117 results about "Photon conversion" patented technology

Embodiments disclosed herein provide optical systems utilizing photon conversion materials in conjunction with a light source and an LED. An LED can be positioned in a cavity defined by a base and one or more sidewalls. Phosphors can be disposed on the entrance face of a lens between the entrance face to the lens body and the LED so that light emitted from the LED will be incident on the phosphor and down converted before entering the lens body through the entrance face. The lens can positioned so that the phosphors are separated from the LED by a gap.

A method of diagnostic imaging in a shortened acquisition time for obtaining a reconstructed diagnostic image of a portion of a body of a human patient who was administered with dosage of radiopharmaceutical substance radiating gamma rays, using SPECT. The method comprises acquiring photons emitted from said portion of the body, by means of a detector capable of converting the photons into electric signals, wherein the total time of photon acquiring is substantially shorter than the clinically acceptable acquisition time; processing said electric signals by a position logic circuitry and thereby deriving data indicative of positions on said photon detector crystal, where the photons have impinged the detector; and reconstructing an image of a spatial distribution of the pharmaceutical substance within the portion of the body by iteratively processing said data.

An X-ray apparatus is provided for acquisition of images containing spectral information. An X-ray source and a collimator having multiple slits are operable together with a set of line detectors, the line detectors including linear arrays of photon counting channels. Each of the channels includes a photon conversion channel element which is operable to convert photons to electric pulses. A plurality of pulse counters are operable to count pulses in a plurality of different ranges of pulse strength, where the strength of a pulse depends on the energy of the photon. Further, an arrangement is included for an energy subtracting operation.

A system for diagnostically evaluating the health of tissue within the fundus of an eye includes a f s laser source, an adaptive optical assembly, an imaging unit, and a computer. The adaptive optical assembly focuses a laser beam to a focal point in the fundus of the eye, and scans the fundus tissue according to a predetermined scanning pattern. Illumination of anisotropic tissue within the fundus, such as the photoreceptors and the Henle-fiber layer, induces a Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) response. Red photons, with a wavelength (λ) of about 880 nm, are converted to blue photons, with a wavelength of λ/2, through the process of photon conversion. An imaging unit senses the blue photon return light, and uses the return light to generate an image of the fundus. The computer processes the image, and compares it to a template of healthy tissue to evaluate the health of the imaged tissue.

A high-speed optical communications cell is integrated at the interior of a two-dimensional imaging array. The combined receiver and imager carries out both photodetection (converting photons to electrons) and circuit functions (e.g. amplifying and integrating the signals from the photodetectors). The high-speed receiver cell comprises a photodetector and a high-speed amplification circuit, providing an electrical output which can follow a rapidly varying optical signal falling on the photodetector. The imaging array comprises an array of photodetectors and readout circuits, providing an electrical representation of the variation of light with position across the receiver surface. The presence of an imaging array surrounding the communications receiver, and in the same plane as it, allows a single optical path to be used for source acquisition and tracking as well as for data reception

A solar power plant (10) capable of generating electricity comprising a light pipe carrying highly concentrated solar light (19), a hot reservoir (24), a cold reservoir (20), and a plurality of large-scale solid-state nano-structured photonic crystals (12) that are capable of recycling out-of-band photons with transition energies associated with a photovoltaic cell (13) into photons with in-band energies associated with the same photovoltaic cell (13) when photon energy is subjected to propagation through a thermal temperature gradient that is held across a suitably nano-structured photonic crystal (12). The input thermal photons from the hot thermal reservoir (24) are shifted in energy to the optimal photovoltaic cell energy for electron-hole pair generation by work that is expanded by the heat engine to convert said input photons into phonons and then back to photons again at a new wavelength through a process of phonon rethermalization occurring inside the nano-structured photonic crystal (12).

The present disclosure relates to a generally-applicable measurement technique based on coherent quantum enhancement effects and provides embodiments with nonlinear optics. The technique utilizes parametric nonlinear processes where the information-carrying electromagnetic quanta in a number of electromagnetic modes are converted phase coherently to signature quanta in a single mode or a few modes. The phase coherence means that while the quanta before conversion may have unequal or uncertain phase values across the modes, the signature quanta converted from those different modes have the (near) uniform phase. This can lead to significant increase in the signal to noise ratio in detecting weak signal buried in strong background noise. Applications can be found in remote sensing, ranging, biological imaging, field imaging, target detection and identification, covert communications, and other fields that can benefit from improved signal to noise ratios by using the phase coherent effect.

An optical sampling method and apparatus use a probe pulse source of a predetermined optical wavelength range, e.g., 1560 nm, to sample incoming optical pulses in approximately the same wavelength range. The probe pulse source is frequency-doubled e.g., using a frequency doubler such as a nonlinear PPLN crystal, to obtain an intermediate second harmonic which may be filtered with a 780 nm bandpass filter to eliminate at least source frequency noise background. The filtered intermediate second harmonic is then mixed with the user input signal using an optional polarizing beam splitter and a dichroic beam splitter. The mixed signal is sent to a sum frequency generating (SFG) nonlinear crystal, e.g., a PPLN crystal, where the resulting frequency is near the third harmonic. The output from the SFG PPLN crystal may be filtered using a bandpass 515 nm filter to remove unwanted wavelengths and processed to measure/sense the near third harmonic content using a photomultiplier tube (PMT). Beyond the PMT, the output may be sent to a microprocessor for analysis and display on a cathode ray oscilloscope as necessary. 80-85% power conversion efficiency in the frequency doubler, a 60 or 65% photon conversion efficiency in the sampler and handling of 600+ GHz bandwidths, as well as background noise reduction are possible by using the invention.

The invention provides a light conversion enhanced photocatalysis composite material and a preparation method thereof. The light conversion enhanced photocatalysis composite material is prepared according to the main principle that: a photocatalysis film layer is further compounded on the surface of a transparent infrared conversion core layer by adopting a physical-chemical method, the photocatalysis response spectral intensity of the photocatalysis material is remarkably enhanced by utilizing the control function of a transparent infrared conversion light film layer to the solar incident light spectrum energy distribution and an efficiency coupling energy transfer function between the transparent infrared conversion light film layer and the photocatalysis film layer, and the photon conversion efficiency and the solar utilization efficiency of the photocatalysis material are improved. The novel light conversion enhanced photocatalysis composite material has the advantages of compact structure, stable property, high photon conversion efficiency and the like, can adapt to different solar illumination conditions, can be used for fully converting and utilizing solar energy, and has potential application to the fields of direct catalysis decomposition on pure water to produce hydrogen by solar light, photocatalytic degradation to organic pollutants, organism photosynthesis and thelike.

A molecular system is provided for electric field activated switches, such as optical switches. The molecular system has an electric field induced band gap change that occurs via a molecular conformation change, based on a rotor/stator construction of the molecular system, involving a rotating portion (rotor) connected between two stationary portions (stators). Nanometer-scale reversible optical switches are thus provided that can be assembled easily to make a variety of optical devices, including optical displays.

Described herein are pressure sensitive adhesive type of wavelength conversion tapes that are easy-to-apply to a solar harvesting device using an adhesive layer. The pressure sensitive adhesive type of wavelength conversion tape comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer comprises one, or multiple, luminescent dyes that convert photons of a particular wavelength to a different more desirable wavelength. The adhesive layer is designed to adhere to the light incident surface of a solar harvesting device such as a solar cell, solar panel, or photovoltaic device, to improve the efficiency of the device.

The invention discloses an aluminate red fluorescent powder and a preparation method thereof, wherein, the aluminate red fluorescent powder has the chemical components of SrAl(12-2x)MnxMgxO19, and 0.06<=x<=0.6. The aluminate red fluorescent powder is a new photon conversion material coated on an ultraviolet or blue light semiconductor chip, the excitation wavelength of the powder is 460nm, the emission peak wavelength is 665nm, and the excitation and emission properties are suitable for the requirement of packaging high-color gamut white light LEDs.

A radiation counting device is provided that includes a scintillator, a pixel circuit, and an analog-to-digital conversion circuit. In the radiation counting device, the scintillator generates a photon when radiation is incident. In the radiation counting device, the pixel circuit converts the photon into charge, stores the charge over a predetermined period, and generates an analog voltage in accordance with the amount of stored charge. In the radiation counting device, the analog-to-digital conversion circuit converts the analog voltage into a digital signal in a predetermined quantization unit less than the analog voltage generated from the one photon.

Microelectronic image sensor array device comprising a plurality of elementary cells laid out according to an array and each provided with at least one photosensitive zone for capturing photon(s) and converting photon(s) into electron(s), at least one or several of said cells comprising electronic avalanche multiplier means, provided to produce, during cycles known as electron amplification cycles, a greater number of electrons than the number of electrons converted by the photosensitive zone, the device further comprising a control circuit adapted to modulate the amplification gain of each cell individually.

The invention discloses a pixel unit of a CMOS image sensor and a manufacturing method of the pixel unit and belongs to the technical field of semiconductors. The pixel unit comprises a photosensitive diode and a pass transistor set. The pass transistor set comprises a plurality of pass transistors which are connected at the source electrode end and the drain electrode end in parallel respectively. The grid electrode of each pass transistor and an injection area of the photosensitive diode form an overlapping are, wherein the overlapping areas are different in size, so that different transmission efficiencies are achieved. The photosensitive diode is used for conducting photovoltaic conversion so that a photon can be converted into an electron. The pass transistor set is used for achieving the purpose that the pass transistor corresponding to the transmission efficiency is selectively started according to the illuminance of incident light, so that electron transmission is conducted, and therefore the electron is transmitted to the drain electrode end from the source electrode of the pass transistor set and converted into a voltage signal. According to the pixel unit of the CMOS image sensor, the pass transistor, corresponding to the transmission efficiency, of the pass transistor set is selectively started according to the illuminance of incident light, so that electron transmission is conducted, and therefore the index of high sensitivity and the index of high dynamic are achieved.

A system and method for generating electrical power from a heat source utilizing both photonic and thermal conversion are disclosed. Specifically, power is generated by coupling photon converters to thermoelectric pairs in a way such that the thermoelectric pairs gain not only the charge carriers (holes and electrons) generated by the photons absorbed by the photon converters, but also the charge carriers generated by excess heat in the photon converters and an added thermal gradient generated by excess energy in the absorbed photons. Heat exchanger variations for such a system are also disclosed. Specifically, heat exchangers with and without photon emitters are disclosed and variants of refractive indices for heat exchanger systems are disclosed.