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6950384 Optical pickup appratus, recording/reproducing apparatus provided with the optical pickup apparatus, optical element, and information recording/reproducing method  
An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a...
6947213 Diffractive optical element that polarizes light and an optical pickup using the same  
A first diffractive optical element pattern with a pattern pitch that is no greater than a wavelength of incident light is formed on a first main surface of substrate such as a glass plate. Second...
6947204 Compact wavelength selective switching and/or routing system  
Compact systems with reduced insertion loss, and increased switch isolation and switching speed. The switching and/or routing devices utilize a separating sub-system, a switching and/or routing...
6943952 Optical security component  
An optical security component for authenticating a document or a product including a transparent plastic film embossed to form an embossed surface and to have at least one diffraction grating; a...
6940650 Diffraction optical element and transfer mold therefor  
A diffraction optical element including an element body having a large number of grooves formed on its surface to form a grating, and a grating shape adjusting layer deposited on a grating surface...
6930053 Method of forming grating microstructures by anodic oxidation  
A method of manufacturing an element having a microstructure of an excellent grating groove pattern or the like is obtained. This method of manufacturing an element having a microstructure...
6927914 Grism  
In order to achieve highly dispersive spectrometry in wide wavelength with the use of a single grism, but not a plurality of grisms, the grism is composed of a prism the vertex angle of which can...
6927913 Optical signal processing apparatus  
An optical signal processing apparatus has a diffraction grating element, first condenser lens, Faraday rotation elements, polarization beam splitter, λ/2 plate, second condenser lens, third...
6924934 Diffractive safety element  
A security element ( 2 ) comprising a plastic laminate ( 1 ) has a surface pattern which is composed mosaic-like at least from surface elements, wherein in the surface elements a reflecting...
6922286 Off-axis diffractive beam shapers and splitters for reducing sensitivity to manufacturing tolerances  
A diffractive element used in conjunction with a grating to move a desired order beam off-axis, thereby reducing interference by undesired orders. Use of the off-axis grating allows a more uniform...
6922287 Light coupling element  
A light coupling element is proposed with a surface ( 3 ) of a material which is transparent to light of a given wavelength (λ). In order for the light coupling element to act independently of the...
6919983 Microelectromechanical device with continuously variable displacement  
An electrostatic micromechanical device with continuously variable displacement, that includes: a movable member having a first electrode; an opposing surface having a second electrode; a channel...
6917454 Holographic optical element, position shift detecting apparatus, optical pickup apparatus, optical recording medium drive and method of fabricating holographic optical element  
In a holographic pattern provided in a holographic optical element, a pattern 1 a twists a diffracted light beam in a clockwise direction, to form a semi-circular light spot Sa on photodetection...
6917472 Achromatic fresnel optics for ultraviolet and x-ray radiation  
An achromatic Fresnel optic that combines a Fresnel zone plate and a refractive Fresnel lens. The zone plate provides high resolution for imaging and focusing, while the refractive lens takes...
6913365 Light diffusive protective film  
A light diffusive protective film for a surface light source device for protecting other base material and improving the luminance of information display is disclosed which comprises a transparent...
6909546 Multipoint lump homogenizing optical system  
When a Gaussian power distribution laser beam is converted into a uniform power density beam by a converging homogenizing DOE and is divided into a plurality of homogenized beams by a diverging...
6909547 Security element with diffraction structures  
A security element ( 2 ) comprising a plastic laminate has a surface pattern ( 12 ) composed mosaic-like from surface elements ( 13; 14; 15 ). Shaped into at least two of the surface elements ( 14;...
6903872 Electrically reconfigurable optical devices  
The invention refers to electrically reconfigurable optical devices based on the use of a layer of dielectric and transparent viscoelastic material (G) opposing at least a first electrode structure...
6900939 Polarization insensitive beam splitting grating and apparatus using it  
A beam splitting element having a diffraction grating is designed by careful selection of device parameters such as grating period, duty cycle, depth and refractive index. In particular, the...
6900932 Optical gain flattening filter using VPG-based optical elements  
An optical gain flattening filter for attenuating the wavelength power levels of an optical beam to a threshold value. The filter has a series of volume phase gratings which each have a loss...
6898009 Diffractive display  
The present invention is directed to an improvement in a diffractive display suitable for presenting graphic and the like displays. Broadly, a novel embodiment is realized from a holographic...
6894837 Imaging system for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) beam-based microscope  
Imaging system for a microscope based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. The present invention is directed to a reflective imaging system for an x-ray microscope for examining and object in an...
6892002 Stacked planar integrated optics and tool for fabricating same  
In a method of making a replication tool, replication parts for both two dimensional optical elements, such as are fabricated using micro-forming techniques, and three dimensional optical elements,...
6891147 Wavelength-selective diffraction element and an optical head device  
An optical head device having an optical element capable of transmitting without diffracting light having a wavelength emitted from a two-wavelength semiconductor laser and capable of diffracting...
6891675 Optical device  
There is disclosed an optical device in which a first light source for outputting a first wavelength light is apart from a second light source for outputting a second wavelength light by a...
6888653 Optical scanning device  
In an optical scanning device 1 , a housing 3 has a space 3 a in the inside thereof. A floating rotational plate 2 is housed in the space 3 a , and is caused to float and to rotate by a...
6870678 Surface pattern  
A surface pattern ( 18 ) is in the form of a visually visible mosaic comprising a number of surface portions ( 8; 9; 15; 16; 17 ) and is embedded in a laminate ( 1 ) comprising at least a...
6865025 Aberration compensating optical element, optical system, optical pickup device, recorder and reproducer  
An aberration compensating optical element includes: a diffractive structure having a plurality of ring-shaped zone steps formed into substantially concentric circles on at least one surface of the...
6860650 Assembly for aligning an optical array with optical fibers  
An electro-optical converter assembly is described. The electro-optic converter includes an optically transparent substrate with a plurality of alignment apertures and an optical device disposed on...
6856461 Tunable optical filter  
A tunable optical device for adding or dropping one or more channels in a wavelength division multiplexing communication system is disclosed. The tunable optical device comprises one or more...
6847754 Coordinated axis seeks with a micro-electro-mechanical mirror  
A method of moving a MEM system mirror in a well defined trajectory that allows longer seeks to be used to reach a target position as compared with known methods that employ small step sizes due to...
6844973 Plane diffraction grating based on surface normal rotation and its application to an optical system  
A plane diffraction grating based on surface normal rotation according to the present invention is designed so that the profile of the grooves at a radial area is determined depending on a...
6842286 Optical system and methods that compensate for changes in atmospheric conditions  
Optical systems are provided. One such optical system includes an optical source that propagates a source beam of light. A diffracting component is optically coupled to the optical source and is...
6833955 Compact two-plane optical device  
An optical device for enlarging an eye box, the optical device comprising: (a) a first optical expander being carried by, or formed in, a first light-transmissive substrate engaging a first plane;...
6833954 Lithographic method for manufacturing a mask used in the fabrication of a fiber Bragg grating  
The invention reduces the effects of stitching errors from re-scaling or re-positioning in the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings or the mask used in such fabrication. A first embodiment of the...
6832022 Rectangular response optical filter for partitioning a limited spectral interval  
The invention concerns a rectangular response optical filter for partitioning a limited spectral interval in a light flux with large spectrum comprising: a preferably monomode input optical fiber...
6831783 Diffractive optical element and optical system  
A diffractive optical element includes a first layer having a relief-type grating, a second layer having a relief-type grating, and a third layer having a relief-type grating. The first, second and...
6829096 Bi-directional wavelength division multiplexing/demultiplexing devices  
A bi-directional wavelength division multiplexing/demultiplexing device is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the bi-directional wavelength division multiplexing/demultiplexing device comprises...
6829090 Prism, projection device and optical component  
A prism optimally separating and synthesizing a light beam of a wide angle of incidence. A diffraction prism 15 of the present invention is so constructed that a diffraction grid 21 is...
6825981 Optical signal processor  
The present invention relates to an optical signal processor which can multiplex or demultiplex multiwavelength signal light. The optical signal processor includes an optical input/output...
6822795 Dynamic image device with diffractive optical element  
Invisible different monochromatic images are inscribed in a diffractive optical element. Each of the images appears when a specific light source is on and image disappears when the specific light...
6819490 Homogenization of a spatially coherent radiation beam and printing and inspection, respectively, of a pattern on a workpiece  
The present invention relates to a device for homogenizing the spatial intensity distribution of a spatially coherent radiation beam. The device includes a grating arranged in the propagation path...
6819491 Objective lens unit for optical pickup, optical pickup and disc driving device  
An objective lens unit for an optical pickup used for recording and/or reproducing information signals from an optical disc. The objective lens unit includes a resin layer ( 21 ) having,...
6819835 Tunable filter device  
A tunable filter device ( 10 ) has a plurality of input waveguide channels ( 141, 142, 143 ), a plurality of output waveguide channels ( 161, 162, 163 ) and a Bragg grating ( 13 ) which are formed...
6815065 All-dielectric optical diffractive pigments  
All-dielectric diffractive pigment flakes can be applied to an object to impart a diffractive effect to the object without substantially changing the background color of the object. In one case,...
6816648 Integrated waveguide gratings by ion implantation  
Integrated semiconductor waveguide gratings, methods of manufacture thereof and methods of apodizing thereof are described. A semiconductor waveguide grating includes a substrate, a cladding layer...
6813080 Metal-free gratings for wavelength-multiplexed optical communications  
The invention is directed to metal-free grating for use in wavelength optical communications, and in particular to metal-free, reflective immersed diffraction gratings. The gratings of the...
6813079 Fabricating optical waveguide gratings  
A method of fabricating an optical waveguide grating having a plurality of grating lines of refractive index variation comprises the steps of: (i) repeatedly exposing a spatially periodic writing...
6809864 Multi-layer structure with variable bandpass for monochromatization and spectroscopy  
A grating that includes a multilayer structure that has alternating layers of materials, a plurality of grooves formed between a plurality of lands, wherein at least one structural parameter of the...
6798574 Prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light  
The present invention relates to a prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light, and in particular to a prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light which is capable of spreading light...