A laser beam irradiation apparatus includes a laser light source, a controller for controlling energy of light generated by the laser source, a first optical system for adjusting a shape of light that has passed through the controller, a scanner for adjusting the direction of light that has passed through the first optical system, and an F-theta lens for reducing a beam that has passed through the scanner.

The invention relates to a hybrid objective with fixed focal length, which has a total of four lenses. Two lenses consist of glass and two lenses consist of plastic. The objective is suitable for use in a LID AR measurement system.

An optical arrangement for a laser beam includes an f-theta lens. The f-theta lens is disposed in a divergent beam path of the optical arrangement in order to focus the laser beam into a focus plane. The focus plane is located at a distance from a focal plane of the f-theta lens.

A projection device according to the present disclosure includes a light emission display panel in which a plurality of pixels including a light emission element are arranged in a matrix shape, a scanning mirror configured to reflect, toward a scanned surface, imaging light emitted from the light emission display panel and performs two-dimensional scanning of the reflected imaging light on the scanned surface, and a projection optical system configured to guide the imaging light from the light emission display panel to the scanning mirror.

A method of joining a razor blade to a blade support to form a razor blade assembly, the method including: directing a laser beam having an adjustable power output at an upper surface of the razor blade; and while advancing the laser beam along the razor blade: a) applying the laser beam at a first power output to the razor blade; b) reducing the first power output of the laser beam to a second power output; and c) applying the laser beam at the second power output to the razor to form a weld area joining the razor blade to the blade support. The weld area may be elongated and may include (i) a ratio of depth:width that is greater than about 2:1, and/or (ii) a ratio of length:width that is greater than about 5:1.

A Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) objective lens having an F # of 2.64 and a 33.6° angular field of view. It is deployed, with a focal plane and scanning system, on an airborne platform for remote sensing applications. Focal length is 9 inches, and the image is formed on a focal plane constituting CCD or CMOS with micro lenses. The lens has, from object to image, three optical element groups with a cold shield/aperture stop. Group 1 has a positive optical power and three optical elements; Group 2 has a positive optical power and four optical elements; Group 3 has a positive optical power and three optical elements. The objective lens is made of two Germanium and Silicon. The lens is both apochromatic and orthoscopic, and corrected for monochromatic and chromatic aberrations over 3.3 to 5.1 micrometers.

Alight scanning apparatus according to the present invention includes a deflecting unit configured to deflect a light flux to scan a scanned surface in a main scanning direction, and an imaging optical system configured to guide the light flux deflected by the deflecting unit to the scanned surface and to have different partial magnifications in the main scanning direction between an on-axis image height and an outermost off-axis image height. A ratio of a reflectivity at a first outermost off-axis deflection point on one side with respect to an on-axis deflection point on a deflecting surface of the deflecting unit to that at the on-axis deflection point, and a ratio of the reflectivity at a second outermost off-axis deflection point on the other side with respect to the on-axis deflection point on the deflecting surface to that at the on-axis deflection point are each appropriately set.

Optical systems including lens assemblies and methods of imaging fields of view using such optical systems are disclosed. An optical system for imaging a two dimensional field includes a first lens assembly, a first scanning mirror, a second lens assembly, and a two dimensional image sensor. The first lens assembly has a first transform function whose output is within 0.1% of f.sub.1*(c.sub.1*θ.sub.1+(1−c.sub.1)*sin(θ.sub.1)) for any ray of light that traverses the first lens assembly from a center of an entrance pupil of the first lens assembly at an angle θ.sub.1 relative to an optical axis of the first lens assembly. f.sub.1 is a focal length of the first lens assembly, and −0.5<c.sub.1<2.

The invention relates to a hybrid objective having a fixed focal length, which has five lenses. The objective is suitable for use in a LIDAR measurement system. Moreover, the use of a bi-aspherical plastic lens for correcting the curvature of the image field and/or astigmatism and/or distortion of an imaging objective is proposed.

The disclosure relates to a Lidar apparatus. The Lidar apparatus includes an area array light source, an emitting lens group, a receiving lens group, and an area array detector, where the area array light source is located in the front focal plane of the emitting lens group, and the area array detector is located in the back focal plane of the receiving lens group; a laser beam emitted from the area array light source is transmitted, through the emitting lens group, to an object to be detected and reflected by the object to be detected, and a reflected laser beam is transmitted to the area array detector through the receiving lens group; and an F-Theta lens is used for each of the emitting lens group and the receiving lens group, and the image height of the F-Theta lens is directly proportional to a field of view, such that angular resolutions of the Lidar apparatus are approximately distributed evenly. The disclosure further relates to a Lidar device and a vehicle. The technical solutions of the Lidar apparatus proposed by the disclosure may implement long-range solid-state Lidar detection with a large field of view and equal angular resolutions.