An optical microphone includes: a light source; a first optical divider dividing light from the light source into reference light and measurement light; a second optical divider dividing the measurement light into N measurement light beams; a first emitter emitting the N measurement light beams from different positions toward a predetermined space; a first light receiver receiving the N measurement light beams having propagated through the space; a third optical divider dividing the reference light into N reference light beams; N optical couplers coupling the N measurement light beams with the N reference light beams on a one-to-one basis; N optical detectors receiving N coupled light beams and each detecting interference between the measurement light beam and the reference light beam in the corresponding coupled light beam; and a controller controlling directionality of sound pickup by performing signal processing on N detection signals from the N optical detectors.

An optical microphone includes: a light source; a first optical divider dividing light from the light source into reference light and measurement light; a second optical divider dividing the measurement light into N measurement light beams; a first emitter emitting the N measurement light beams from different positions toward a predetermined space; a first light receiver receiving the N measurement light beams having propagated through the space; a third optical divider dividing the reference light into N reference light beams; N optical couplers coupling the N measurement light beams with the N reference light beams on a one-to-one basis; N optical detectors receiving N coupled light beams and each detecting interference between the measurement light beam and the reference light beam in the corresponding coupled light beam; and a controller controlling directionality of sound pickup by performing signal processing on N detection signals from the N optical detectors.

An optical node device including a liquid crystal display device with pixels having a first transistor between a positive-polarity pixel data line and a first holding capacitor with a gate for a row scan signal, a second transistor between a negative-polarity pixel data line and a second holding capacitor with a gate for the row scan signal, a fifth transistor between a pixel electrode and a first source follower circuit where a voltage from the first holding capacitor is input with a gate for a first control signal, and a sixth transistor between the pixel electrode and a second source follower circuit where a voltage from the second holding capacitor is input with a gate for a second control signal turned on alternately with the first control signal. The fifth and sixth transistors have a threshold voltage different from that of other transistors of a first conductivity type.

An optical node device including a liquid crystal display device with pixels having a first transistor between a positive-polarity pixel data line and a first holding capacitor with a gate for a row scan signal, a second transistor between a negative-polarity pixel data line and a second holding capacitor with a gate for the row scan signal, a fifth transistor between a pixel electrode and a first source follower circuit where a voltage from the first holding capacitor is input with a gate for a first control signal, and a sixth transistor between the pixel electrode and a second source follower circuit where a voltage from the second holding capacitor is input with a gate for a second control signal turned on alternately with the first control signal. The fifth and sixth transistors have a threshold voltage different from that of other transistors of a first conductivity type.

An augmented reality display device, which is configured to provide an augmented reality image to an eye of a user, includes a display module and multiple mirror sets. The display module includes a projector and multiple switching elements. The projector provides an original image beam. The switching elements are deposed sequentially on a path of the original image beam. Each of the switching elements reflects or transmits the original image beam. Reflection paths of each ray of the original image beam on the switching elements intersect at one point to generate multiple image beams. The mirror sets are disposed on paths of the image beams. The image beams are reflected at different angles on the mirror sets, and the mirror sets reflect the image beams to the eye.

An augmented reality display device, which is configured to provide an augmented reality image to an eye of a user, includes a display module and multiple mirror sets. The display module includes a projector and multiple switching elements. The projector provides an original image beam. The switching elements are deposed sequentially on a path of the original image beam. Each of the switching elements reflects or transmits the original image beam. Reflection paths of each ray of the original image beam on the switching elements intersect at one point to generate multiple image beams. The mirror sets are disposed on paths of the image beams. The image beams are reflected at different angles on the mirror sets, and the mirror sets reflect the image beams to the eye.

Adaptive communications focal plane arrays that may be implemented in, e.g., a specially-configured camera that can be utilized to receive and/or process information in the form of optical beams are presented. A specialized focal plane array (FPA) having a plurality of optical detectors is utilized, where one or more optical detectors are suppressed such that data is not allowed to be output from the one or more suppressed optical detectors, and only a significantly smaller number or subset of optical detectors receiving optical beams are allowed to output data. In this way, the rate at which data is to be output by an adaptive communications FPA (ACFPA) can be significantly reduced.

Adaptive communications focal plane arrays that may be implemented in, e.g., a specially-configured camera that can be utilized to receive and/or process information in the form of optical beams are presented. A specialized focal plane array (FPA) having a plurality of optical detectors is utilized, where one or more optical detectors are suppressed such that data is not allowed to be output from the one or more suppressed optical detectors, and only a significantly smaller number or subset of optical detectors receiving optical beams are allowed to output data. In this way, the rate at which data is to be output by an adaptive communications FPA (ACFPA) can be significantly reduced.

An optical switching device including: an input unit to which multichannel light beams are redundantly input; a channel tunable optical filter that confirms, from the received multichannel light beams, whether correct input of a channel for an output destination is included; and an optical switch that outputs, to an optical transfer device which is the output destination, any one of the multichannel light beams that includes the channel which has been correctly input.

An optical switching device including: an input unit to which multichannel light beams are redundantly input; a channel tunable optical filter that confirms, from the received multichannel light beams, whether correct input of a channel for an output destination is included; and an optical switch that outputs, to an optical transfer device which is the output destination, any one of the multichannel light beams that includes the channel which has been correctly input.