Abstract:
An optical device includes a base material including a surface on which multiple concaves are formed. The concaves include respective curved surfaces. The concaves are formed so that the bottoms of the concaves are at two or more different positions in a depth direction. In the optical device, 2/7≦|(n1−n2)×Δd|/λ≦10 holds, where n1 is the refractive index of the base material, n2 is the refractive index of a medium around the concaves, λ is the wavelength of a beam flux that enters the base material, and Δd is a range of the positions of the bottoms in the depth direction.
Abstract:
An optical member includes a reflection-scattering unit that reflects and scatters light having a wavelength band which corresponds to at least a portion of a visible wavelength range, and transmits light having a wavelength band which corresponds to at least a portion of an infrared region, wherein rectilinear transmittance for the light having the wavelength band which corresponds to at least the portion of the infrared region is equal to or greater than 75%.
Abstract:
To make it possible to emit a light pattern with a uniform light quantity within a detection surface in spite of 0th-order diffracted light included therein or to emit a light pattern for overall irradiation with a uniform light quantity distribution, without limiting a degree of freedom for design of the emitted light pattern.In a diffraction optical element according to the invention, a divergence angle converting function that is a function of converting the divergence angle of incident light due to diffraction effect and a light beam splitting function that is a function of splitting an incident light beam into a plurality of light beams due to diffraction effect are combined so that incident light as divergent light is split into a plurality of diffracted lights with different divergence angles from the divergence angle of the incident light and the diffracted lights is emitted.
Abstract:
An image light projection screen has a plurality of aperiodic lens array units on a main surface. The aperiodic lens array units are arrayed two-dimensionally regularly and without any gap at least in an image display region. Each aperiodic lens array unit includes at least four apexes of micro-lenses each having a curved surface shape and arranged without any gap and non-periodically, and has symmetry keeping continuity of the curved surface shapes of the micro-lenses located in a boundary portion.
Abstract:
A light guide element includes a light-guiding substrate and a diffraction part formed on a surface of the light-guiding substrate. The diffraction part includes an optical layer capable of exerting a diffractive action. The distance from the light-guiding substrate to a surface of the optical layer is equal to or less than 10% of a thickness of the light-guiding substrate. The light guide element satisfies |ΔD|≦0.15 mm, where ΔD is an amount of a change in D with the temperature change ΔT, D [mm] is a distance, at the temperature T (° C.), between the center of the diffraction part and a position predetermined as a position where the ray of light comes out of the light-guiding substrate in a direction horizontal with respect to the light-guiding substrate, and ΔT is a temperature change.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a diffractive optical element and a measurement device that are capable of reliably suppressing occurrence of a zero-order diffracted light beam and generating light spots in a wide range. The diffractive optical element has concave and convex portions and diffracts incident light in two dimensions to generate diffracted light. When a maximum diffraction angle with reference to an optical axis of the incident light is an angle range θ, the angle range θ is 7.5° or greater, and diffraction efficiency in a zero-order diffracted light beam is 5% or less.