as an alkali metal that is subject to an ion exchange with the silver.

An imaging lens (LN) includes at least one lens block (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes parallel flat lens substrates (LS) formed of different materials, and a lens (L). In the imaging lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) positioned closest to an object includes a first lens substrate (LS1) and a lens (L[LS1o], and a prescribed conditional expression is satisfied.

A planar lens capable of compensating for chromatic aberration and which is easy to manufacture and enables easy assembling of optical pickups and a method for fabricating the planar lens are provided. The planar lens includes a transparent substrate with a lens cavity in a surface of the transparent substrate, and a lens element formed in the lens cavity with a first refracting surface in contact with the bottom of the lens cavity and a second diffracting surface having a diffraction grating opposite to the first refracting surface.

The invention provides a multi-row multi-column equivalent negative refractive index flat lens comprising a pair of glass windows respectively having two optical surfaces, and an optical waveguide assembly arranged between the two glass windows; the optical waveguide assembly comprises a multi-row multi-column rectangular optical waveguide array obliquely arranged in 45 degrees, and an edge optical waveguide arranged on the periphery of the rectangular optical waveguide array; single rectangular optical waveguides in each row and/or column of the rectangular optical waveguide array are same insizes. The flat lens is reconstructed by special precision microstructures; the multi-row multi-column rectangular optical waveguide array and the peripheral triangle optical waveguide enable two-dimension or three dimensional light sources to directly realize true holographic image in the air in real images.

The invention discloses a measurement system and a measurement method for measuring the height of the surface of a micro object on the basis of a digital fringe projection technology. The measurement method comprises the following steps of: firstly, constructing a three-dimensional measurement system, wherein the three-dimensional measurement system comprises a working platform, a television microscope lens, a lens assembly and a mini projector, the television microscope lens is vertical to the working platform to be placed downward; a lens of the mini projector is downward and is placed on the same plane with the television microscope lens, the lens assembly is arranged in front of the lens of the mini projector and is used for focusing a sine fringe image projected by the mini projector and the object to be measured is placed on the working platform; and carrying out calibration on the three-dimensional measurement system to obtain a final phase of the surface of the object to be measured so as to obtain the height of the surface of the object to be measured. According to the invention, the height condition of the surface of the object to be measured is accurately obtained; the measurement system and the measurement method have high utilizing value and high accuracy, is convenient to measure and install and has low cost; and a measurement result is specifically shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4.

The present invention relates to different embodiments of lighting fixtures, such as high bay lighting fixtures, comprising one or more improved features. Some of these features include the direct mounting of emitters on a heat sink and/or the use of a template-like board for providing an electrical connection between emitters. These features can improve heat dissipation from the emitters and simplify fabrication. In other embodiments, expensive lens optics of prior art SSL fixtures can be replaced with a flat lens and reflector in order to produce a fixture having a satisfactory spacing criterion.

The invention relates to a method for separating and picking up flat lenses, and a device thereof, which are used for solving the separation and pickup problems of the flat lenses in the production process of filter-type flat lenses through a rectangular rolling circle method. The method makes flat lenses on the uppermost layer of a lens tube exceeding the position of outlet plane of the upper end of the lens tube, provides vacuum suction force so as to pick up and fix the flat lenses, simultaneously enables the flat lens to shift horizontally; and the device comprises a lens electing device, a lens pickup device and a lens horizontal shifting device.

An in-line regulator for dynamic coaxial regulating of main laser beam from laser system and space filter is disclosed. The main laser beam emitted by laser system sequentially passes compensating lens, polarizing plate, polarization analyzer, self-collimating planar lens and space filter to full-reflector, then is reflected through space filter and self-collinating planar lens to the polarization analyzer, then it is turned by 45 deg, and finally passes through attenuator, imaging object lens, orifice light diaphragm and microscopic object lens to detector connected with display.

The invention provides a planar lens unit based on dielectric material, a planar lens and a preparation method. The unit comprises an antenna made of dielectric material with high refractivity, a silica filling layer, a silver mirror and a silica substrate. The planar lens comprises the planar lens units distributed about the center, and the antennas of the planar lens units are distributed on the axis X regularly and are distributed symmetric about the axis y when y equals to zero. The method includes firstly, covering the silica substrate with a layer of silver film, and covering the surface of the silver film with the filling layer of silica and a silicon film through electron beam vapor deposition continuously; secondly, coating the silicon film with photoresist, and completing the etching and developing of the photoresist by the electron beam exposure technology; thirdly, etching the silicon film by the reactive ion beam etching technology; fourthly, performing peeling to obtain the finished nano silicon antenna. Thus, the focusing efficiency can be improved by one order of magnitude, and the high practical application value is provided.

A zoom lens includes: a front group including a plurality of movable lens groups; and a rear group that is provided on an image side of the front group and that includes a negative lens and a positive lens. The positive lens has a flat lens surface on its image side, and is tiltable about a spherical center of its object side lens surface that is convex on the object side. When a lens system is inclined, the positive lens is tilted in relation to the optical axis of the lens system based on: a focal length of the overall lens system; an angle of the optical axis of the lens system after being inclined in relation to the optical axis before being inclined; a distance between the image side lens surface of the positive lens and the image plane; and a refractive index of the positive lens.

Designs of display devices using one or more planar lenses are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, a planar lens includes at least a substrate and a plurality of nanosized studs. Depending on the implementation, the objects may be in different heights, spaced evenly or unevenly and oriented towards or outwards a focal point. When the planar lens is used with a lightguide guide that receives an image projected from a source, the image can be seen in the lightguide guide enlarged through the planar lens, provided that nanosized studs are properly structured, sized, oriented and arranged in a predefined pattern.

Disclosed herein is a plane lens sheet using a light transmission rate difference, which is used for stereoscopic printing for a lenticular system and an integral photography method and has a plane surface while innumerable lenses are arranged on the surface there so that it looks like a flat transparent sheet, improves the quality of stereoscopic products employing the lens sheet and facilitates the maintenance of the stereoscopic products. The plane lens sheet includes: a concave lens layer 20 and a convex lens layer 30 laminated on each other in such a manner as the adhere to each other with the same radius curvature to form a superposed lens sheet, the concave lens layer 20 and the convex lens layer 30 being made of a transparent synthetic resin and having the same lens pitch and different light transmission rates; a thin flat transparent upper protection layer 10 formed on the concave lens layer 20; a transparent layer 50 formed below the convex lens layer 30 for forming the focal length of the laminated concave lens layer and convex lens layer; and a thin flat transparent lower protection layer 70 formed below the transparent layer 50.

The present invention has an object, in a near-field optical probe having a microscopic aperture to generate and/or scatter a near field, to obtain a near-field optical probe easy to be made in an array which increases the intensity of a near field to be generated and/or scattered and is adapted for use as an optical memory head.

This near-field optical probe is arranged with a planar lens having microscopic lens on a flat surface substrate having an inverted conical or pyramidal hole formed therethrough such that its apex is made as the microscopic aperture, wherein a light source is further arranged thereon to introduce light to the planar lens. Because the arrangement is made such that the planar lens has a focal point positioned at the microscopic aperture, the light given by the light source can be efficiently collected to the microscopic aperture. Also, the above structure can be arrayed and mass produced using a silicon process, thus being adapted for use as an optical memory head.

The invention discloses an electric control zooming plane lens which comprises a first electric control zooming liquid crystal lens, a second electric control zooming liquid crystal lens and a super lens with a fixed focal length which are cascaded. In a state of not applying an electric field, the arrangement direction of molecules in the first liquid crystal layer of the first liquid crystal lens is parallel to the overall mirror surface direction of the first liquid crystal lens, the arrangement direction of the molecules in the second liquid crystal layer of the second liquid crystal lensis parallel to the overall mirror surface direction of the second liquid crystal lens, and the arrangement directions of the molecules in the first liquid crystal layer and the molecules in the secondliquid crystal layer are perpendicular to each other. The electric field is applied to the first liquid crystal layer and the second liquid crystal layer respectively, and the molecular arrangement state of the first liquid crystal layer and the second liquid crystal layer is adjusted by adjusting the electric field intensity. The plane lens is the super lens with a fixed focal length. The planarlens group has an electric control zooming function and is insensitive to polarization based on the combination of the liquid crystal lens and the super lens which are arranged in a cascaded manner,a high-quality imaging effect is achieved and the practical application of the planar lens technology is promoted.

The invention provides a non-chromatic-dispersion infrared gas sensor capable of lowering detection lower limit. The sensor comprises an infrared transmitter, a first transmission window, an air chamber, a second transmission window, an infrared sensor and a control module, and the first transmission window and the second transmission window are arranged to be identical or different planar lenses, convex lenses, concave lenses or Fresnel lenses; the infrared detector comprises at least one reference channel and at least one measurement channel group, each measurement channel group comprises at least two measurement channels for detecting same predetermined gas, a plurality of light filters are arranged between the reference channels as well as the measurement channels and the second transmission window, and the light filters adopted by each measurement channel in a same measurement channel group are uniform in specification. By adopting the non-chromatic-dispersion infrared gas sensor and a detection method, collection amount of current signals or voltage signals within unit time is increased effectively, gas concentration detection lower limit is lowered, and resolution is improved.