Abstract:
A process for producing an article having a finely uneven surface coated with a film, which has high heat resistance and which neither cracks nor peels off from a substrate, by forming a film of a sol material between a substrate and a mold in such a manner that the film is in close contact with them and applying heat to form a gelled film, which has a surface configuration that is the inversion of the surface configuration of the mold, on the surface of the substrate, wherein the sol material contains (A) R2SiX2 (R is an alkyl group and X is an alkoxyl group or halogen atom) and (B) R′SiX′3 (R′ is an aryl group or substituted aryl group and X′ is an alkoxyl group or halogen atom).
Abstract:
A light measuring device is designed, so that excitation light, emitted by a light source, is guided through an excitation light optical fiber to irradiate a sample, and that fluorescence discharged by the sample is guided to an optical detection system through a receiving light optical fiber. A coupling lens is arranged ahead of the excitation light optical fiber and ahead of the receiving light optical fiber on the sample side. A sample container for retaining a sample is so designed that a lens portion, for collecting excitation light and fluorescence, is integrally formed with the cylindrical bottom. According to this arrangement, excitation light is changed to parallel light or converged light by the coupling lens, and is collected at the sample by the lens portion integrally formed with the bottom of the sample container.
Abstract:
A light detection device for detecting an optical path position of invisible light. The detection device includes a main body and a light guide. The light guide includes a distal end functioning as a light incident portion through which the detected light enters and a light radiation portion from which visible light is emitted. A drive mechanism reciprocates the light guide in an X-direction while vibrating the light guide in a perpendicular Y-direction. The distal end of the light guide rod moves within a light detection area in an XY plane. A visible light-emitting unit radiates visible light from the distal end when the detected light enters the distal end. The visible light-emitting unit includes a photo-detector for detecting the detected light and a light-emitting element for generating the visible light when the photo-detector detects the detected light.
Abstract:
An optical module includes a package, which accommodates an optical system. A package main body has an opening. A lid is attached to the main body to close the opening of the main body. The lid seals the package. An anti-deterioration agent for preventing deterioration of the optical system is located inside the package at a position out of a light path of the optical system. The anti-deterioration agent includes at least one of desiccant and deoxidant.
Abstract:
A thin-film structure includes plate-shaped metals or plate-shaped structures in which a plate-shaped metal and a plate-shaped dielectric are in contact. The plate-shaped metal or structures are formed on a transparent base having a surface with line-shaped corrugated structures. The plate-shaped metals or structures are perpendicular to or oblique to the surface of the base. The thin-film structure has characteristics suitable for polarizers used in liquid crystal projectors and the like.
Abstract:
In a small-sized optical module, opposite side surfaces of a collimator lens (2) and opposite side surfaces of a polarization compensating filter (5) are fixed to opposite side surfaces of a rectangular frame (4). Two open surfaces are provided in the rectangular frame (4), so that optical components can be finely adjusted easily, and a large number of small-sized optical components can be aligned and assembled accurately. Reinforcing members (6) are provided in the open surfaces of the rectangular frame (4) so that the shape of the rectangular frame (4) can be retained against external force. After a diffraction grating (3) is fixed to the reinforcing members (6), the reinforcing members (6) with the diffraction grating (3) are adjusted, aligned and fixed to the rectangular frame (4).
Abstract:
The invention provides a multilayer-coated substrate which has recesses and projections of an accurate shape on the surface and has high heat resistance and a high degree of integration, and further provides a process for producing the same.
Abstract:
When a diffraction grating having a grating period of d and a diffraction order of m for an incident light having a wavelength interval &Dgr;&lgr;i between i'th and (i+1)'th channels is used, an optical path length between the diffraction grating and the photodetector is represented by L and a mean output angle is represented by &thgr;o, a pitch pi between the i'th and (i+1)'th photodetectors in the photodetector array satisfies the equation of pi=m&Dgr;&lgr;iL/d cos &thgr;o.
Abstract:
An optical wavelength demultiplexer has at least two optical fibers and a two-dimensional array of photodetectors arranged in as many rows as the number of optical fibers and as many columns as the number of demultiplex channels. Any one of said optical fibers and a central line of one of said rows which corresponds to said any one of the optical fibers are spaced equal distances from the optical axis of a focusing element such as a collimator lens or a concave diffraction grating. A light ray emitted from any one of the optical fibers is demultiplexed by a planar or concave diffraction grating into light rays, which are applied to a corresponding row of photodetectors to produce output signals in the respective demultiplex channels. The planar diffraction grating and the collimator lens, or the concave diffraction grating is shared by the at least two optical fibers which provide input capabilities.
Abstract:
A microlens array of high converging efficiency is provided, independently of the array and lens filling rate of microlens arrays, with a method of manufacturing microlens arrays using the diffusion process. A multitude of refractive-index distribution type microlenses formed by diffusing in a planar transparent substrate a substance contributing to increasing the refractive index of the substrate are two-dimensionally and regularly arranged on the surface of the substrate. The microlenses are densely arranged on the surface of the substrate, and diffusion fronts of the microlenses form regions where the diffusion fronts are fused with those of the adjoining microlenses. The length of a region where certain two adjoining microlenses are fused together, in the direction of a straight line connecting the centers of the two microlenses is less than 20% of the array pitch of the microlenses in the above-mentioned direction.