Patent classifications
G02B27/126
OPTICAL MODULE AND LASER SYSTEM
The invention discloses an optical module and a laser system, and relates to the technical field of optics. The optical module comprises a first light emitting assembly, a second light emitting assembly, and a homogenizing lens group arranged on the light emitting sides of the first light emitting assembly and the second light emitting assembly; Light beams emitted by the first light emitting assembly and the second light emitting assembly are respectively and vertically incident on the light incident side of the homogenizing lens group, and the homogenizing lens group homogenizes and emits the light beams incident by the first light emitting assembly and the second light emitting assembly to form light spots. The optical module and the laser system are small and compact in structure, and can realize diversified forms of output light spots, so that the optical module and the laser system can meet different requirements.
OPTICAL COUPLING AND MODE-SELECTIVE SEPARATION OR SUPERPOSITION OF OPTICAL FIELDS
The invention relates to an assembly for optical coupling and for mode-selective separation or overlaying of optical fields, to the use thereof and to a method for producing a waveguide-based optical coupling element (10) which is designed for mode-selective separation or overlaying of optical fields at a further optical coupling point (410) of an optical component (400). The assembly comprises at least one waveguide-based optical coupling element (10) having at least three optical coupling points (100, 370, 380), and at least one optical component (400) having at least one further optical coupling point (410), wherein at least one of the optical coupling points 100, 370, 380) is optically connected to the at least one further optical coupling point (410), and wherein the waveguide-based optical coupling element (10) is designed to transmit light highly efficiently and bidirectionally between eigenmodes (120, 260) associated with the first optical coupling point (100) and the second optical coupling point (370), and between eigenmodes (130, 280) associated with the first optical coupling point (100) and the third optical coupling point (380).
MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECT INTERCONNECTS FOR PHOTONIC PACKAGING
An optical package comprising an optical die that is electrically coupled to a package substrate, and an optical interconnect adjacent the optical die. The optical interconnect comprises a first polarizing filter adjacent to a first lens, a second polarizing filter adjacent to a second lens; and a film comprising a magnetic material between the first polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter. The second polarizing filter is rotated with respect to the first polarizing filter and the magnetic material is to rotate a polarization vector of light incoming to the optical interconnect. An optical fiber interface port is immediately adjacent to the first lens. The second lens is immediately adjacent to an optical interface of the optical die.
HIGH-BRIGHTNESS SPATIAL BEAM COMBINING OF LASER MODULES YIELDING A COMMON IMAGE PLANE
A system includes multiple laser diode modules that are spatially separated and configured to generate multiple optical beams that propagate at angles relative to each other. The system also includes an optical element having at least one entrance surface and at least one exit surface. The optical element is configured to receive the optical beams at the at least one entrance surface and output each optical beam through the at least one exit surface such that the output optical beams are closely spaced, substantially the same size, and substantially parallel to each other at a common distance downstream from the optical element, and the optical beams all share a common downstream image plane.
COLOR MIXING WITH TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTOR AND CENTER REFLECTOR
A color mixing lens assembly is provided. The color mixing assembly may include a center mixing structure arranged concentrically within the optic. The center mixing structure may be configured to receive a first portion of electromagnetic radiation from a light receiving structure. The center mixing structure may include a plated surface. The center mixing structure may include a center kick structure arranged concentrically within the center mixing structure. The center kick structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation towards the plated surface. The center mixing structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the plated surface through an exit surface of the optic. The optic may be configured to reflect a second portion of the electromagnetic radiation received from the light source structure through the exit surface of the optic.
Assembly for increasing the resolution of a laser scanning microscope
An arrangement for increasing resolution of a laser scanning microscope has a simplified adjustment and lower susceptibility to errors. The pupil beam from the laser scanning microscope is coupled into a shortened common path interferometer, to make wavefronts of a pupil image mirrored at at least one axis and wavefronts of an unchanged pupil image interfere. The area of a pupil from the pupil beam is split into two complementary portions P and Q producing two partial beams separately supplied to at least one beam deflection means by total-internal reflection along the common path interferometer. The light of the interferometer branches from transmitted light of the one interferometer branch and reflected light of the other interferometer branch is made to interfere at a partly transmissive beam splitter layer to cause constructive interference C and destructive interference D of the wavefronts from the two different portions P and Q of the pupil.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PHASE IMAGING AND ELEMENT DETECTION BASED ON WAVEFRONT MODULATION
A device and method for phase imaging and element detection based on wavefront modulation are provided to overcome the disadvantages of an existing interferometry such as twin image elimination, limit resolution, under-sampling wavefront measurement, and multi-modal measurement. From the perspective of light field encoding, the accurate measurement to a complex amplitude of a light field to be measured is completely achieved by the iterative calculation, and at the same time, a twin image problem may be effectively eliminated, and it has the multi-modal (multi-wavelength) reconstruction ability. Theoretically, it is able to reach the diffraction limit resolution, may be widely used in phase imaging, optical element surface-type detection, polarization distribution measurement and the like, and it has a wide range of applications.
Imaging device and endoscope
[Object] To acquire distance information concerning a living tissue through an endoscope with higher accuracy irrespective of the diameter of the endoscope. [Solution] An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a ranging light source section configured to output ranging light for measuring a distance at a predetermined timing; an image sensor on which an image of the imaging target is formed; a ranging light image sensor on which optical feedback of the ranging light from the imaging target is imaged; a branch optical system configured to coaxially branch incident light into three types of optical paths different from one another; and a distance information calculating section configured to calculate distance information concerning the imaging target on a basis of a result of detection of the optical feedback. In the branch optical system, a first optical path among the three types of optical paths is used as an optical path configured to guide the ranging light whose applied position on the imaging target has been controlled to the imaging target, a second optical path is used as an optical path configured to form an image of the imaging target on the image sensor, and a third optical path is used as an optical path configured to image the optical feedback on the ranging light image sensor. The distance information calculating section calculates a spaced distance to the imaging target by a Time Of Flight method on the basis of the result of detection of the optical feedback.
Range finder
A range finder includes a prism module and a prism adjusting mechanism. The prism module includes a fixing prism group and a movable prism group, wherein the fixing prism group is adjacent to the movable prism group. The prism adjusting mechanism includes a first adjusting group and a second adjusting group, wherein the first adjusting group includes a first adjusting member and a second adjusting member, and the second adjusting group includes a third adjusting member. The first adjusting member or the second adjusting member is rotated to axially move so that the movable prism group is rotated with respect to the fixing prism group about a first axis, the third adjusting member is rotated to axially move so that the movable prism group is rotated with respect to the fixing prism group about a second axis, and the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis.
AUTO-ILLUMINATING DRY FIRE TARGET
A dry fire training apparatus includes a beam chamber, a beam splitter lens, and a beam diffuser element. The beam chamber has a receiving side, a reflecting side, and at least one sidewall extending therebetween. The beam splitter lens is coupled to the receiving side. The beam splitter lens is configured to receive a laser pulse having a first trajectory therethrough. The beam diffuser element is coupled to the reflecting side and/or the sidewall. The beam diffuser element is configured to diffuse the laser pulse around the beam chamber and reflect the laser pulse at a second trajectory to illuminate the beam splitter lens.