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7431518 Optical device, lens unit, and imaging apparatus  
An optical device and a lens unit each include a liquid container containing an insulating liquid and an electroconductive liquid which are mutually immiscible and optically transparent and have...
7430370 Optical element, lens unit and image pickup apparatus  
An optical element and a lens unit each includes: a liquid container transmitting light at least in a predetermined optical axis direction, the liquid container containing an insulating liquid and...
7426069 Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus  
An optical apparatus is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes: a first optical element having a first polarizing layer containing a material having a refractive index that changes in accordance...
7403677 Fiberoptic reconfigurable devices with beam shaping for low-voltage operation  
An apparatus and method to operate on a light beam by using a lens that collimates the light beam to a collimated beam with at least one cross-sectional dimension less than a critical dimension of...
7375870 Enhancement electrode configuration for electrically controlled light modulators  
An electrically controlled light modulator device comprises at least one cell, where two deformable dielectric layers meet at an interface, at least one of said layers consisting of viscoelastic...
7355776 Acoustic damping material for electro-optic materials  
An acoustic damping material for electro-optic material has an adhesive material combined with a ceramic crystalline material such that the acoustic impedance of the combined adhesive material and...
7324257 Low bias drift modulator with buffer layer  
The invention relates to an electro-optic modulator structure containing an additional set of bias electrodes buried within the device for applying bias to set the operating point. Thus the RF...
7307781 Techniques for using chirped fields to reconfigure a medium that stores spectral features  
Techniques for reconfiguring spectral features stored in a medium based on a two-state atomic system with transition dipole moment μ includes causing a chirp to pass into the medium. The chirp...
7295360 Structure having light modulating film and light control device using the same  
A structure includes a substrate and a light modulating film formed on top of the substrate. The light modulating film is made of polycrystalline PLZT containing Pb, Zr, Ti, and La as constituent...
7268849 Spatial light modulator employing voltage gradient pixels, and associated methods  
A spatial light modulator has a transmissive window with a transparent conductive film forming a ground plane and a direct drive backplane with a plurality of voltage gradient pixels. Each of the...
7206115 Optical switching element, and device, optically addressed type display medium and display each using the optical switching element  
The invention provides an optical switching element and a device, an optically addressed type display medium and a display each including such an optical switching element. The optical switching...
7190503 Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus  
A method of manufacturing an electro-optical device having a curved display surface with high reliability is provided. A liquid crystal panel 100 comprising a TFT array substrate 10 and a...
7179535 Polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint  
The present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint, and, more specifically, the present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and...
7154656 Radiation absorption in electro-optical devices  
Electro-optical apparatus includes a housing having at least one electrical subassembly (ESA) and at least one optical subassembly (OSA) therein as well as cavities within the housing and paths for...
7142344 Optical apparatus  
To provide an optical apparatus which controls an interface state to change a focal length by using an optical element having a container sealing first liquid that is conductive or polarized and...
7095559 Variable optical delay circuit  
In a variable optical delay circuit to be used for compensation for polarization mode dispersion of an optical signal and for other purposes, there are provided a first birefringent member, a...
7064886 Light regulating device and photonic crystal display utilizing photonic bandgap controls  
A light regulating device and photonic crystal display device utilizing bandgap controls including a photonic crystal including a material that is capable of varying its refractive index in...
7057787 Architecture for large-FOR EO-crystal-based agile beam steering  
An electro-optic crystal based beam-steering device preferably based on KTN, having a first deflector and a second deflector. The first deflector has a pair of substrates each having a plurality of...
7050218 Electrophoretic dispersion, electrophoretic display device, method of manufacturing electrophoretic display device, and electronic system  
To provide an electrophoretic dispersion capable of reducing or preventing the aggregation of electrophoretic particles, an electrophoretic display device using the electrophoretic dispersion, a...
7023603 Micro-mirror device including dielectrophoretic microemulsion  
A micro-mirror device includes a substrate having a surface, and a plate spaced from and oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the substrate such that the plate and the surface of the...
6987605 Transflective electrophoretic display  
This invention relates to an electrophoretic display comprising isolated cells of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio which cells are filled with charged pigment particles dispersed in a...
6980351 Electrophoretic display  
An electrophoretic display utilizing a phenomenon of electrophoresis is provided. The electrophoretic display includes an lower electrode located on an under layer, an lower electrode protection...
6978069 Polymer guest-host systems and polymer electro-optic waveguide systems  
An electro-optic system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises a high glass transition temperature (Tg≧about 210° C.) polymer matrix featuring aromatic groups on the...
6967762 Image display medium, image display, device and image display method  
A plurality of cells are set apart by a spacer member between a display plate and a rear face plate. Black particles with positive static charge and white particles with negative static charge are...
6958842 Display device and process for production thereof  
A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other, and a display medium including an insulating liquid and electrophoretic colored particles...
6950228 Electro-optic reflective modulators  
Provided is an electro-optic reflective modulator comprising a reflective active material, preferably comprising a reflective organic free radical compound, that reflects a wavelength in a highly...
6950219 Optical apparatus  
To provide an optical apparatus which controls an interface state to change a focal length by using an optical element having a container sealing first liquid that is conductive or polarized and...
6947203 Electrophoretic dispersion, electrophoretic display device, method of manufacturing electrophoretic display device, and electronic system  
To provide an electrophoretic dispersion capable of reducing or preventing the aggregation of electrophoretic particles, an electrophoretic display device using the electrophoretic dispersion, a...
6947192 Correction of birefringence in cubic crystalline optical systems  
An optical system includes multiple cubic crystalline optical elements aligned along a common optical axis and having their crystal lattices oriented with respect to each other to minimize the...
6919982 Optical path deflecting element, optical path deflecting apparatus, image displaying apparatus, optical element and manufacturing method thereof  
An optical path deflecting element, an optical path deflecting apparatus, an image displaying apparatus, an optical writing apparatus, an optical interconnection apparatus, an optical element, and...
6917456 Light modulator  
A light modulator includes a substrate, a transparent plate spaced from the substrate such that the transparent plate and the substrate define a cavity therebetween, at least one electrode formed...
6876476 Display device and process for production thereof  
A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other, and a display medium including an insulating liquid and electrophoretic colored particles...
6834137 Cholesteric liquid crystal cell devices and systems  
Cholesteric liquid crystal cell units are used for reflecting or transmitting incident light responsive to control signals. A cholesteric liquid crystal cell unit has a first cholesteric liquid...
6806988 Optical apparatus  
To provide an optical apparatus which controls an interface state to change a focal length by using an optical element having a container sealing first liquid that is conductive or polarized and...
6801676 Method and apparatus for phase shifting an optical beam in an optical device with a buffer plug  
An apparatus and method for modulating a phase of optical beam with reduced contact loss. In one embodiment, an apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention includes a first region...
6778309 Electroabsorption modulator with tunable chirp  
An electroabsorption modulator comprises a tandem arrangement of a conventional electroabsorption (EA) modulator element and a phase modulator element. The EA modulator element is driven by the...
6751004 Optical system with magnetorheological fluid  
An optical system includes a layer of magneto rheological (MR) fluid having a surface exposed to air or vacuum. The MR fluid has a first state wherein the surface is reflective, and a second state...
6728021 Optical component and method of inducing a desired alteration of an optical property therein  
High precision optical components, for example CaF 2 lenses in lithographic systems for the production of integrated circuits, often suffer from stress induced birefringence and other...
6728020 Optical element suitable for projection display apparatus  
Platelike first transparent members 321 and platelike second transparent members 322 are prepared. Each first transparent member has substantially parallel first and second surfaces (film...
6724513 Electro-optic device and electronic instrument  
An electro-optic device has, on a TFT array substrate, a pixel electrode; a TFT connected thereto; a scanning line and a data line connected to the thin film transistor; a pixel potential side...
6690500 Aberration correction apparatus and method  
An aberration correction device for correcting aberration produced in a light beam, which includes: a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer being opposed to each other; and a liquid...
6683710 Correction of birefringence in cubic crystalline optical systems  
An optical system includes multiple cubic crystalline optical elements aligned along a common optical axis and having their crystal lattices oriented with respect to each other to minimize the...
6665106 Method for optical polarization control  
The invention specifies a method and apparatus for optical polarization control which enable non-ideal component behavior to be corrected by means of a calibration table. This ensures shorter...
6614574 Total internal reflection light modulating microstructure devices  
A light modulating switch ( 210 ) including a switching element ( 218 ) having a first portion ( 226 ) of electro-optic material to which first and second electrodes ( 213, 224 ) are associated. A...
6522446 Anisometrically shaped metal particles, liquid suspensions and films thereof and light valves comprising same  
The invention is directed to the use of anisometrically shaped metal particles in liquid light valve suspensions, light valve films and light valves. The anisometric metal particles may have...
6498672 Electro-optical device and projection display device including the same  
An electro-optical device is provided having an electro-optical panel and a case member, the electro-optical panel including a pair of substrates and a transparent member joined to at least one...
6449081 Optical element and optical device having it  
An optical element has a first fluid and an electroconductive or polar, second fluid immiscible with each other, which are confined in a sealed space created between a first support and a second...
6414781 Electro-optical device and projection display device including the same  
An electro-optical device is provided having a structure which, in particular, allows the device to be made smaller and thinner, and the heat-dissipation capability to be increased in order to...
6411420 Electro-optical element, and method of driving and method of manufacturing the same  
Polarization inversion domains 2 are irregularly formed in a ferroelectric substrate 3 constituting an electro-optical element 1 at least in the propagation direction of a light beam A. An...
6204952 Bragg modulator  
A Bragg modulator modulates the intensity of a light beam, in particular of a laser beam. The Bragg modulator includes an electro-optic crystal wafer with a rectangular top face, in particular a...
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