Abstract:
The focus detecting unit includes, a light source unit emanating a collimated light, an optical unit to be inspected, which is equipped with a container having translucency, a lens and liquid, a deflection unit which irradiates a light to the unit to be inspected by diffracting a light from the light source, a spot position detecting means 4 arranged near a backside focus plane of the optical unit to be inspected, and an operating means which calculates the composite focal length of a lens and liquid in the optical unit to be inspected by using the spot position detected by the spot position detecting means.
Abstract:
An illuminating light modulating device modulates at least one of wavelength, phase, intensity, polarization, and coherency of the light emitted to an object by an illuminating device. A pupil modulating device is disposed near a pupil plane of an objective lens, and modulates at least one of phase, intensity and direction of polarization of the luminous flux including the information of the object. An image pickup device is disposed on a plane on which the image of the object is formed by the objective lens and an imaging lens, and picks up the image of the object. An image analysis device analyzes the image of the object picked up by the image pickup device. A parameter decision device adjusts the modulation amounts of the illuminating light modulating device and the pupil modulating device by using the image information of the object analyzed by the image analysis device.
Abstract:
A light pulse multiprocessing unit has a half mirror and N delay elements, each having a refractive index n. The N delay elements are arranged on one side of the half mirror from one end of the half mirror toward the other end and have thicknesses Δ, 2Δ, . . . , 2N−1Δ different from each other, where Δ is the smallest thickness. The half mirror is placed in parallel in the proximity of an intermediate position between two mirrors and the N delay elements are arranged between one of the mirrors and the half mirror. Each of the N delay elements is a plane-parallel plate and is placed at an angle such that the direction of the normal line of the surface of the plane-parallel plate is different from a direction followed from one end of the half mirror toward the other end.
Abstract:
An optical unit includes a light source unit emitting parallel light; a light-receiving element array; and a prism rendering emitted light from the light source unit incident on a specimen placement section and introducing totally reflected light from the specimen placement section into the light-receiving element array. The prism has an entrance surface rendering the parallel light emitted from the light source unit incident on the prism, a curved reflecting surface which reflects light passing through the entrance surface and incident on the prism toward a focal position thereof, the specimen placement section of a planar shape provided at a position including the focal position of the curved reflecting surface, and an exit surface making light totally reflected at the focal position of the curved reflecting surface in the specimen placement section emerge into the outside of the prism.
Abstract:
An optical unit includes a light source unit emitting parallel light; a light-receiving element array; and a prism rendering emitted light from the light source unit incident on a specimen placement section and introducing totally reflected light from the specimen placement section into the light-receiving element array. The prism has an entrance surface rendering the parallel light emitted from the light source unit incident on the prism, a curved reflecting surface which reflects light passing through the entrance surface and incident on the prism toward a focal position thereof, the specimen placement section of a planar shape provided at a position including the focal position of the curved reflecting surface, and an exit surface making light totally reflected at the focal position of the curved reflecting surface in the specimen placement section emerge into the outside of the prism.
Abstract:
A microscope apparatus includes a microscope, and a time-resolved spectroscopy unit, a first light-guiding unit for guiding light from the speetroscopy unit into the microscope, a second light-guiding unit for guiding the light from the microscope into the spectroscopy unit. The microscope includes an illuminating optical system and an observing optical system. The time-resolved spectroscopy unit includes an ultrashort optical pulse source, a beam splitter for splitting the ultrashort optical pulse into a reference beam and another beam, an optical system for generating a pump beam and a probe beam from the beam other than the reference beam, and an imaging device for time-resolved spectroscopy for capturing an interference pattern formed by the light guided by the second light-guiding unit and the reference beam. A two-dimensional lightwave conversion optical system is interposed between the second light-guiding unit and the imaging device.
Abstract:
An optical information processing apparatus includes an image display section for displaying information on an object to be processed as image information, an image information reading section for converting a light from a light source into collimate light and projecting the collimate light onto the image display section to read image information, a Fourier transform optical system for obtaining the Fourier transform of the image information read by the image information reading section, an image dividing section for dividing the image information subjected to Fourier transform at the Fourier transform optical system, a filtering section for filtering the phase or amplitude information in one piece of the image information divided by the image dividing section, an inverse Fourier transform optical system for obtaining the inverse Fourier transform of the image information filtered at the filtering section, a filtering image information acquiring section for taking in the image information subjected to inverse Fourier transform at the inverse Fourier transform optical system, and a Fourier transform information acquiring section for taking in the other piece of the image information divided by the image dividing section.
Abstract:
A multiplexing optical system necessary for transforming input information into effective feature vectors at high speed and with high accuracy, without loss of a spatial frequency component of multiplexed object vector information, for example. Also presented are a feature vector transformation apparatus using the multiplexing optical system, and others. The multiplexing optical system performs a Fourier transform in parallel on multiplexed vector information lying in an input plane (R) as an object to be processed. The system includes a Fourier transform lens (30) for performing a Fourier transform in parallel, and satisfies the condition of (k.sub.R .lambda.f.sub.F /a
Abstract translation:例如,不需要损失多路复用对象矢量信息的空间频率分量,将输入信息以高速,高精度地变换成有效的特征向量所需的复用光学系统。 还提出了使用复用光学系统等的特征矢量变换装置。 复用光学系统在作为待处理对象的输入面(R)中的多路复用矢量信息上并行地进行傅里叶变换。 该系统包括用于并行执行傅里叶变换的傅立叶变换透镜(30),并且满足包含光轴的任意横截面中的(kRλfF/ a
Abstract:
A measuring instrument has a light source for irradiating light including rays of light having the wavelength of excitation light, an objective lens for focusing light irradiated from the light source to a predetermined focusing position, a first mirror for directly reflecting light from the objective lens, a second mirror for reflecting light reflected by the first mirror, the second mirror having an aperture P, and a measuring device for measuring light generated from a sample and having a wavelength different from the wavelength of excitation light, and the sample being arranged between the first mirror and the second mirror, the focusing position of the objective lens being made to agree with the position of the aperture P, and the measuring device being adapted to measure light of a wavelength different from the wavelength of excitation light generated from the sample and passing through the aperture P.
Abstract:
A mirror unit consists of a half mirror and a mirror unit. The half mirror generates a transmitted light and a reflected light. A pair of the mirror units is arranged on one side and the other side of the half mirror so that the transmitted light and the reflected light split by the half mirror are deflected and are combined again at a common place on the half mirror. The mirror unit also has plural mirrors and is arranged to make the optical length variable by shifting the mirror unit toward one direction with a moving mechanism.