Abstract:
A fluorescence microscope includes a nearly monochromatic light source, a Brewster angle wedge, and an optical system for irradiating a sample with a light beam from the light source and directing fluorescence light from said sample onto the Brewster angle wedge. Collection optics are provided for focusing a hyper-spectral, wide angle and dark field image of the sample from the Brewster angle wedge onto recording optics.
Abstract:
A fluorescence microscope includes a nearly monochromatic light source, a Brewster angle wedge, and an optical system for irradiating a sample with a light beam from the light source and directing fluorescence light from said sample onto the Brewster angle wedge. Collection optics are provided for focusing a hyper-spectral, wide angle and dark field image of the sample from the Brewster angle wedge onto recording optics.
Abstract:
The current application is directed to a new, highly dispersive optical element that is characterized by binary transmissibility. Various alternative implementations of the new optical element (“NOE”) are fashioned from semiconductor materials, including binary III-V and II-VI semiconductor materials. When applied as components within various optical devices and systems, the NOEs are fashioned to have shapes that provide high dispersion at non-extreme exit angles. The NOEs are additionally coated with multiple anti-reflective coatings which facilitate high transmission, in excess of 90 percent, across a wide range of visible and infrared wavelengths.
Abstract:
A device for generating solar electrical energy generally includes an optic for focusing solar radiation, a collimating optic, a semi-conductor optical gates wedge disposed near the focal point of the collimation optic for dispersing incident solar radiation between a plurality of adjacent wavelength bands, an array of photovoltaic cells, each cell being formed from a material for absorbing and converting a corresponding wavelength band dispersed by the wedge into the photovoltaic energy, and a refracting optic disposed between the wedge and the array for directing separated wavelength bands onto corresponding photovoltaic cells.