摘要:
A lighting apparatus for vehicles with a number of semiconductor-based light sources and a projection device for generating the specified light distribution with a cut-off line. The projection device features a correction device with at least two lenses. The surface of at least one of the lenses is designed as a diffractive lens surface for achromatization in a visible wavelength range. The two lenses are made from different lens materials. The surfaces of at least two lenses are designed as refractive lens surfaces that have their optical power calculated based on a temperature range and/or expansion coefficient of the lens material of at least two lenses such that adding the optical power of the lenses yields a predefined total optical power of the correction device.
摘要:
In a collimator lens, in a case where divergent light emitted from a position P1 at a distance S1 from a second face enters the second face and imaging is performed at a position P2 at a distance S2 from a first face, in a temperature range of 0° C. to 60° C. and in a range of the emission wavelength of the light source which changes within the temperature range, and when a minimum value of a wavefront aberration of an image, which is generated at the position P2 by the divergent light emitted from the position P1 in a range of 0
摘要:
Provided is an objective lens used in an optical pickup that performs recording and/or reproducing of information signals on three different types of optical discs using different wavelengths. The objective lens is configured to collect light beams with the at least three wavelengths λ1, λ2, and λ3, which satisfy a relationship of λ1
摘要:
An optical scanning device includes a first optical system for guiding light beams emitted from a plurality of light emitting units to an optical deflector, and a second optical system for focusing the light beams to optically scan a surface to be scanned. At least one of the first optical system and the second optical system includes a resin lens having a diffractive surface. The diffractive surface includes a diffractive portion and a refractive portion. A power of the diffractive portion and a power of the refractive portion cancel each other.
摘要:
An optical scanning device includes a first optical system for guiding light beams emitted from a plurality of light emitting units to an optical deflector, and a second optical system for focusing the light beams to optically scan a surface to be scanned. At least one of the first optical system and the second optical system includes a resin lens having a diffractive surface. The diffractive surface includes a diffractive portion and a refractive portion. A power of the diffractive portion and a power of the refractive portion cancel each other.
摘要:
A diffractive optical element includes stacked first and second diffraction gratings made of different materials. The materials of the first and second diffraction gratings are glass. The first and second diffraction gratings have grating surfaces contacted to each other. The materials satisfy a predetermined condition when Tg2 and At2 are a transformation point temperature and a yield point temperature of the material of the first diffraction grating, and Tg3 and At3 are a transformation point temperature and a yield point temperature of the material of the second diffraction grating.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. The first optical path difference providing structure is a ring-shaped structure which includes a plurality of ring-shaped zones including respective steps having at least two kinds of amounts selected from the predetermined expressions.
摘要:
An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. One of the optical path difference providing structures includes a first basic structure and a second basic structure which are predetermined optical path difference providing structures and overlap with each other.
摘要:
There is provided a technique in which in an optical beam scanning device, optical characteristics can be suitably corrected according to a change in environmental temperature. The optical beam scanning device is configured to shape a divergent light from a light source into a light flux having a specified sectional shape by a pre-deflection optical system and to guide the light flux, which is shaped by the pre-deflection optical system 7 and is deflected and scanned in a main scanning direction by a rotation deflector, to a photosensitive surface of each of plural photosensitive bodies by a post-deflection optical system A, the pre-deflection optical system 7 includes a first optical element which is an optical element having a negative power and in which a main light beam of the light flux guided in the pre-deflection optical system 7 passes along an optical axis of the optical element, and the post-deflection optical system A includes at least one second optical element which is an optical element including a diffraction grating formed on at least one of a light flux incident surface and a light flux outgoing surface and in which main light beams of light fluxes to be guided to the respective plural photosensitive bodies are incident on incident positions different from each other in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction.
摘要:
An optical scanning apparatus includes a semiconductor laser and a first optical element that are fixed on a single continuous member. A second optical element, which is a diffraction optical element, has a diffracting surface in which an elliptical groove is formed and which includes a diffracting portion power such that a change in the beam waist position in a main scan direction and a sub-scan direction due to temperature variation in the optical scanning apparatus becomes substantially zero. The member on which the semiconductor laser and the first optical element are fixed has a linear coefficient of expansion such that the ellipticity of the elliptical groove increases.