摘要:
An optical device capable of illuminating visual light with adjusting color temperature after fabrication is disclosed. The optical device includes a solid state light emitter and a phosphor layer, which is formed over the solid state light emitter. The solid state light emitter, which can be a light emitter diode (“LED”), converts electrical energy to blue light. The phosphor layer subsequently converts first light with a first wavelength to second light with a second wavelength. In one example, the first light is blue light while the second light is white light. A portion of the phosphor layer is adjusted after the phosphor layer is formed for adjusting color of the white light in accordance with color quality of the light detected by a light detector.
摘要:
Apparatus and methods for wavelength-dependent detection are provided. A detector includes a hybrid filter having unpatterned and patterned filter layers and at least one light-detecting sensor that detects light in first and second wavelength bands from the patterned filter layer of the hybrid filter. The unpatterned filter layer passes light in two nonoverlapping wavelength bands relative to light in wavelength bands between or among the nonoverlapping wavelength bands. The patterned filter layer includes first and second regions configured respectively to pass light in the first and second wavelength bands of the nonoverlapping wavelength bands passed by the unpatterned filter layer.
摘要:
A camera flash is disclosed for producing a warm light having a desired color temperature. In one embodiment, the flash has a xenon flash component producing a light with a spectrum having a color temperature at a higher Kelvin rating than the warm light, and a light emitting diode flash component producing a light with a spectrum having a color temperature at a lower Kelvin rating than the warm light. The color temperature of the light of the xenon flash component and the color temperature of the light of the light emitting diode flash component together produce the warm light having the desired color temperature.
摘要:
A system and method for tracking an input device uses positional information of a display screen in frames of image data to determine the relative position of the input device with respect to the display screen.
摘要:
First and second substrates are spaced apart and joined around a perimeter to define a gas chamber between the substrates. The first substrate is made of a material that transmits visible radiation. A layer of a phosphor material overlies an interior surface of one of the substrates and is capable of converting UV radiation to visible radiation. A layer of a reflective material overlies an interior surface of the other one of the substrates.
摘要:
A projection optical system for digital lithography. The system includes an Offner imaging system defining an optical axis and having a well-corrected region. The system also includes spatial light modulators circumferentially arranged about the optical axis, such that optical beams emitted thereby propagate through the Offner imaging system within the well-corrected region.
摘要:
A projection optical system for digital lithography includes an Offner imaging system with a defined optical axis. The Offner imaging system has a well-corrected region. The system includes means for shaping an optical beam having an extent too large to fit within the well-corrected region to propagate through the Offner imaging system within the well-corrected region.
摘要:
The optical module optically aligns two adjacently located optical components. The optical module comprises a substrate and at least one pre-alignment groove formed therein for coarsely aligning the two optical components. The optical components are seated in the at least one groove with a gap between them. The optical module further comprises a waveguide core located in the gap between the two optical components. The waveguide core extends from a light-guiding portion of one optical component to a light-guiding portion of the other optical component and guides light from one optical component to the other.
摘要:
A method of digital grayscale control using light source modulation. First, a light valve, grayscale data, and a light source are provided. The light valve includes a spatial light modulator with at least one pixel. The grayscale data indicates desired grayscale level for the pixel during a frame period. The light source is configured to illuminate the pixel, to generate light with increasing intensity for a rise-time after electric power to the light source is substantially increased, and to generate light with decreasing intensity for a decay-time after electric power to the light source is substantially reduced. The light source may be an arc-lamp. The rise-time and the decay-time taken together may constitute a majority of the frame period. During the frame period, the electric power to the light source is substantially increased and is substantially decreased. Substantially decreasing the electric power to the light source may include turning off the electric power. The frame period is divided into at least four time slices with independent durations so that at least one of the at least four time slices occurs completely during the decay time. This may include selecting the at least four independent durations so that a product of each of the at least four independent durations and an average intensity of the light generated by the light source over each of the at least four time slices, respectively, has a binary weighted value, respectively. The pixel is independently set to one of an 0 state and an 1 state during each of the at least four time slices of the frame period based on the grayscale data.
摘要:
A heated ferroelectric liquid crystal-based spatial light modulator (SLM) that minimizes pixel sticking when operated in a non-DC-balanced mode with spiking and method for using same. The SLM comprises a transparent electrode, a pixellated electrode, ferroelectric liquid crystal material, and a heater. The ferroelectric liquid crystal material is sandwiched between the transparent electrode and the pixellated electrode. The heater is capable of heating the ferroelectric material to at least 40.degree. C. and preferably to between 50 and 60.degree. C. The invention may also provide a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the SLM and a temperature control circuit that is electrically connected to both the temperature sensor and the heater. The temperature sensor may be a diode located proximate to the pixellated electrode or a photo-diode located remote from the spatial light modulator. The heater may be integrated into and encapsulated by a substrate supporting the pixellated electrode or it may be supported on a second major surface of the substrate. The method according to the invention includes providing a SLM, preheating the SLM, and operating the SLM in a non-DC-balanced mode with spiking while monitoring and maintaining the a temperature of the SLM above 50.degree. C.