Disclosed are a terahertz signal generation apparatus and a terahertz signal generation method using the same. The terahertz signal generation apparatus includes first and second resonators configured to respectively output an optical signal of a first resonant frequency and an optical signal of a second resonant frequency from an optical signal input through a gain medium, an optical modulator configured to optically modulate the output optical signal of the second resonant frequency, an optical combiner configured to combine the CW optical signal of the first resonant frequency and the modulated optical signal of the second resonant frequency, and a signal generator configured to generate a terahertz signal using heterodyne beating between the CW optical signal of the first resonant frequency and the modulated optical signal of the second resonant frequency, wherein the first resonant frequency and the second resonant frequency are processed to have a predetermined frequency difference.

A viewing angle controlling light source device and a display apparatus are provided. The viewing angle controlling light source device includes a base substrate; a light emitting array arranged on the base substrate, wherein the light emitting array includes a plurality of light emitting units; at least one liquid crystal lens array arranged on the light emitting array, wherein the liquid crystal lens array includes a plurality of liquid crystal lens units corresponding to the light emitting units one by one, each liquid crystal lens unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode a light emergent direction of light emitted by the light emitting unit after the light transmitting through the liquid crystal lens unit by regulating a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.

A photonic integrated circuit comprises a silicon nitride waveguide, an electro-optic modulator formed of a III-nitride waveguide structure disposed on the silicon nitride waveguide, a dielectric cladding covering the silicon nitride waveguide and electro-optic modulator, and electrical contacts disposed on the dielectric cladding and arranged to apply an electric field to the electro-optic modulator.

A tunable parametric mixer comprising a pump laser, a nonlinear waveguide, and a refractive index tuner. The pump laser is configured to generate pump photons. The nonlinear waveguide comprises a cladding and a core. The core is made of nonlinear optical material and the cladding in made of a material with a tunable index of refraction. The nonlinear waveguide is configured to convert the pump photons into signal and idler photons. The refractive index tuner is configured to change the refractive index of the cladding to dynamically tune the dispersion properties of the nonlinear waveguide in order to alter a spectral location of a gain band of the parametric mixer.

A long-length circularly polarizing plate including: a polarizing film; a λ/2 plate having a slow axis in a direction forming an angle of 22.5°±10° relative to an absorption axis of the polarizing film; and a plate having a slow axis in a direction forming an angle of 90°±20° relative to an absorption axis of the polarizing film, in this order, wherein the λ/2 plate and the λ/4 plate have different wavelength dispersions, and an NZ factor of the λ/4 plate NZq satisfies NZq≦0.0.

A display includes a display modulation layer, a backlight unit configured to generate light for illumination of the display modulation layer, and a filter film disposed between the backlight unit and the display modulation layer. The filter film includes a plurality of Bragg grating sets. Each Bragg grating set is configured to reflect the light in a wavelength-selective and angular-selective manner rearward toward the backlight unit.

An optical device according to the embodiment of the inventive concept includes a waveguide path including a light generation region, a wavelength variable region, and a light modulation region, a first light waveguide layer provided in the light generation region to generate light, a second light waveguide layer provided in the wavelength variable region and connected to the first light waveguide layer, a ring-shaped third light waveguide layer provided in the light modulation region and connected to the second light waveguide layer, and first and second light modulation electrodes spaced apart from each other with the light modulation region therebetween. Here, the first light modulation electrode, the third light waveguide layer, and the second light modulation electrode vertically overlap each other.

The invention discloses a QD CF substrate and manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method uses a patterned photo-resist layer as a masking layer to perform selective quenching on QD layer with a quencher to obtain selectively quenched QD layer, which simplifies QD CF substrate manufacturing process and reduces cost. The QD CF substrate does not use blue QD material in QD layer, but uses blue backlight and organic transparent photo-resist layer to improve light utilization efficiency and reduce material cost. The QD layer is a selectively quenched QD layer, and the portion of the QD layer located above the organic transparent photo-resist layer is quenched by the quencher, and will not emit light when excited by backlight. As such, the invention achieves using the QD material to improve color gamut and brightness, avoid color impurity at blue sub-pixels caused by light mixture, and the manufacturing method is simple.

The active matrix substrate includes gate lines, data lines, photoelectric conversion elements provided in pixels bounded by the gate lines and the data lines and electrically connected to the data lines, and a bias line that is connected to the photoelectric conversion elements and supplies a bias voltage to the photoelectric conversion elements. The active matrix substrate also includes first protection circuits connected to the data lines, second protection circuits connected to the gate lines, and third protection circuits connected to the bias line. Each of the first protection circuits, second protection circuits, and third protection circuits includes at least one nonlinear element. A nonlinear element in each first protection circuit has a higher resistance than a nonlinear element in at least one of each second protection circuit and each third protection circuit.

An electro-holographic light field generator device is disclosed. The light field generator device has an optical substrate with a waveguide face and an exit face. One or more surface acoustic wave (SAW) optical modulator devices are included within each light field generator device. The SAW devices each include a light input, a waveguide, and a SAW transducer, all configured for guided mode confinement of input light within the waveguide. A leaky mode deflection of a portion of the waveguided light, or diffractive light, impinges upon the exit face. Multiple output optics at the exit face are configured for developing from each of the output optics a radiated exit light from the diffracted light for at least one of the waveguides. An RF controller is configured to control the SAW devices to develop the radiated exit light as a three-dimensional output light field with horizontal parallax and compatible with observer vertical motion.