Abstract:
A light deflection element is capable of deflecting incident light so as to follow a position of an observer and suppressing reduction in intensity of light that reaches eyes of the observer regardless of their position. The light deflection element includes: a first optical element configured to deflect incident light; a second optical element configured to change a deflection direction of emitted light by changing a refractive index thereof according to a voltage applied thereto; a third optical element; and a control section configured to control the voltage applied to the second optical element. At least one of interfaces between the first and second optical elements and the second and third optical elements is an aspheric surface. The aspheric surface has an optical power that compensates enlargement of the emitted light which is caused by refractive index distribution caused when a voltage is applied to the second optical element.
Abstract:
An optical resonator includes: a light source that emits light; a diffractive element that diffracts the light emitted at the light source and incident thereon as s-polarized light; and an output coupler that resonates the s-polarized light diffracted by the diffractive element. The output coupler includes: a mirror arranged to reflect the light from the light source via the diffractive element; a polarization beam splitter arranged on a light path between the diffractive element and the mirror, and emitting, out of light incident thereon after emitted from the mirror, a p-polarized component to return to the light source and a s-polarized component as the output light; a quarter-wave plate arranged between the polarization beam splitter and the mirror, and having an optical axis providing a phase difference by a quarter wavelength in light incident thereon; and an adjuster that adjusts a direction of the optical axis of the quarter-wave plate.
Abstract:
A photovoltaic cell according to the present disclosure includes: a light-receiving lens having condensing function; a light guide element disposed at an emission surface side of the light-receiving lens; a translucent glass substrate mounted to be in contact with an emission surface of the light guide element; and a photoelectric conversion element which is disposed at a position opposite the light guide element and on which light emitted from the glass substrate is incident. The light-receiving lens is configured such that an incidence surface is a convex surface and an emission surface is formed into a Fresnel shape having positive optical power.
Abstract:
A photovoltaic cell according to the present disclosure includes: a light-receiving lens having condensing function; a light guide element disposed at an emission surface side of the light-receiving lens; a translucent glass substrate mounted to be in contact with an emission surface of the light guide element; and a photoelectric conversion element which is disposed at a position opposite the light guide element and on which light emitted from the glass substrate is incident. An incidence surface of the light guide element is a convex surface.
Abstract:
An image display apparatus includes a display device, a parallax barrier, and a controller. The display device displays an image for right-eye and an image for left-eye, with the images having a parallax amount between them. The parallax barrier directs, toward a right eye and a left eye, light of the images which are output from the display device. The controller controls the display device such that the display device continuously varies the parallax amount and the luminance of the displayed images and switches between a mode of showing the images to the both eyes and a mode of showing the corresponding image to any one of the eyes.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a virtual image display apparatus, head-up display system, and vehicle that distribute a spatially divided parallax image between a left eye and right eye of a user appropriately. The virtual image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display device configured to spatially divide with a first pitch and to output right-eye images and left-eye images, first optical members periodically disposed with a second pitch, distributing light based on the output from the display device between a right-eye direction and a left-eye direction, and a second optical member configured to reflect or refract, by positive power, the light distributed between the right-eye direction and the left-eye direction by the first optical members. The first pitch is narrower than the second pitch.
Abstract:
A backlight device and an image display apparatus which are capable of controlling the degree of diffusion of emitted light are provided. The backlight device according to the present disclosure includes: a light source; a light guide plate that causes surface emission of light emitted from the light source; a directivity control film that is provided on a light-emitting side of the light guide plate, and causes the light emitted from the light guide plate to have directivity; and a liquid crystal diffusion element that is switchable between a first state in which the light emitted from the directivity control film is transmitted as it is, and a second state in which the light emitted from the directivity control film is diffused.