A phosphor layer composition, phosphor member, light source device, and projection device are provided that are capable of restraining reflection or scattering at interfaces between phosphor particles and a binder to improve the excitation-light absorption by, and the external quantum efficiency of, the phosphor particles. The present invention, in an aspect thereof, is directed to a phosphor layer composition including: phosphor particles 111 absorbing excitation light and emitting prescribed fluorescence; and a binder 112 composed of a translucent gel containing a metal alkoxide or a mixture of a metal alkoxide and a metal oxide, wherein the phosphor particles 111 are dispersed in the binder 112, and the phosphor particles 111 and the binder 112 differ in refractive index by 0.3 or less.

A method and resulting device that mimics the light scattering properties of a random structural pattern using microspheres.

Provided are an antireflection film having a high antireflection effect in a broad band, including, on a substrate, in this order: a particle layer containing particles; and a layer having a textured structure containing aluminum oxide as a main component, in which the particle layer has an aluminum oxide textured structure between the particles, and an optical member and an optical apparatus each using the antireflection film.

The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

Embodiments described herein relate to flat optical devices and methods of forming flat optical devices. One embodiment includes a substrate having a first arrangement of a first plurality of pillars formed thereon. The first arrangement of the first plurality of pillars includes pillars having a height h and a lateral distance d, and a gap g corresponding to a distance between adjacent pillars of the first plurality of pillars. An aspect ratio of the gap g to the height h is between about 1:1 and about 1:20. A first encapsulation layer is disposed over the first arrangement of the first plurality of pillars. The first encapsulation layer has a refractive index of about 1.0 to about 1.5. The first encapsulation layer, the substrate, and each of the pillars of the first arrangement define a first space therebetween. The first space has a refractive index of about 1.0 to about 1.5.

A transparent layered element includes two transparent external layers having substantially the same refractive index and each having a smooth external main surface, and a central layer intermediate between the external layers, the central layer including at least one transparent layer of refractive index different from that of the external layers or a metal layer. All the contact surfaces between two adjacent layers of the layered element, one of the two layers of which is a metal layer, or that are two transparent layers of different refractive indices, being textured and parallel to one another, the diffuse light reflection of the layered element on the side of at least one of the external layers having at least one maximum in a direction different from the direction of specular reflection. In addition, the surface of the layered element is divided into a plurality of pixels of same size.

Provided are a protective sheet and a spectacle lens including at least one dye selected from the group consisting of a dye represented by Formula (1) and a dye represented by Formula (2), and application thereof. In Formula (1), R.sup.71 to R.sup.74 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, or the like. In Formula (2), R.sup.21 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, or the like, R.sup.22 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, or the like, and at least one of R.sup.21 or R.sup.22 is an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms. n represents 0 or 1, and m represents an integer of 1 to 5. ##STR00001##

Described are high energy light blocking compounds and ophthalmic devices containing the compounds. In particular, described are hydroxybiphenyl benzotriazole structures with polymerizable functionality that block high energy light and are visibly transparent. The hydroxybiphenyl benzotriazole structures can be incorporated into ophthalmic devices, such as hydrogel contact lenses, to protect eyes from high energy light radiation.

An athermal optical waveguide structure such as an optical add drop multiplexer (OADM) or the like is fabricated by a method that includes forming a lower cladding layer on a substrate. A waveguiding core layer is formed on the lower cladding layer. An upper cladding layer is formed on the waveguiding core layer and the lower cladding layer a sol-gel material. The sol-gel material includes an organically modified siloxane and a metal oxide. A thermo-optic coefficient of the sol-gel material is adjusted by curing the sol-gel material for a selected duration of time at a selected temperature such that the thermo-optic coefficient of the sol-gel material compensates for a thermo-optic coefficient of at least the waveguiding core layer such that an effective thermo-optic coefficient of the optical waveguide structure at a specified optical wavelength and over a specified temperature range is reduced.