Methods, systems, and apparatus, for a stray-light testing station. In one aspect, the stray-light testing station includes an illumination assembly including a spatially extended light source and one or more optical elements arranged to direct a beam of light from the spatially extended light source along an optical path to an optical receiver assembly including a lens receptacle configured to receive a lens module and position the lens module in the optical path downstream from the parabolic mirror so that the lens module focuses the beam of light from the spatially extended light source to an image plane, and a moveable frame supporting the optical receiver assembly including one or more adjustable alignment stages to position the optical receiver assembly relative to the illumination assembly such that the optical path of the illumination assembly is within a field of view of the optical receiver assembly.

A vehicle compartment for a vehicle includes a screen through which an occupant can view portions of the environment ambient of said vehicle compartment, at least one panel, adapted to adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment via at least a portion of said screen, a light sensor and a control unit adapted to adjust the panel to thereby adjust the light intensity of light falling into said vehicle compartment in response to a signal issued from the light sensor.

Embodiments disclosed herein facilitates the monitoring of direct ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation exposure by a person via a system having a sensor (such as Lanthanum doped lead zirconate titanate (PLZT) thin-film sensors or other ferroelectric-based sensors) sensitive to UVB radiation. The system beneficially provides current real-time dosage information associated with Vitamin D production by the person as well as real-time indication of safe exposure and/or harmful exposure to current UVB radiation conditions while also, in some embodiments, takes into consideration a person's age, skin type and sensitivity, body surface area exposed.

In one respect, disclosed is a device or system for solar irradiance measurement comprising at least two irradiance sensors deployed outdoors at substantially different angles, such that, by analysis of readings from said irradiance sensors, direct irradiance, diffuse irradiance, and/or global irradiance are determined. In another respect, the disclosed device or system may additionally determine ground-reflected irradiance.

Eyewear having monitoring capability, such as for radiation or motion, is disclosed. Radiation, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, infrared (IR) radiation or light, can be measured by a detector. The measured radiation can then be used in providing radiation-related information to a user of the eyewear. Motion can be measure by a detector, and the measured motion can be used to determine whether the eyewear is being worn.

A method for detecting emitted light from a display screen with a simple configuration and procedure without changing the position of the sensor. A method for detecting emitted light from a display screen of a display apparatus, including: a placement step of placing a photometric part including an optical sensor and a light guide member on a front surface side of the display screen, and a detection step of turning on any area of the display screen, guiding the emitted light from the area to the optical sensor by the light guide member, and detecting the emitted light with the optical sensor without changing the position of the optical sensor.

A device for detecting light intensity, a display screen and a mobile terminal are provided. The device for detecting light intensity includes a controller, and a first photosensitive sensor and a second photosensitive sensor which are electrically coupled to the controller, the first photosensitive sensor and the second photosensitive sensor being spaced apart and located in a same illumination environment, and the controller is configured to, when an external beam illuminates the first photosensitive sensor, perform calculation based on a difference value between illumination parameters of the first photosensitive sensor and the second photosensitive sensor to obtain a light intensity of the external beam.

A material property inspection apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a light source, an irradiation unit, a light receiving unit, a signal detection unit, a material property value input unit, an inspection set value input unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit calculates a relation equation between the material property value from the material property values of the plurality of test pieces and the light intensity of the transmitted light or the reflected light of respective test pieces, calculates the material property value of the inspected object from the light intensity of the transmitted light or the reflected light detected by the signal detection unit and the relation equation, compares the calculated material property value of the inspected object with the inspection set value inputted from the inspection set value input unit, and determines the quality of the inspected object.

The invention relates to a method for determining the thickness of a contaminating layer and/or the type of a contaminating material on a surface (7) in an optical system, in particular on a surface (7) in an EUV lithography system, comprising: irradiating the surface (7) on which plasmonic nanoparticles (8a,b) are formed with measurement radiation (10), detecting the measurement radiation (10a) scattered at the plasmonic nanoparticles (8a,b), and determining the thickness of the contaminating layer and/or the type of the contaminating material on the basis of the detected measurement radiation (10a). The invention also relates to an optical element (1) for reflecting EUV radiation (4), and to an EUV lithography system.

A beam delivery system may include: beam adjusters configured to adjust a divergence angle of a pulse laser beam; a beam sampler configured to separate a part of the pulse laser beam outputted from a first beam adjuster provided at the most downstream among the beam adjusters to acquire a sample beam; a beam monitor configured to receive the sample beam and output a monitored diameter; and a beam delivery controller configured to control the beam adjusters based on the monitored diameter. The beam delivery controller may adjust each of beam adjusters other than the first beam adjuster selected one after another from the most upstream so that the monitored diameter at the beam monitor becomes a predetermined value specific to the beam adjuster, and adjust the first beam adjuster so that the pulse laser beam becomes focused at a position downstream of a target position.