摘要:
An imaging apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a lens optical system L, an imaging device N including a plurality of first and second pixels P1 and P2, and an arrayed optical device K, wherein: the lens optical system L includes a first optical region D1 which primarily passes therethrough light oscillating in a direction of a first polarization axis and a second optical region D2 which passes therethrough light oscillating in every direction; and the arrayed optical device K makes light having passed through the first optical region D1 incident on the first pixels P1 and makes light having passed through the second optical region D2 incident on the second pixels P2.
摘要:
A measurement method and an evaluating apparatus are provided which are capable of easily and accurately evaluating the light amount of a spot beam, the diffraction efficiency, and the intensity distribution in the optical axis direction by detecting even a weak diffracted beam in an arbitrary wavelength range converged by a diffraction optical element as an imaging lens.
摘要:
An imaging optical system according to the present invention includes a lens that has first and second surfaces and that has a diffraction grating on only one of the first and second surfaces. If the diameter of an effective area, which is defined by a light ray that has entered the lens with a maximum angle of view, is D when measured on the surface with the diffraction grating, an F number of the imaging optical system at the maximum angle of view is Fno, a d-line Abbe number of the lens is νd, and an F number of an axial bundle of rays is F, then the average diffracting ring zone pitch of the effective area satisfies 0.008 ≤ Λ D × Fno ≤ 0.00031 · vd · F
摘要:
A measurement method and an evaluating apparatus are provided which are capable of easily and accurately evaluating the light amount of a spot beam, the diffraction efficiency, and the intensity distribution in the optical axis direction by detecting even a weak diffracted beam in an arbitrary wavelength range converged by a diffraction optical element as an imaging lens.
摘要:
A composite material (10) includes a resin (12), and first inorganic particles (11) dispersed in the resin and containing at least zirconium oxide. The composite material has a refractive index at the d line nCOMd of not less than 1.60 and an Abbe's number νCOM of not less than 20, and satisfies a relationship nCOMd≧1.8−0.005 νCOM. This composite material exhibits both a high refractive index and low dispersion in good balance, and has excellent workability. Accordingly, using this composite material makes it possible to realize a small optical component having favorable wavelength characteristics.
摘要:
A diffractive optical element that can be molded readily, an imaging apparatus incorporating the diffractive optical element, and a method for manufacturing the diffractive optical element are provided. A diffractive optical element (10) includes a substrate (11) that is made of a first material containing a resin and has a surface (11a, 11b) on which a diffraction grating pattern (12a, 12b) is formed, and a coating film (13a, 13b) that is made of a second material containing a resin and is disposed so as to be in contact with a portion of the diffraction grating pattern (12a, 12b), and at least one material selected from the first material and the second material is a composite material containing inorganic particles.
摘要:
[Object] A measurement method and an evaluating apparatus are provided which are capable of easily and accurately evaluating the light amount of a spot beam, the diffraction efficiency, and the intensity distribution in the optical axis direction by detecting even a weak diffracted beam in an arbitrary wavelength range converged by a diffraction optical element as an imaging lens.[Means for Attaining the Object] Light emitted from a white light source 11 passes through a wavelength band-pass filter 12 and is diaphragmed by a pinhole slit 13. The resultant light is paralleled by a collimator lens 14 and enters a diffraction optical element 16 as an imaging lens. The light getting out from the diffraction optical element 16 is converged to be a spot beam 17, is magnified by a microscope 18, and is then projected on a CCD 19. A distance changing member 56 changes the distance between the CCD 19 and the diffraction optical element 16, and then, the intensity distribution in the optical axis direction is measured. In-plane intensity distribution perpendicular to the optical axis is also measured.
摘要:
A diffractive imaging lens 10 includes a surface on which a diffraction grating pattern is formed. The diffraction grating pattern is formed of a plurality of steps formed concentrically with an optical axis (25) at a center. The diffraction grating pattern is formed such that a first portion where amounts (di) of the steps are substantially the same in a radial direction of concentric circles and a second portion, outside of the first portion, where amounts (di) of the steps decrease with distance from the optical axis 25 are provided, or such that the amounts (di) of the steps decrease with distance from the optical axis 25 over the entire diffraction grating pattern.
摘要:
A first substrate on which an optical-waveguide groove is formed and a second substrate. The second substrate is bonded to the plane of the first substrate on which the optical-waveguide groove is formed by a material having a refractive index higher than those of the first substrate and second substrate. The optical-waveguide groove is filled with the material, and the refractive index of the first substrate is different from the refractive index of the second substrate.
摘要:
In a method for forming an image of a subject on a solid-state imaging device, a first time period for splitting a light beam from a subject into a plurality of light beams that have different polarization directions and then combining the plurality of light beams to form a single subject image on the solid-state imaging device and a second time period for splitting the light beam from the subject into the plurality of light beams that have different polarization directions and forming a plurality of subject images that overlap each other partially on the solid-state imaging device are switched time-wise. A first image information on the single subject image is obtained based on pieces of signal information in the first time period, and a second image information on one of the plurality of subject images is calculated by using and computing pieces of signal information in the second time period. Then, the high-resolution image of the subject is achieved by using the first image information and the second image information. In this way, it is possible to obtain an image with a high resolution and a reduced noise with substantially no loss of the light beam from the subject.