Optical apparatus and image pickup apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10073327B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-11

    申请号:US15466974

    申请日:2017-03-23

    摘要: An optical apparatus includes a first retardation plate giving a retardation between polarization components in slow and fast axis directions, a second retardation plate changing a relative retardation between polarization components in slow and fast axis directions, and a polarizer extracting a polarization component guided to the image pickup element. The first and second retardation plates, and the polarizer are disposed in order from an object side. The slow or fast axis direction of the first retardation plate is parallel to a polarization direction of the polarization component extracted by the polarizer. The slow or fast axis direction of the second retardation plate is inclined by 45 degrees with respect to the polarization direction. When a design wavelength is λ, a phase change amount being a difference between maximum and minimum values of the relative retardations is in a range from 2λ/5 to 3λ/5 both inclusive.

    SPECKLE REDUCING DEVICE AND PROJECTOR
    83.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180246340A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-30

    申请号:US15969761

    申请日:2018-05-02

    申请人: NIKON CORPORATION

    发明人: Akinobu Suga

    摘要: A speckle reducing device includes: a polarization splitter element with a polarization splitter portion that splits incident light into first and second light containing a first and a second component respectively, which outputs the first and the second light along different directions; a first reflecting member that reflects the first light to reenter the polarization splitter element; a first conversion member disposed between the first reflecting member and the polarization splitter element, which converts the first light to third light containing the second component; a second reflecting member that reflects the third light to reenter the polarization splitter element; and a second conversion member disposed between the second reflecting member and the polarization splitter element, which converts the third light to fourth light containing the first component, wherein: the polarization splitter element outputs the second and the fourth light along one direction.

    CHROMATIC PHASE PLATE
    87.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180231788A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15956141

    申请日:2018-04-18

    发明人: Johann Engelhardt

    摘要: A segmented chromatic phase plate comprises at least three stacks. The three stacks are arranged around and stacked along a main axis, and have same overall heights. Each stack comprises at least two plane-parallel optical flats of different materials. The materials and the thicknesses of the optical flats are selected such that optical path lengths of light of a first wavelength passing through the different stacks along the main axis differ by integer multiples of the first wavelength, whereas optical path lengths of light of a second wavelength differ by integer multiples plus defined fractions of the second wavelength. The materials of the at least two optical flats have different refractive indices for both the first and second wavelengths; and derivatives of the differences between the optical path lengths with respect to wavelength are zero at at least one of the first and second wavelengths.