A microscope unit comprises: a main lens barrel of an imaging optical system; and an illumination lens barrel of an illumination optical system connected to the main lens barrel, the illumination optical system having: a collector lens that collects light that has been irradiated from a light source; a fly-eye lens allowing to be transmitted therethrough light from the collector lens; a first relay lens having lenses that relay light from the fly-eye lens; a field stop that stops down a range of light from the first relay lens; a second relay lens that relays to a beam splitter light from the first relay lens; and the beam splitter guiding at least a part of light incident thereon to the objective lens and allowing to be transmitted therethrough to a side of an imaging sensor at least a part of light incident thereon from the objective lens.

A microscope unit comprises: a main lens barrel of an imaging optical system, the main lens barrel being configured capable of being fitted with an imaging sensor and an objective lens; and an illumination lens barrel of an illumination optical system, the illumination lens barrel being connected to the main lens barrel and configured capable of being fitted with a light source, the illumination lens barrel having: a first lens barrel configured capable of being fitted with the light source; and an intermediate lens barrel connecting the main lens barrel and the first lens barrel, and a field stop of light irradiated from the light source being disposed more inwardly than an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate lens barrel is.

An apparatus for combining a plurality of coherent laser beams includes a splitting device for splitting an input laser beam into the plurality of coherent laser beams, a plurality of phase setting devices for adjusting a respective phase of one of the coherent laser beams, and a beam combining device for combining the coherent laser beams, which emanate from a plurality of grid positions of a grid arrangement, to form at least one combined laser beam. The beam combining device has a microlens arrangement with exactly one microlens array for forming the at least one combined laser beam.

An imaging device may code light, passing through an imaging optical lens arranged in a multi-lens array (MLA), and may transmit the light to a sensing element, and the sensing element may restore an image based on sensed information.

According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element, a light-shielding layer disposed to overlap a gap between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element and including a first opening overlapping the first light-emitting element and a second opening overlapping the second light-emitting element, an overcoat layer covering the light-shielding layer, a first micro-lens disposed on the overcoat layer and overlapping the first opening and a second micro-lens disposed on the overcoat layer and overlapping the second opening, and an edge of each of the first micro-lens and the second micro-lens overlaps the light-shielding layer.

An electronic device including: a light guide plate; an imaging unit disposed so as to face the light guide plate and including an image sensor; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed around the imaging unit; and a refractive part interposed at least between the light emitting element and the light guide plate and refracting light emitted from the light emitting element.

Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy directing systems for directing energy of multiple energy domains. Energy relays and energy waveguides are disclosed for directing energy of multiple energy domains, including electromagnetic energy, acoustic energy, and haptic energy. Systems are disclosed for projecting and sensing 4D energy-fields comprising multiple energy domains.

An optical system that produces a digital image of a field of view, comprising: a) a sensor array of light sensors that produces an output signal indicating an intensity of light received by each light sensor; b) one or more optical elements that together project an image of the field of view onto the sensor array, including at least one sectioned optical element comprising a plurality of sections, at least two of the sections differing in one or both of size and shape, each section projecting onto the sensor array an image of only a portion of the field of view, the different sections projecting images of different portions of the field of view to non-overlapping regions of the sensor array.

A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel island regions. Each pixel island region includes effective display regions of at least two pixel units. The distance between the adjacent pixel units in each pixel island region is less than the distance between the adjacent pixel island regions.

A metalens (wavefront control element) according to the present disclosure is a wavefront control element that controls a wavefront of incident light, and includes a plurality of metasurface regions. The plurality of metasurface regions are arranged in an array.