An optical apparatus 1, including: a deflecting unit 30 configured to deflect an illumination ray from a light source 11 to scan an object 100 and deflect a reflected ray from the object 100; a light guiding unit 20 configured to guide the illumination ray from the light source 11 to the deflecting unit 30 and to guide the reflected ray from the deflecting unit 30 to a light receiving element 53; and an optical system 40 having a plurality of lens surfaces, configured to guide the illumination ray from the deflecting unit 30 to the object 100 and to guide the reflected ray from the object 100 to the deflecting unit 30, wherein a normal at an incident point of the illumination ray on each of the plurality of lens surfaces and the illumination ray are not parallel to each other.

A method for designing freeform surface imaging system comprises: constructing a series of coaxial spherical systems with different optical power (OP) distributions; tilting all optical elements of each coaxial spherical system by a series of angles to obtain a series of off-axis spherical systems; finding all unobscured off-axis spherical systems; and then specifying a system size or structural constraints, and finding a series of compact unobstructed off-axis spherical systems; constructing a series of freeform surface imaging systems based on the series of compact unobstructed off-axis spherical system, and correcting the OP of entire system; improving an image quality of each freeform surface imaging systems and finding an optimal tilt angle of an image surface; and automatically evaluating an image quality of each freeform surface imaging system based on an evaluation metric, and outputting the freeform surface imaging systems that meet a given requirements.

An optical element includes an optical surface for giving an optical effect to a light beam that passes therethrough. The optical surface includes a first region and a second region. The first region and the second region are smoothly continuous with each other. The optical surface has an absolute value of a maximum curvature at a boundary between the first region and the second region. The absolute value of the maximum curvature is smaller than a predetermined value.

Optical scanner and electrophotographic image forming device are provided. The optical scanner includes a light source; and a first optical unit, a deflection apparatus, and an f-θ lens, which are sequentially arranged along a primary optical axis direction of a light beam emitted from the light source. The light beam emitted from the light source is focused onto a scanning target surface after sequentially passing through the first optical unit, the deflection apparatus, and the f-θ lens. Optical scanning directions of the light beam emitted from the light source include a primary scanning direction and a secondary scanning direction which are perpendicular to each other, and along the primary scanning direction, the f-θ lens satisfies following expressions: SAG1>0, SAG2>0, and 0<(SAG1+SAG2)/d<0.8.

An optical scanning device and an electronic imaging apparatus are provided. The optical scanning device includes a light source, a first optical unit, an optical deflector, and an imaging optical system for guiding a light beam deflected by the optical deflector to a scanned surface for imaging. The imaging optical system includes an F-θ lens satisfying fc/fs≤0.6, X1−X1c>0, and X2−X2c>0, where fs is a focal length of the F-θ lens, fc is an fθ coefficient of the F-θ lens; X1 is a distance between a projection of one incident point on the main optical axis and the scanning origin, X2 is a distance between a projection of one exit point on the main optical axis and the scanning origin, X1c is a distance between the central incident point and the scanning origin, and X2c is a distance between the central exit point and the scanning origin.

A laser processing apparatus includes a laser source which generates a laser beam; a scanner unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam from the laser source and which adjusts the optical path of the laser beam from the laser source in a first direction or in a second direction different from the first direction; and a reflector unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit and which reflects the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit, where the reflector unit includes a first sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser adjusted by the scanner unit in the first direction, and a second sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit in a third direction opposite to the first direction.

A laser processing apparatus includes a laser source which generates a laser beam; a scanner unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam from the laser source and which adjusts the optical path of the laser beam from the laser source in a first direction or in a second direction different from the first direction; and a reflector unit disposed in an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit and which reflects the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit, where the reflector unit includes a first sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser adjusted by the scanner unit in the first direction, and a second sub-reflector unit which shifts an optical path of the laser beam adjusted by the scanner unit in a third direction opposite to the first direction.

A pre-objective two-degree-of-freedom galvanometer scanning system including two galvo mirrors (111,112) with an optical relay (120) between the mirrors (111,112) and a microscope objective (130) with a curved image plane (140) is presented. The second galvo mirror (112) is located in the aperture stop before the objective. The optical system enables scanning in both directions over the full, curved field for creating custom refractive structures across the 6.5 mm optical zone of contact lenses using femtosecond micro-modification.

A camera is disclosed. The camera includes an image sensor and a f-theta lens fixed relative to the image sensor. The f-theta lens is configured to direct object light from a scene onto the image sensor. An optical axis of the f-theta lens is offset from an optical center of the image sensor such that the image sensor is configured to capture a field of view having an angular bias relative to the optical axis of the f-theta lens.

The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly. The optical imaging lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens, the second lens, the fifth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens may respectively have a positive focal power or a negative focal power. A combined focal power of the third lens and the fourth lens is a positive focal power. The sixth lens may have a positive focal power. An effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and a combined focal length f34 of the third lens and the fourth lens satisfy: 0.5≤f/f34<1.0.