Gas lens filter systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US12105020B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US17351126

    申请日:2021-06-17

    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods to filter infrared spectrum radiation that can be integrated with a compact optical system for an infrared imaging system. The optical system includes an objective lens element configured to receive and transmit infrared (IR) radiation from a scene, where the IR radiation from the scene includes a particular range of wavelengths corresponding to an absorption spectrum or a transmission spectrum of a gas. The optical system also includes a spectral lens element configured to receive the IR radiation transmitted through the objective lens element, where the spectral lens element comprises a first interference filter disposed on a first surface of the spectral lens element. The interference filter is configured to filter the IR radiation transmitted through the objective lens element to a narrower wavelength band that includes the particular range of wavelengths.

    DUAL PASS BAND FILTER ELEMENT
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240319421A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18610300

    申请日:2024-03-20

    CPC classification number: G02B5/281

    Abstract: A dual pass band filter element includes: a substrate, and a bandpass filtering structure and an anti-reflection structure formed on two opposite surfaces of the substrate. The bandpass filtering structure includes a plurality of first material layers and a plurality of second material layers with a refractive index higher than the respective first material layers, wherein the first and second material layers are stacked alternately along the normal of the substrate; the dual pass band filter element has a first pass band and a second pass band that does not overlap with the first pass band in a band of 400 nm to 1800 nm. In this way, two different bands of light are allowed to pass through the dual pass band filter element, thereby expanding the application field of the dual pass band filter element.

    OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND OPTICAL FILTERS
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240288614A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18656731

    申请日:2024-05-07

    Abstract: An optical system includes a multilayer optical film configured to block transmission of visible light but allow peaks or bands of certain visible wavelengths to pass through; an object disposed on a first side of the multilayer optical film; and a light source and a light sensor disposed on an opposite second side of, and facing, the multilayer optical film. The object is configured to receive light emitted by the light source through the multilayer optical film. The light sensor is configured to receive light from the multilayer optical film. An optical filter may include the multilayer optical film disposed on a wavelength selective scattering layer and/or on a wavelength selective absorbing layer. The wavelength selective scattering layer may have a near-infrared scattering ratio of less than about 0.9.

    Optical member
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11994699B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US17145536

    申请日:2021-01-11

    Applicant: AGC Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02B5/208 B60J1/001 B60J1/02 G02B5/281 G02B5/285

    Abstract: An optical member includes a transparent substrate containing at least one substance selected from glass, a glass ceramic, silicon, and sapphire, and having an infrared high-transmittance region in which an optical transmittance is 78% or more in a wavelength band of 700 nm to 1800 nm; and an optical interference film disposed on a main surface of the transparent substrate corresponding to the infrared high-transmittance region, wherein a transmittance of light, of the optical member, of at least one wavelength λ3 in the wavelength band of 700 nm to 1800 nm in a region of the optical member corresponding to the infrared high-transmittance region of the transparent substrate has a minimum value of 86.5% or more and has a difference between the minimum value and a maximum value of 9% or less in a range where an incidence angle is from 0 degrees to 60 degrees.

    Optical camouflage filter
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11953709B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US17527837

    申请日:2021-11-16

    Abstract: A system may include one or both of a light emitter and a light receiver. The system may include an optical filter adjacent one or both of the light emitter or the light receiver. The optical filter includes a wavelength selective scattering layer. The wavelength selective scattering layer may have a near-infrared scattering ratio of less than about 0.9. The filter may have a visible reflective haze ratio of greater than about 0.5. A method may include disposing the wavelength selective scattering layer adjacent one or both of the light emitter and the light receiver. An article may include the optical filter. The wavelength selective scattering layer may have an average near-infrared scattering of less than 60%, an average visible scattering of greater than 10%, and a difference between the % total visible reflectance and the % diffuse visible reflectance of less than 20.

    Wavelength adaptive narrow band optical filter for a LIDAR system

    公开(公告)号:US11947038B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US16229507

    申请日:2018-12-21

    Abstract: A LIDAR system includes a transmitter unit constructed and arranged to generate light and a photodetector structure for detecting received, reflected light. An actively tunable narrow band optical filter structure is located upstream of the photodetector structure to filter out wavelengths of light associated with sunlight prior to being received by the photodetector structure. The filter structure is constructed and arranged to change optical filtering thereof so as to change wavelengths of light permitted to pass there-through. A photodiode detects light passing through the filter structure. A control unit is associated with the photodiode and the filter structure and is constructed and arranged such that based on the light detected by the photodiode, the control unit can cause the filter structure to change the optical filtering thereof by heating or rotating the filter structure so as to compensate for drifting or broadening of a wavelength of the transmitter unit.

    OPTICAL ANGULAR FILTER
    9.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240045125A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-08

    申请号:US18266547

    申请日:2021-11-22

    Applicant: ISORG

    CPC classification number: G02B5/286 G02B5/201 G02B5/281 G02B5/208 G02B3/0006

    Abstract: An angular filter for an image acquisition device including a stack includes: a layer with mediums having different refraction indexes and transparent to the radiation, the layer only letting through rays of the radiation having incidences smaller than a first maximum incidence; and an array of openings delimited by walls opaque to a visible and/or infrared radiation and an array of microlenses. The assembly formed by the array of openings and the array of microlenses only lets through rays having incidences smaller than a second maximum incidence smaller than the first maximum incidence.

    Light detection device
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11796391B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17634280

    申请日:2020-10-06

    CPC classification number: G01J3/26 G01J3/0297 G01J3/45 G02B5/281 G02B26/001

    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a first support part disposed on a mounting surface of the wiring board; a Fabry-Perot interference filter disposed in a first support region of the first support part; and a temperature detector, wherein the temperature detector is disposed on the mounting surface such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the Fabry-Perot interference filter when seen in a first direction perpendicular to the mounting surface and such that at least a part of the temperature detector overlaps a part of the first support part when seen in a second direction in which the first support part and the light detector are aligned with each other, and wherein a first distance between the temperature detector and the first support part in the second direction is smaller than a first width of the first support region in the second direction.

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