A device has a light guide portion and a light collector portion. The light guide portion is cup shaped. The wall of the cup has a cross section defined by sections of two ellipses disposed in a predefined manner with each other. The light collector portion is also cup-shaped, inverted with reference to the light guide portion, by a section of an ellipse and straight lines defined with reference to the light guide portion. The device radiates an annular illumination at the rim of the cup through total internal reflection of light from an LED, collected by the light collector portion. The device is made of a clear, colourless, substantially transparent material by injection moulding, one example being Polycarbonate. An annular light source system and a fundus camera using such a system are also disclosed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an aspherical mirror for focusing a laser beam in a linear pattern, the aspherical mirror including: a convex surface diffusely reflecting an irradiated laser beam; and a concave surface reflecting the laser beam such that the laser beam is focused at one point, wherein the laser beam reflected from the convex surface forms a long line beam as an angle of reflection with respect to a curvature of the convex surface changes, and the laser beam reflected from the concave surface is focused at one point on the line beam as an angle of reflection with respect to a curvature of the concave surface changes.

A lighting device produces scenic effects including a light source group; a light guide extending along a longitudinal axis and coupled to the light source assembly defining an optical path; a primary mirror arranged along the longitudinal axis facing the light source assembly to reflect the light beam from the light guide; and a secondary mirror facing the primary mirror to reflect the light beam reflected by the primary mirror towards an emission area surrounding the primary mirror, wherein a primary reflecting surface of the primary mirror has at least one first portion having a first hyperbolic shape or a first aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four and a secondary reflecting surface of the secondary mirror has at least one second portion having a second hyperbolic shape or a second aspherical shape of even order and degree equal to or greater than four.

An extreme ultra violet (EUV) light source apparatus includes a metal droplet generator, a collector mirror, an excitation laser inlet port for receiving an excitation laser, a first mirror configured to reflect the excitation laser that passes through a zone of excitation, and a second mirror configured to reflect the excitation laser reflected by the first mirror.

There is herein defined optics (e.g. an array of optics) forming an optical beam to either produce a collimated or diverging/converging beam emerging from a virtual source point to illuminate a hologram. There is also described an optical beam illuminating a reflection hologram from the front and a further configuration where an optical beam combined with a holographic optical element (HOE) minor enables rear illumination of a reflection hologram.

The disclosed optical beam expander may include (1) a monolithic structure including (a) a first nonplanar mirror that receives a first collimated optical beam having a first width and reflects the first collimated optical beam to generate a noncollimated optical beam and (b) a second nonplanar mirror that receives a diverging optical beam and reflects the diverging optical beam to generate a second collimated optical beam having a second width greater than the first width, where the first nonplanar mirror and the second nonplanar mirror are fixed in orientation and position relative to each other and (2) a planar mirror that reflects the noncollimated optical beam from the first nonplanar mirror to provide the diverging optical beam to the second nonplanar mirror. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

An optical sensor system may include a light source. The optical sensor system may include a concentrator component proximate to the light source and configured to concentrate light from the light source with respect to a measurement target. The optical sensor system may include a collection component that includes an array of at least two components configured to receive light reflected or transmitted from the measurement target. The optical sensor system may include may a sensor. The optical sensor system may include a filter provided between the collection component and the sensor.

According to at least one aspect, the present disclosure provides a head-up display device comprising: a housing having a receiving space therein; a display unit disposed over the housing; a light source unit disposed so that a main optical axis is not directed at the display unit; a first reflector reflecting at least some of light emitted from the light source unit towards the display unit; and a diffuser disposed on an optical path of the light source unit reflected from the first reflector to uniformly make light.

An observation device includes an illumination optical system provided on a lower side of an installation position of a multi-well plate, a reflector that reflects light emitted from the illumination optical system, the reflector being provided on an upper side of the installation position, and an observation optical system that condenses the light reflected by the reflector, the observation optical system being provided on the lower side of the installation position. The reflector includes a plurality of curved surfaces where the light emitted from the illumination optical system enters. Each of the plurality of curved surfaces corresponds to one or more wells included in the multi-well plate, has positive power in a first direction in which the illumination optical system and the observation optical system are aligned, and has a center of curvature at a position deviating from a central axis of a well of the multi-well plate.

An optical assembly for an analyzer instrument for analysis of elemental composition of a sample using optical emission spectroscopy includes: an exciter generating an excitation focused at a target position to produce optical emission from the sample; and an optical arrangement including a light collection arrangement transferring the optical emission from the target position to a detector assembly's detector interface. The light collection arrangement includes: an off-axis parabolic light collecting mirror including an aperture, a lens arrangement including converging and diverging axicon lens portions, the lens arrangement positioned so its optical axis is parallel to that of the light collecting mirror and intersects a surface of the light collecting mirror at the aperture, and an off-axis parabolic focusing mirror having its focal point at the detector interface, the optical axis of the lens arrangement being parallel to that of the focusing mirror and intersects the focusing mirror's surface.