Abstract:
To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of controlling deterioration of contrast even in the case where an opening is formed in an organic flattened film and the film has unevenness. In the liquid crystal display device that includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate, and liquid crystal sandwiched between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate and that drives the liquid crystal with a lateral electric field, the TFT substrate has the organic flattened film in which a through hole for contacting a source electrode of the TFT and a pixel electrode and a sectional shape of the through hole is asymmetrical between a side on which the pixel electrode extends and the other side.
Abstract:
The refractive index of the at least one photonic structure having two separate photonic bands is modulated, so that light supplied to the at least one photonic structure and initially in one of the two photonic bands of the traveling along a forward direction in the at least one photonic structure is converted to light in a second one of the photonic bands, and light in the one photonic band traveling along a backward direction opposite to the forward direction in the at least one photonic structure is not converted and remains in the one photonic band, achieving non-reciprocity.
Abstract:
A system for generating signals for Raman vibrational analysis, particularly for a CARS microscope or spectroscope of an external specimen, the system comprising a a laser source apt to emit at least one fundamental optical pulse in a first band of fundamental frequencies comprising at least one first (ωf1) and one second (ωf2) fundamental frequencies; a second-harmonic (SH) generating system comprising at least one nonlinear optical crystal for converting said at least one fundamental optical pulse into at least two second-harmonic optical pulses, i.e. a first second-harmonic pulse at a first second-harmonic frequency (ωp) of the first fundamental frequency (ωf1) and a second second-harmonic pulse at a second second-harmonic frequency (ωs) of the second fundamental frequency (ωf2), said second second-harmonic frequency being other than the first second-harmonic frequency, and a Raman vibrational analysis apparatus apt to receive said first and second second-harmonic pulses and direct them toward said specimen.According to an embodiment, the SH system comprises two nonlinear optical crystals, each including a ferroelectric crystal with periodic space-modulation of the sign of the optical susceptibility.In a different embodiment, the SH system comprises a ferroelectric crystal with aperiodic space-modulation of the sign of nonlinear optical susceptibility, with a period varying along the optical path of said at least one fundamental optical pulse, said crystal being apt to generate said first and second second-harmonic pulses.
Abstract:
This invention provides a post hole digger having a first, traverse pivot point, located on the lower section of two handle members, and a second, blade assembly pivot point located at the medial point of the blade assemblies. Because the first pivot point is a traverse pivot point, the handle members are only required to travel through a limited range of motion. Additionally, the second, blade assembly pivot point is preferably an offset pivot point. Thus, because the second, blade assembly pivot point is disposed at a medial point of the blade assemblies, the motion of the handle members, which are coupled to the upper ends of the blade assemblies, is reversed relative to the lower ends of the blade members.
Abstract:
A display device having a gate line on a first substrate, a gate insulating layer covering the gate line, a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer, a data line intersecting the gate line and including a source electrode and a drain electrode facing the source electrode on the semiconductor layer, a connection assistant separated from the data line, a passivation layer covering the data line and including contact holes exposing the connection assistant and a pixel electrode, including a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, and formed on the passivation layer. The sub-pixel electrodes are electrically connected to each other through the connection assistant and at least one of the sub-pixel electrodes is electrically connected to the drain electrode. The connection assistant is connected to facing edges of adjacent sub-pixel electrodes and is disposed at about ¼ the distance from the end of the left or the right side of the sub-pixel electrode.
Abstract:
A dual-image flat display device includes a first and a second substrates parallel with each other, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules, and at least a pixel disposed on the second substrate. The pixel includes pluralities of sub-pixels arranged side by side along a first direction. Each sub-pixel has a first azimuthal angle domain and a second azimuthal angle domain, wherein the first and second azimuthal angle domains are arranged side by side along a second direction in the sub-pixel, and the second direction is not parallel with the first direction. The azimuthal angles of liquid crystal molecules in the first and second azimuthal angle domains have an included angle less than 180°.
Abstract:
The optical device includes a substrate having an electrooptic effect; a plurality of optical waveguides formed in the substrate in parallel to one another; and a polarization inversion region which is disposed a part of the substrate and which has a polarization characteristic that is an inverse to that of the substrate, wherein a profile of a boundary between the polarization inversion region and a remaining region in which the polarization is not inverted is configured such that accumulated amounts of distortion that affects the respective waveguides over coordinates along a light propagation direction are substantially identical.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an electro-optic directional coupler suitable for use as a variable optical attenuator at reduced voltages compared to those known in the prior art. The present invention has found that by careful selection of an asymmetric directional coupler geometry, the transfer function of the device can be shifted so that it has an operating point between maximum and minimum transmission. Signal electrodes driven in push pull configuration advantageously use this operating point to achieve significant reduction in operating voltages for switching to maximum or minimum transmission. Asymmetry is created in the directional coupler by forming the waveguides to have different propagation constants by a difference in waveguide width, depth, index of refraction or index profile. Asymmetry can alternatively be created by causing mechanical stress in the waveguides through the placement, number, or dimensions of the electrodes, or through asymmetric dielectric structures between the waveguides and the electrodes.
Abstract:
A reflector is provided in a reflective or transmissive liquid crystal display device. In the reflector, when light is incident on the reflector in a first direction, a reflection characteristic profile of light reflected therefrom shows a reflectance distribution which is asymmetric with respect to a specular reflection angle of the incident light and shows a non-Gaussian distribution in which a maximum value of reflectance is within a reflection angle range smaller than the specular reflection angle of the incident light. In addition, when light is incident on the reflector in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a reflection characteristic profile of light reflected therefrom shows the non-Gaussian distribution, similar to the case in which the light is incident on the reflector in the first direction.
Abstract:
A method of making an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) adjusts the length of the arms of two Michelson Interferometers, (MI) to achieve desired wavelength response then combines the MIs to provide the MZI. An asymmetric MZI is, therefore, provided which comprises two asymmetric MIs optically connected back-to-back.