A thermally actuated adaptive optic includes a base, a reflector, and a plurality of actuators coupled therebetween. The reflector has a light-receiving front surface, and a back surface facing the base. Each actuator includes a bracket rigidly bonded to the reflector at a perimeter of the reflector, and an inner rod and an outer rod. Each rod is rigidly connected between the bracket and the base, with the inner rod being closer to a center of the reflector. The length of each rod is temperature dependent. In another adaptive optic, the rods are instead bonded directly to the reflector. This adaptive optic may be modified to implement an integrally formed, thermally actuated support. The disclosed adaptive optics are suitable for use in laser systems, allow for significant cost savings over piezoelectric devices, provide a reflective area free of surface-figure perturbations caused by the actuator-interfaces, and are relatively simple to manufacture.

A weight compensating device includes a stator and a translator. The translator is movable relative to the stator along a movement axis. The translator includes a first permanent magnet arrangement with an axial magnetization. The stator includes a second permanent magnet arrangement radially surrounding the first permanent magnet arrangement. The stator includes a third permanent magnet arrangement that is coaxially below the first permanent magnet arrangement and that has an axial magnetization aligned in inverse fashion with respect to the axial magnetization of the first permanent magnet arrangement. The stator includes a magnetic body arrangement that is coaxially above the first permanent magnet arrangement. The first permanent magnet arrangement, the second permanent magnet arrangement, the third permanent magnet arrangement and the magnetic body arrangement form a magnetic unit and, in interaction with one another, form a compensating force that counteracts the weight acting on the translator.

A weight compensating device includes a stator and a translator. The translator is movable relative to the stator along a movement axis. The translator includes a first permanent magnet arrangement with an axial magnetization. The stator includes a second permanent magnet arrangement radially surrounding the first permanent magnet arrangement. The stator includes a third permanent magnet arrangement that is coaxially below the first permanent magnet arrangement and that has an axial magnetization aligned in inverse fashion with respect to the axial magnetization of the first permanent magnet arrangement. The stator includes a magnetic body arrangement that is coaxially above the first permanent magnet arrangement. The first permanent magnet arrangement, the second permanent magnet arrangement, the third permanent magnet arrangement and the magnetic body arrangement form a magnetic unit and, in interaction with one another, form a compensating force that counteracts the weight acting on the translator.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a micromachined mirror assembly. The micromachined mirror assembly includes a micro mirror configured to tilt around an axis and a first and a second torsion beam each having a first and a second end. The second end of the first torsion beam and the second end of the second torsion beam are mechanically coupled to the micro mirror along the axis. The micromachined mirror assembly also includes a first DC voltage applied to the first end of the first torsion beam and a second DC voltage, different from the first DC voltage, is applied to the first end of the second torsion beam.

A mirror unit includes a mirror device includes a support portion and a movable mirror portion configured to be movable with respect to the support portion, and a package including a light incident opening and accommodating and holding the mirror device such that light incident from the light incident opening is able to be incident on the movable mirror portion. The package is provided with a ventilation port communicating an inside and an outside of the package.

A mirror unit includes a light scanning device and a package. The package has a main body portion provided with a light incident opening that opens on one side in a predetermined direction, a protrusion provided on a top surface of the main body portion, and a flat plate-shaped window member disposed on the top surface on an inward side of the protrusion and covering the light incident opening. An end surface of the protrusion on the one side is positioned more to the one side than the window member. A thickness of the protrusion is smaller than a height of the protrusion from the top surface. When viewed in any direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a length of a part covered by the protrusion in the window member is longer than a length of a part exposed from the protrusion in the window member.

A bijective coded aperture system uses mirror system with a multitude of reflector elements attached to an absorbing, such as black, substrate. Each of the reflector elements is independently placed at a different angle with respect to each other in such a manner that the image of the scene is replicated several times at the focal plane and on the image sensor. Moreover, these replicated images may be overlapping. An image processor can then execute reconstruction methods of the image to faithfully represent the scene.

A bijective coded aperture system uses mirror system with a multitude of reflector elements attached to an absorbing, such as black, substrate. Each of the reflector elements is independently placed at a different angle with respect to each other in such a manner that the image of the scene is replicated several times at the focal plane and on the image sensor. Moreover, these replicated images may be overlapping. An image processor can then execute reconstruction methods of the image to faithfully represent the scene.

A laser beam alignment system includes at least one mirror with a surface pattern configured to receive and reflect a laser beam, at least one detector configured to detect a deflected portion of a laser beam from the mirror, and at least one controller configured to communicate with the at least one mirror and the at least one detector and to control the mirror position on the basis of the deflected portion of the laser beam.

A device for realizing surface cleaning of an optical element by ion wind and electrostatic coupling, comprising a fixing support, an optical element, an ion wind system, an electrostatic adsorption system, and a particle contaminant storage box; the ion wind system comprises an air knife, an ion bar, an ion bar support, a connecting sheet, and a three-degree-of-freedom combined displacement stage; the electrostatic adsorption system comprises rod-shaped electrodes, electrode fixing supports and a manual displacement stage; the particle contaminant storage box is connected to a working surface by means of storage box supports, and an included angle between the particle contaminant storage box and the storage box supports is 135 degrees.