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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7813038 | Light-scattering film, polarizing plate and image display A light-scattering film is provided and includes a transparent support having thereon at least a light-scattering layer. When substantially parallel light is incident on a surface of the film at an incident angle of 5°, the reflectance for an angle θ in the light-... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7706069 | Attenuator for high-power unpolarized laser beams Apparatus for attenuating an unpolarized laser beam includes a polarizing beamsplitter for separating the laser beam into two plane-polarized beams following separate paths. The two plane-polarized beams are polarization rotated by a single polarization rotator. Eac... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7636195 | Mirror with built-in display A mirror device (1) which can be simultaneously used for display purposes, based on e.g. an LCD display (5) with a polarizing mirror (2) placed in front of it. When the surface area occupied by the display is smaller than the surface area of the... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7583438 | Quantum circuit and quantum computer A quantum circuit and a quantum computer are capable of performing multi-bit quantum computation. In the quantum circuit, a quantum bit is represented by polarization directions of light, a sequence of polarized light pulses representing a quantum bit string is sequ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7551354 | Mirror with built in display A mirror device which can be simultaneously used for display purposes, based on e.g. an LCD display with a polarizing mirror placed in front of it. The polarizing mirror has the characteristics that it does not disturb the transmission of the light from the display,... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7463417 | Optical articles from curable compositions A curable composition is provided which includes an oligomer having a plurality of pendent and/or terminal ethylenically unsaturated, free-radically polymerizable functional groups, a free-radically polymerizable crosslinking agent, and/or a diluent monomer, and a p... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7433558 | Methods for optical isolation in high power fiber-optic systems Methods for optical isolation in high peak power fiber-optic systems prevent damage to a facet within a fiber-optic isolator caused by back-reflected light from, for example, an optical amplifier. Preventing damage to the facet may include expanding a mode area of t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7408710 | Polarizer device adapted to polarized light The invention provides a polarizer device. The polarizer device according to the invention is adapted to a polarized light having an electric field direction. In particular, the polarizer device according to the invention enables the polarizer to be automatically ad... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407686 | Optical film, polarizing plate and display device utilising the film, and production method of optical film An optical film is disclosed having minimal curl, minimal coating unevenness and no cracks. The optical film is obtained by casting a dope comprising a cellulose ester and a non-chlorinated solvent on a metal support, the cellulose ester having a total acyl substitu... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7369316 | Optical system for a digital light projection system including optical concentrator elements having reflective aperture elements An optical system for a digital light projection system is provided. The optical system comprises a plurality of LED arrays, wherein each LED array comprises a plurality of LEDs. The optical system also comprises an optical concentrator element positioned substantia... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362505 | Mirror with built-in display A mirror display device which may be simultaneously used for display purposes, based on a display, wherein the display device during use provides light of a first (circular) polarization, with a switchable polarizing mirror placed in front of it. The reflectivity of... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362507 | Polarizing beam splitter A polarizing beam splitter is disclosed that includes a first prism, a second prism, and a reflective polarizing film disposed between the first prism and the second prism. The first prism comprises a first polymeric material, and has a first outer curved surface an... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351346 | Non-photolithographic method for forming a wire grid polarizer for optical and infrared wavelengths A method for forming a plurality of parallel metal lines on a substrate of thin film elastomeric material and a wire grid polarizer formed by such method. A sacrificial layer is formed by coating the substrate with a water soluble polymer while the substrate is stre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349089 | High transmission multi-wavelength filter and method An optical arrangement and method of filtering include a beam splitter that accepts an incident beam and transmits light from the incident beam of a first polarization and reflects light from the incident beam of a second polarization. The transmitted light is a fir... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7335873 | Light condensing method and light condenser as well as near-field optical microscope and storage device formed by applying the same A light-condensing method of irradiating light whose electric field vectors show two or more than two different directions onto a member having apertures arranged at least at two positions and forming a light-condensing section having a strong electric field between... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333685 | Variable optical attenuator systems Low loss, reliable variable optical attenuators and 1×2 switches and polarization insensitive low loss, reliable variable optical attenuators and 1×2 optical switches are described. In one embodiment, a system of the present invention includes a polarization separ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330102 | Method of customizing a vehicle with decals, a vehicle decal assembly and a vehicle customized with decals in accordance with the method A method of customizing a vehicle with decals. A first step involves securing a film of light emitting material containing a matrix of pixels to a body of a vehicle. A second step involves providing a controller having a memory in which is stored at least one graphi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330314 | Color combiner for solid-state light sources An illumination apparatus has first and second optical condenser systems sharing a common aperture. The first optical condenser system has a first solid-state light source having a first spectral band and a first curved surface spaced apart from the first solid-stat... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326373 | Method for forming a wafer for use in an optical part An improved method is disclosed, for forming a wafer into a complex, curved shape, for use in an optical part. The method includes a step of moving the wafer into contact with a molding surface having a predetermined non-cylindrical, aspheric curved shape, to form t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317512 | Different polarization in cross-section of a radiation beam in a lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus comprises an illumination system having optical elements capable of conditioning a radiation beam to comprise in cross-section a first portion of linearly polarized radiation and a second portion of unpolarized or circularly polarized radiat... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311399 | Method of making a thermoplastic-based article and a thermoplastic-based article made thereby An article, such as a lens article (10, 10′, 10″, 100) containing a first component, e.g., a filter (14, 14′), or component thereof, having a minimum degradation temperature, and a second component, e.g., a substrate (22, 22′), comprisin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310144 | Polarimetry of three-dimensional optical fields The apparatus, system and method of the present invention provide a three-dimensional polarimeter probe having a coupler for coupling three components of an electromagnetic field that fluctuates in three-dimensions and an emitter for re-emitting a radiation correspo... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308171 | Method and apparatus for optical isolation in high power fiber-optic systems Methods and apparatus for optical isolation in high peak power fiber-optic systems prevent damage to a facet within a fiber-optic isolator caused by back-reflected light from, for example, an optical amplifier. Preventing damage to the facet may include expanding a ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304719 | Patterned grid element polarizer The invention relates to a patterned grid polarizer for use in lithography, comprising a substrate that is transparent to ultraviolet (UV) light; and an array of elements patterned on the substrate, wherein the elements polarize UV light. The array of elements can b... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301700 | Polarization beam splitter and optical system using the same, and image displaying apparatus, using the same The polarization beam splitter of the present invention includes a polarized beam splitting layer having a structure in which a plurality of gratings parallel to a first direction are periodically disposed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298940 | Illumination system and display system employing same A compact, light weight, efficient and cost-effective illumination system for optical displays is disclosed. The illumination system is capable of producing a self-luminous light beam of selected cross-section and spatial distribution in terms of intensity and angle... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7297393 | Optical film Birefringent optical films have a Brewster angle (the angle at which reflectance of p-polarized light goes to zero) which is very large or is nonexistent. This allows for the construction of multilayer mirrors and polarizers whose reflectivity for p-polarized light ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298540 | Equalizing optical wavelength routers A dynamic equalizing optical channel router includes an input port for receiving a wavelength division multiplexed composite optical signal comprising a plurality of channels; at least one output port; a diffraction grating optically coupled to the input and output ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286290 | Optical illumination apparatus An optical illumination apparatus has a polarization conversion device for converting light from a light source into light polarized uniformly in a predetermined manner and an optical integrator system for illuminating a display panel with the light polarized in the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280275 | High efficiency beam distribution with independent wavefront correction A beam distribution apparatus includes a stack of parallelogram prisms and beam-splitting coatings each located between opposing parallel faces of adjacent parallelogram prisms. The stack is mounted on an entrance face of a triangular prism. The triangular prism inc... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277182 | Apparatus for polarization-specific examination, optical imaging system, and calibration method A device for polarization-specific examination of an optical system having a detector part that has polarization detector means for recording the exit state of polarization of radiation emerging from the optical system. Also, an associated optical imaging system, an... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261418 | Projection apparatus A projection engine uses a first polarizing beam splitter (PBS) that substantially reflects light incident along a first input direction in a first polarization state and substantially transmits light incident in the first input direction in a second polarization st... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252424 | Backlight module capable of interchanging polarized states of light The provided backlight module includes a reflection sheet, a retardation plate, a light-guide plate, a light source, and a sub-wavelength grating plate. The retardation plate is set over the reflection sheet. The light-guide plate is disposed over the retardation pl... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251001 | Liquid crystal display device treated by UV irradiation A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine co... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244128 | Waterproof simplex receptacle A simplex receptacle body (102) includes a front portion (108) with a front surface (104) and a rear surface (106). Terminals (110) extend through the front portion (108). A clip (138) is “snap-fit” on a rear hous... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245432 | Dual diffraction-grating device A diffraction grating device (100) has both reflecting (108) and transmitting (106) gratings inter leaved to allow both transmission diffraction patterns and reflection diffraction patterns to be formed by means of the same device (102). ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245374 | Optical analysis system An optical analysis system (1), which is arranged to determine amplitude of a principal component of an optical signal, includes a first detector (5) for detecting the optical signal weighted by a first spectral weighting function, and a second detecto... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238307 | Method for pre-conditioning inserts for injection molding A method is disclosed for pre-conditioning inserts for improved replication during injection molding. The pre-conditioned inserts provide improved bonding with the injection-material and improved replication of complex molding surfaces. The pre-conditioning of the i... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232231 | Lens for rearview mirror A lens for a vehicle rearview mirror includes a light-transmissible glass substrate, which has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first coating layer, which has a reflectivity of 10–20% and is coated on the first surface of the g... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230760 | Polarizers and isolators and methods of manufacture A passively aligned optical isolator includes laminated layers of material including two polarizing glass layers sandwiching a Faraday rotator layer. Each polarizing glass layer comprises a glass matrix containing elongated metal particles exhibiting a change in pol... | 06/12/2007 |
