An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. At least one lens among the first lens to the fifth lens has positive refractive power. The sixth lens may have negative refractive power and an object side and an image side thereof are aspherical wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens has an inflection point. The optical image capturing system has six lenses with refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.

An anamorphic three-element objective lens projects a plurality of beams of different wavelengths and different diameters into an elongated focal spot in a working-plane. In one transverse direction of the lens, the beams are tightly focused with equal beam-waist widths in the working-plane, defining a height of the focal spot. In another transverse direction, the different beams are focused progressively beyond the working-plane such that the beams have a common beam-width in the working-plane, thereby defining a width of the focal spot.

A luminaire includes a phosphor that emits non-coherent, visible light when excited, a laser diode that emits a laser beam to excite the phosphor, and a driver that outputs electrical DC power at or above the voltage level necessary to drive the laser diode. The current output from the driver to the laser diode is modulated with a code, preferably a random generated code. A visible light sensor detects light emitted from the phosphor and provides a feedback signal, which contains the code under normal operation. If the proper code is not detected in the feedback signal, power output to the laser diode is immediately ceased or reduced to a level safe for the human eye.

A Compact and Athermal VNIR/SWIR Spectrometer utilizes a slit, a Mangin lens, a pupil lens adjacent to the diffraction grating, corrector lenses, a beam splitter, field lenses and SWIR and VNIR FPAs. In examples, two corrector lenses are used. Some examples do not utilize field lenses and beam splitter, some examples utilize only the SWIR radiation spectrum. By balancing the powers of the optical elements and Abbe numbers of glasses as well as usage of aspheric surfaces combinations, a monochromatic and polychromatic aberrational correction is achieved; by balancing optical elements refractive indices change with temperature an athermalization is achieved. The overall length of the spectrometer does not exceed 4 inches, and in some examples it is 2.5 inches. A wide field of view and a low F number are obtained with an operating wavelength range from approximately 400 to 2350 nm. The spectrometer is particularly suited to airborne applications.

An optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens arranged in order from a magnified side to a minified side. A sum of refractive powers of the first lens and the second lens is negative, and a sum of refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens is positive. The first lens is a glass lens with a negative refractive power, the second lens is a plastic lens, and the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens are composed of one glass lens with an Abbe number of larger than 60 and two plastic lenses.

A lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side. The lens includes six or less lens elements, and at least four of the six or less lens elements are aspheric lenses. A field of view of the lens is in a range between 100 degrees and 165 degrees, and the second lens group has at least one spherical lens.

A method for cross-band apochromatic correction in a multi-element optical system. In one example, the method includes selecting a set of design wavelengths, determining a set of optical materials that are transmissive at each design wavelength, identifying a system of linear equations that describe the multi-element optical system in terms of a normalized optical power over the set of design wavelengths, generating multiple solutions for the system of linear equations, each solution defining a set of design optical materials selected from the set of optical materials and based at least in part on calculating mean squared difference values for wavelength pair combinations of design wavelengths in the set of design wavelengths, determining a merit value for each solution using a merit function, the merit value based on minimizing the mean squared difference values, ranking the merit values of the multiple solutions, and using at least one solution of the multiple solutions to design the multi-element optical system. In some examples, at least one design wavelength is a SWIR wavelength and at least one design wavelength is a LWIR wavelength.

An optical system images an object region with an optical beam path in an image plane of an image acquisition system. The optical system includes a first optical assembly through which the optical beam path passes and a second optical assembly arranged in the optical beam path on the side of the first optical assembly facing away from the object region. The second optical assembly is a system at least partly compensating longitudinal chromatic aberrations of the first optical assembly occurring in the wavelength range 625 nm850 nm of the light.

An optical filter may include a monolithic substrate. The optical filter may include a first component filter disposed onto a first region of the monolithic substrate. The first component filter may be a near infrared (NIR) bandpass filter. The optical filter may include a second component filter disposed onto a second region of the monolithic substrate. The second component filter may include a red-green-blue (RGB) bandpass filter. A separation between the first component filter and the second component filter may be less than approximately 50 micrometers (m).

A rigid-scope optical system includes: an image-formation optical system that causes an image in each of wavelength bands to be formed in a predetermined imaging device, the wavelength bands including a fluorescence wavelength band and a visible light wavelength band; and a color-separation-prism optical system having a dichroic film that separates an optical path of light to be imaged into an optical path of the visible light wavelength band and an optical path of the fluorescence wavelength band, in which the image-formation optical system causes the respective images to be formed in a fluorescence imaging device and a visible light imaging device, the fluorescence imaging device and the visible light imaging device being disposed to cause an amount of misalignment to correspond to a difference between an optical path length of fluorescence and an optical path length of visible light.