G02B7/181

Optical Element Mounting Method
20220252872 · 2022-08-11 ·

An optical device mounting method for mounting an optical device to a holding mechanism, including a step of designing a shape of the optical device in accordance with a stress expected to be applied to the optical device, such as not to cause the optical device to deform or to inhibit deformation to achieve desired performance.

Optical device

An optical device can deal with a relative difference in thermal expansion coefficient between a reflecting mirror and a mirror supporting member, and can also support the reflecting mirror with a simpler structure than the conventional one. The optical device includes: a reflecting mirror including a reflecting surface to reflect light, and a supported portion disposed on a rear surface and having three supported surfaces arranged with rotational symmetry of 120 degrees around an optical axis, the rear surface being a surface of the reflecting mirror existing on the contrary side to the reflecting surface; a structural member provided on a rear side of reflecting mirror; and three supporting members, each of the three supporting members including a mirror supporting portion connected to and supporting each of the three supported surfaces, and having two ends connected to the structural member.

Mount Pad
20220291480 · 2022-09-15 ·

According to one implementation a mount pad is provided that includes a plurality of arcuate flexure members disposed between and connected to top and bottom plates. According to some implementations a majority or all of the arcuate flexure members have a semi-circular cross-section and are arranged to form a plurality of radially spaced-apart concentric rings. Concave surfaces of the arcuate flexure members face radially inward toward a center of the concentric rings. Circumferential adjacent arcuate flexure members in each of the concentric rings are circumferentially spaced apart from one another so that a gap exists between them. According to some implementations the mount pad further includes a coupling unit prolonging from one of the top and bottom plates, the coupling unit facilitating a connection of the mount pad to a support structure. According to some implementations the mount pad is a monolithic structure. According to some implementations the monolithic structure is made using an additive manufacturing method.

LIGHTWEIGHT OPTICS
20250231328 · 2025-07-17 ·

The present disclosure provides a mirror device comprising a reflector plate having a rear face and a reflective front face, and a core attached to the rear surface of the reflector plate. The core comprises a first plate and a second plate, the first plate being stacked on the second plate, wherein the first plate and second plate are each monolithic and comprise a glass or ceramic. The mirror device further comprises a plurality of first holes formed in the first plate, each first hole formed through the entire thickness of the first plate, and a plurality of second holes formed in the second plate, each second hole formed through the entire thickness of the second plate, where a mean width of the first holes is less than a mean width of the second holes.

Optical wavelength conversion device

An optical wavelength conversion device includes an optical wavelength conversion member configured to convert the wavelength of incident light; a heat dissipation member which is more excellent in heat dissipation than the optical wavelength conversion member; and a joint portion which joins the optical wavelength conversion member and the heat dissipation member together. The optical wavelength conversion member includes a plate-shaped ceramic fluorescent body and a reflecting film disposed on a heat dissipation member-side surface of the ceramic fluorescent body. The joint portion has a thermal conductivity of 120 W/mK or more. The joint portion has a melting point of 240° C. or higher.

CONCAVE MIRROR
20220082790 · 2022-03-17 ·

To mount a concave mirror to a structure with a simple configuration. The concave mirror includes a concave mirror body made of glass, at least one bracket formed of material with light-impermeable properties, and an adhesive having ultraviolet-curing properties to bond the bracket to an underside reflective surface of the concave mirror body, wherein the bracket includes a bonded surface portion to be bonded to an underside reflective surface through the adhesive, the underside reflective surface being a surface of the concave mirror body opposite to a reflective surface thereof, and a plurality of through holes, each of the through holes having one end facing the bonded surface portion and another end facing an outside surface that is a surface opposite to the bonded surface portion, each of the through holes passing through between the bonded surface portion and the outside surface.

Closed loop controller for laser beam scanning display with high tolerance to mirror resonance frequency variation

The techniques disclosed herein provide methods, devices, and systems to compensate the drive waveform to a slow-scan mirror in a laser beam scanning (LBS) display device. The slow-scan controller generates the drive waveform, which is combined with feedback and coupled to the input of a notch filter in the control loop. Ripple in the slow-scan mirror trajectory, which occurs as a consequence of mismatches between the notch frequency of the notch filter and the resonance of the slow-scan mirror, is effectively suppressed in real time by an adaptive notch compensator. Consequently, the described compensation scheme allows for relaxed notch filter design criteria with high tolerance and mitigation of ripple is achieved at reduced cost. The parameters, logic and blocks of the adaptive notch compensator scheme may be time-domain or frequency domain solutions that are implemented, in hardware, software or combinations thereof.

ACTUATOR
20220066132 · 2022-03-03 ·

An actuator includes a swing portion swingable about a first axis orthogonal to a central axis extending vertically and about a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and intersecting the central axis. An angle detector includes a pair of first angle detection elements above a non-magnetic structure and extending in the second axis direction with the first axis interposed therebetween when viewed from the central axis direction, and a pair of second angle detection elements extending in the first axis direction with the second axis interposed therebetween. Each of the first angle detection elements and each of the second angle detection elements include a columnar magnetic structure between the swing portion and the non-magnetic structure in the central axis direction, and a detection coil along the outer periphery of the magnetic structure.

HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANEL, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE

A honeycomb sandwich panel having an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient smaller than an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient obtained by using carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is provided. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes: a first skin being a plate material made of a low expansion metal being a metal having an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient smaller than an absolute value of thermal expansion coefficient of CFRP; a second skin being a plate material made of the low expansion metal and arranged to face the first skin; and a core made of CFRP or the low expansion metal, being bonded to the first skin and the second skin and including a plurality of tubular cells each having a hexagonal cross section, the tubular cells being formed adjacently to each other.

Bi-metal optical mount
11150439 · 2021-10-19 · ·

An optomechanical device having an interface that is mounted to another interface wherein the two interfaces are made of materials having the same or similar coefficients of thermal expansion and within the optomechanical device is an interface that is designed to compensate for the second mechanical component that is made of materials having the same or similar coefficients of thermal expansion as the optic or photonic device or instrument being held or controlled altogether with a fully constrained set of slip planes making for an optical mechanical device consisting of two or more materials that have coefficients of thermal expansion that are suitably matched to the materials it is being mounted to and the materials it is holding or controlling.