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7622710 |
Optical manipulation system using a plurality of optical traps
The present invention relates to an optical manipulation system ( 10 ) for generation of a plurality of optical traps for manipulation of micro-objects including nano-objects using electromagnetic...
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7619809 |
Mirror assemblies incorporating variable index of refraction materials
A mirror assembly including an active lens and a reflective surface. The mirror assembly may change its refractive index when a voltage is applied to the active lens, thereby changing the field of...
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7619805 |
Light modulator device
A light modulator device includes a bottom charge plate, a top charge plate, and a pixel plate supported by at least one flexure, wherein the flexure is a piece-wise linear flexure.
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7619614 |
Three-dimensional optical mouse system
A three-dimensional optical mouse device with a Micromirror Array Lens (MMAL) is provided. To have the three-dimensional optical mouse system, a three-dimensional imaging device is used for...
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7616368 |
Light concentrating reflective display methods and apparatus
Improved apparatus and methods for displays are disclosed that utilize light concentration array between mechanical light modulators and the viewing surface of the display. The light concentration...
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7580178 |
Image-guided microsurgery system and method
The present invention provides an image-guided microsurgery system comprising a real-time three-dimensional microscopic imaging device and a three-dimensional display device. The imaging device...
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7576907 |
Phase and amplitude light pulse shaping using a one-dimensional phase mask
Simultaneous amplitude and phase control of ultrafast laser pulses using a single, linear (one-dimensional) liquid crystal spatial light modulator is described. Amplitude shaping is accomplished by...
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7576902 |
Spatial light modulator mirror metal having enhanced reflectivity
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a spatial light modulator mirror metal having enhanced reflectivity is provided. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a...
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7570410 |
High brightness display systems using multiple spatial light modulators
The display system separates reflected and transmitted light from a color wheel of the display system; and modulates the separated reflected and transmitted light components using separate spatial...
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7564612 |
Photonic MEMS and structures
An optical device includes a non-transparent substrate. The optical device further includes a first optical layer which is at least partially transmissive and at least partially reflective to...
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7564535 |
Seamless exposure with projection system comprises array of micromirrors with predefined reflectivity variations
A lithographic scanning apparatus includes a light projection device for seamlessly and uniformly projecting a scanning light onto a light exposing area. The light projecting device further...
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7561334 |
Method and apparatus for reducing back-glass deflection in an interferometric modulator display device
Methods and apparatus for reducing back-glass deflection in an interferometric modulator display device are provided. In one embodiment, an interferometric modulator display is provided that...
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7554711 |
MEMS devices with stiction bumps
An interferometric modulator comprising a substrate, a movable membrane and one or more stiction bumps disposed between the substrate and the movable membrane. The stiction bumps are configured to...
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7549759 |
Micro-electromechanical light modulator with enhanced contrast
A system and method for increasing contrast in displays using micromechanical light modulators. Contrast is enhanced by an optical system that uses polarization to discriminate unmodulated light....
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7545446 |
Offner relay for projection system
A projection system includes a modulator and an Offner relay. The modulator is to modulate light in accordance with sub-frames of a frame of image data. The Offner relay is to differently aim, in...
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7542197 |
Spatial light modulator featured with an anti-reflective structure
A spatial light modulator supported on a device substrate includes a plurality of light modulation elements to modulate a light emitted from a light source. The spatial light modulator and the...
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7538930 |
Micro-mechanical thermo structure and method for manufacturing such micro-mechanical structure
The invention relates to a micro-mechanical thermal structure for modulating a light beam and a method for manufacturing such a structure. The micro-mechanical structure comprises two layers of...
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7538314 |
Apparatus for and a method of displaying an image by projecting light onto a screen
A display apparatus is provided. A light beam emitted from a light source is applied through a light modulator and a projecting optical system to a scanning mirror. The light beam is reflected and...
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7535625 |
Image recording apparatus
A projection optical system has first to fourth lens groups ( 51 ) to ( 54 ) provided in this order from a SLM, a mirror ( 32 ) having an opening is provided between the first lens group ( 51 ) and...
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7532377 |
Movable micro-electromechanical device
Improvements in an interferometric modulator that has a cavity defined by two walls.
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7529013 |
Optical modulator module package
An optical modulator module package includes a substrate having a through-hole through which light passes and having a circuit formed on at least one of its inner and outer surfaces; a transparent...
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7528940 |
System and method for inspecting an object using an acousto-optic device
A system and method for inspecting an object. The system includes: a traveling lens acousto-optic device adapted to generate a traveling lens that propagates through an active region of the...
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7528932 |
SLM direct writer
The present invention relates to an apparatus ( 100 ) for patterning a workpiece arranged at an image plane and sensitive to electromagnetic radiation, comprising a source emitting electromagnetic...
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7525730 |
Method and device for generating white in an interferometric modulator display
Various embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for generating the color white in displays created from interferometric modulators and more specifically, to the generation of the...
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7522331 |
Spatial optic modulating system with speckle reduction and method thereof
A spatial optic modulating system with speckle reduction and a method thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a spatial optic modulating system includes a...
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7517096 |
Projection display system with micro-mirror light modulator
A micro-mirror light modulator and associated projection display system. The projection display system includes a light source, a linear light source illumination system that transforms a light...
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7515324 |
System and method for resolving reset conflicts in a phased-reset spatial light modulator system
A system for, and method of resolving reset conflicts in a phased-reset SLM system and a projection visual display system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system...
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7511871 |
Apparatus and methods relating to precision of control illumination exposure
Illumination exposure control systems comprising reflective pixelated spatial light modulators that reflect substantially all of the light impinging on them into at least two different light paths....
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7511093 |
Polyvinyl alcohol polymer film and polarization film
A polyvinyl alcohol polymer film includes a polyvinyl alcohol polymer and a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, glycerin, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol,...
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7508572 |
Charging guard with paschen stacking
A MEMS-based mirror is provided with trenches between adjacent electrodes in order to be able to withstand relatively high applied voltages, and thus has a substantially reduced exposure to...
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7508570 |
Gray level method for slim-based optical lithography
An optical lithography system comprises a light source, a spatial light modulator, imaging optics and means for continuously moving a photosensitive substrate relative to the spatial light...
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7505693 |
Miniature waveform modulator with full pulse by pulse timing control
A miniature waveform modulator is provided to modulate an infrared laser. The miniature waveform modulator outputs a pulse train having different and specified pulse widths, with the pulse train...
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7502155 |
Antireflective coating for semiconductor devices and method for the same
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a first layer of dielectric material disposed upon an upper surface of a substrate of a semiconductor device...
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7495818 |
Microelectromechanical device array and method for driving the same
In a microelectromechanical device array including an array of devices arranged at least one of one-dimensionally and two-dimensionally each of which includes a movable portion that is supported to...
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7495815 |
Electro-optical modulator
An electro-optical modulator device and method are provided. The device comprises a light modulator unit having a first Cathode for exposing to input light; and an electric field source configured...
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7495811 |
Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus using same, and image reading method
An image reading apparatus includes a display section for displaying image information by being subjected to a voltage and/or an electric field, a writing section for writing the image information...
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7492530 |
Metallic nano-optic lenses and beam shaping devices
A nano-optic device comprises a plurality of subwavelength apertures in a metal film or between metal islands. The device is adapted to shape a radiation beam transmitted there through. For...
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7492502 |
Method of fabricating a free-standing microstructure
Provided is a MEMS device comprising an integrated post and deformable layer. In some embodiments, the transition between the post and deformable layer comprises substantially a single arcuate or...
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7489312 |
Pixel unit scanning-based display apparatus
Disclosed herein is a pixel unit scanning-based display apparatus, in which diffracted beams having a plurality of diffraction orders, formed from a single beam through diffraction, are used to...
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7483200 |
Multiple stop micro-mirror array display
A micro mirror device is described. The device has a tiltable mirror plate with a reflective surface configured to reflect incident light to form a reflected light beam. A controller is configured...
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7477219 |
Micro-mirror and method
According to one embodiment of the present invention a method of reflecting light is disclosed including providing an element having a surface having an edge on which the element is capable of...
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7474456 |
Controllable composite material
An apparatus and related methods for controlling propagation of incident radiation are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a composite material operable to exhibit at least one of...
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7471445 |
Fast-response micro-mechanical devices
A spatial light modulator includes a mirror plate comprising a reflective upper surface, a lower surface, and a substrate portion comprising a cavity having an opening on the lower surface, a...
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7471439 |
Process of forming a micromechanical system containing an anti-stiction gas-phase lubricant
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a process of forming a device that has an improved usable lifetime due to the addition of a gas-phase lubricant that reduces the likelihood...
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7463406 |
Method for fabricating microelectromechanical optical display devices
A microelectromechanical optical display devices is provided. An optical layer is disposed on a substrate. A plurality of posts are disposed on the optical layer. A reflective layer is disposed on...
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7460282 |
Dynamic pattern generation for optical signal processing
A processor such as a digital signal processor (DSP) is used to dynamically generate patterns and/or sequences of patterns for a spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a micromirror device, for the...
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7457670 |
Gobo virtual machine
Producing complicated effects based on image processing operations. The image processing operations are defined for a processor which may be different than the processor which is actually used. The...
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7453624 |
Projection display system including a high fill ratio silicon spatial light modulator
A display system includes a light source and a first optical system coupled to the light source and adapted to provide an illumination beam along an illumination path. The display system also...
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7453623 |
Reflecting mirror and exposure apparatus using the same
A mirror apparatus including a reflecting mirror reflecting light, partition walls, the walls and the reflecting mirror defining a plurality of air chambers, and a regulator regulating air pressure...
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7453621 |
Micro mirrors with piezoelectric release mechanism
A spatial light modulator includes a substrate; a hinge in connection with the substrate; a mirror plate that is connected with the hinge and is configured to tilt about the hinge; and a...
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