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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139292 | Structural body, a method for reading a structural color and/or diffraction light, and a truth/false discriminating method Decoration of a material is enabled with a high degree of recycling properties while satisfying the requirements for putting a structural color into practical use on the industrial scale. Furthermore, whether an object is genuine or not can be verified easily, and r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8081382 | Reflective screen, display device, and mobile apparatus A reflective screen includes: a substrate having a first refractive index; and a periodic structure provided on a major surface of the substrate and including a periodic film which has a period Λ and is made of a material having a second refractive index that is hi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8027090 | Optical element, replica substrate configured to form optical element An optical element includes a base and many structures arranged at a fine pitch on a surface of the base, each of the structures being in the form of a projection or a depression, in which the structures constitute a plurality of arc tracks, and the structures in ev... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027089 | Minute structure and its manufacturing method A manufacturing method of a minute structure having fine structures on opposing inner surfaces, includes the steps of forming a first pattern in a surface of a first layer, forming a sacrificial layer on the patterned surface of the first layer, forming a second pat... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014070 | Membrane grating for beam steering device and method of fabricating same A method of fabricating a membrane structure for a diffractive phased array assembly is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a wafer having a body and at least a membrane layer and a backside layer disposed on opposite faces of the body, forming a gr... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7940457 | Energy-efficient optoelectronic smart window In an aspect, described herein is a dynamically controllable optoelectronic smart window which utilizes a diffraction grating for selective transmission or rejection of a specific region of the electromagnetic spectrum, for example the infrared, near-infrared and/or... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936512 | Optical gating system using moiré effect To provide an optical gating system capable of performing single-shot, parallel, and ultrafast gating equal to or less than a subpicosecond, without depending on coherence. The optical gating system converts signal light to spatial characteristic signal light whose ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7898735 | Methods and systems for writing an optical code within or on a fiber substrate A system for writing an optical code within or on a fiber substrate. The system includes a holding device that has a plurality of supports spaced apart from each other. The fiber substrate is wound about the supports such that the fiber substrate forms at least one ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7864423 | Spectrally adjustable filter Spectrally filtering at least one input beam includes: dispersing spectral components of at least one input beam at respective angles in a spectral plane; changing at least some of the angles of the propagation axes of the dispersed spectral components so that a plu... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7843638 | Optical system for light flux transfer, and retinal scanning display using such an optical system The present invention provides an optical system that can reduce the occurrence of aberration, and a scanning retinal display that uses such an optical system. A first diffraction section and the second diffraction section are attached to a light guiding section in ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7800824 | Method for designing gratings A method for designing a grating comprises steps of (a1) generating a first diffraction spectrum based on calculation values of a plurality of structural parameters, (a2) calculating a first difference value between the first diffraction spectrum and a first nominal... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796333 | Encoded microparticles and a method for fabricating A method for fabricating microparticles. The method includes providing a removable substrate that has a photosensitive material. The substrate has a plurality of inner regions. Each inner region surrounds a corresponding outer region. The method also includes provid... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791802 | Optical identification element having a non-waveguide substrate An optical identification element including a non-waveguide optical substrate. The optical substrate has a volume and includes an inner region surrounded by an outer region. The inner region has an index of refraction that prevents the optical substrate from forming... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7777953 | Method for producing a grating image, grating image and security document To produce a grating image for a security document, a contour line (9) is filled with hatching lines (11) with the help of a drawing program, grating coordinates are calculated from the intersection points between the hatching lines (11) and the... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755834 | Wavelength-selective diffraction element and optical head device incorporating the same The present invention provides a wavelength-selective diffraction element, configured such that light having a plurality of wavelengths are incident thereon as incident light, which is provided with: a transparent substrate; a concavo-convex part, formed on the tran... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746558 | Method for producing grating images A method for producing a grating image, which has at least one grating field recognizable with the naked eye, in which are disposed grating elements, which are produced by a writing apparatus. In a first procedure step at least one grating element is determined, whi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7688511 | Diffraction type light-condensing film and planar light source device using the same Provided are an easy-to-handle thin diffraction type light-condensing film exhibiting high light transmissivity and condensation ability, and a planar light source device using the film. A hologram optical element using diffraction/interference phenomena based on wa... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7639422 | Device for generating an array of light spots The invention relates to a device for generating a periodical array of light spots from an input light beam, said device comprising—a periodical array of apertures (202) forming a plurality of interlaced sub-arrays of apertures,—phase shifter elements (PS... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7586684 | Solute characterization by optoelectronkinetic potentiometry in an inclined array of optical traps A method and apparatus for selecting a specific fraction from a heterogeneous fluid-borne sample using optical gradient forces in a microfluidic or fluidic system are presented. Samples may range in size from a few nanometers to at least tens of micrometers, may be ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7573638 | Diffractive optical element and method of its formation Practical diffractive optical elements are made available efficiently and at low-cost. A refractive-index-modulated diffractive optical element includes a transparent DLC (diamond-like carbon) film (2) formed on a transparent substrate (1), with the DL... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570427 | Geometrical phase optical elements with space-variant subwavelength gratings A space variant polarization optical element for spatially manipulating polarization-dependent geometrical phases of an incident light beam. The element comprises a substrate with a plurality of zones of gratings with a continuously varying orientation. The orientat... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561333 | Method for manufacturing mold A mold manufacturing method for manufacturing a mold with which a diffractive lens array of high accuracy can be molded by the following steps: creating a set of coordinates of form points indicating a form of a concave portion which has a saw-toothed surface; deriv... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7499216 | Wide field-of-view binocular device A binocular device for transmitting an image into the eyes is provided. The binocular device comprises a first monocular device, for providing one eye with a first asymmetric field-of-view, and a second monocular device for providing another eye with a second asymme... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7444049 | Pulse stretcher and compressor including a multi-pass Bragg grating A chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system and method is described wherein the pulse is stretched using multiple passes through a Bragg grating or compressed using multiple passes through a Bragg grating. A switch may be used to control the number of passes through ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443587 | DOE-based systems and devices for producing laser beams having modified beam characteristics Novel methods are disclosed for designing and constructing miniature optical systems and devices employing light diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for modifying the size and shape of laser beams produced from a commercial-grade laser diodes, over an extended range... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440174 | Coherent fiber diffractive optical element beam combiner An optical beam combiner and a related method for its operation, in which multiple coherent input beams are directed onto a diffractive optical element (DOE) along directions corresponding to diffraction orders of the DOE, such that the DOE generates a single output... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440188 | Diffractive optical element A conventional diffractive optical element (DOE), which consists of repetition of a unit pattern , has an advantage of applicability of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm to calculate diffraction beam spots intensities on lattice points on an image plane. But, the... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433123 | Optical identification element having non-waveguide photosensitive substrate with diffraction grating therein An optical identification element (also known herein as a microbead) that is made from pieces of an optical fiber or substrate that includes an inner core or region being surrounded by an outer cladding region. The optical fiber or substrate has an identification co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433124 | Illumination system to eliminate laser speckle and a single-panel projection system employing the same An illumination system designed to eliminate laser speckle and a single-panel projection system employing the same. The illumination system includes a laser light source to sequentially emit a plurality of laser beams, and a first diffractive optical element that is... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433290 | Complex objective lens, optical head, optical information apparatus, computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder, and optical disk server A complex objective lens composed of a hologram and an objective lens, capable of realizing stable and high-precision compatible reproducing/recording of a BD with a base thickness of about 0.1 mm for a blue light beam (wavelength λ1) and a DVD with a base t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430076 | Diffraction element A diffraction element having concave/convex-like diffraction gratings in its two surfaces from which at least two separated light beams can be taken in the same direction without changing largely the propagating direction of diffracted light even if the temperature ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428100 | Wide-angle beam steering system A beam steering system having first diffraction gratings, each one being associated with a corresponding one of a first plurality of grating vectors disposed substantially in a first plane. The gratings diffract optical energy from any one of a plurality of input di... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420733 | Electrically switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal materials including switchable optical couplers and reconfigurable optical interconnects A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance with the invention preferably comprise a homogeneous mixture of a ne... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418170 | Optical device and virtual image display device A virtual image display device is provided which displays a two-dimensional image for viewing a virtual image in a magnified form by a virtual optical system. The virtual image display device includes an optical waveguide (13) to guide, by internal total refl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411181 | System and method for manipulating and processing materials using holographic optical trapping A method and apparatus for manipulating particles (micro, nano, and pico) having one or more characteristics with an optical trap formed by modulating a laser beam with a Diffractive Optical Element (DOE). At least one characteristic of the material is selected; and... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405879 | Optically variable element having a variable distance-layer thickness The invention concerns an optically variable element and a security product having such an optically variable element, a foil, in particular an embossing foil or a laminating foil having such an optically variable element, and a process for producing such an optical... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400449 | System and method for reduction of image artifacts for laser projectors A system and method is disclosed for reducing visibility of image artifacts caused by diffractive elements in a laser projector having a structured diffractive device. At least two diffracted orders of light can be selected from light emitted from the structured dif... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388694 | Method, program and system for image drawing Laser information is prepared which indicates the irradiation interval and intensity level to be irradiated on an optical disc in advance. Then, when image drawing is indicated together with the indication of the forming spacing for pits, a laser is controlled so as... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387413 | Lighting apparatus, lens and method of making the lens In order to meet the legal requirements regarding color of light from a headlight, especially at the light-dark boundary and how much scattered light can occur in the dark region, a lens (5) is provided, which has a diffractive structure on at least one of it... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7375868 | Image scanning apparatus An image scanning apparatus for realizing an image on a screen includes: a spatial light modulator module for diffracting light beams having different wavelengths into relevant modes; and an iris for limiting light beams of modes except a mode of 0th-orde... | 05/20/2008 |
