Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for inspecting quantum efficiency homogeneity of a solar cell using a spatial light modulating device. The apparatus includes a light emitting device configured to radiate predetermined light; a spatial light modulating device configured to change a light path of rays emitted from the light emitting device according to individual control of a plurality of pixels; a spatial light modulating device controller configured to individually control the states of the plurality of pixels; a solar cell which the rays passing through or reflected from the spatial light modulating device irradiate; and a calculation controller configured to calculate quantum efficiency of the solar cell based on a photocurrent signal generated from the solar cell.
Abstract:
A device for controlling an amount of light of a lighting unit for use in an endoscope, used to view an image of an object. The device includes a light shield for shielding light generated by a light source and transmitted to the endoscope. A stepping motor drives the light shield for a series of predetermined time intervals. Brightness of the image is detected during each of the time intervals and pulses are generated during each of the time intervals. The number of pulses generated is determined in accordance with a difference between the brightness of the image detected during each of the time intervals and a desired brightness of the image. The pulses generated are used to drive the stepping motor in each of the plurality of time intervals.
Abstract:
A broadband radiometer including (a) an optical integrating sphere having aenerally spherical integrating chamber and an entry port for receiving light (e.g., having visible and ultraviolet fractions), (b) a first optical radiation detector for receiving light from the sphere and producing an electrical output signal corresponding to broadband radiation, (c) a second optical radiation detector for receiving light from the sphere and producing an electrical output signal corresponding to a predetermined wavelength fraction of the broadband radiation, and (d) an output for producing an electrical signal which is proportional to the difference between the two electrical output signals. The radiometer is very useful, for example, in measuring the absolute amount of ultraviolet light present in a given light sample.
Abstract:
A photoresponsive apparatus is disclosed which includes a photoresponsive device that provides an output or response having a characteristic which varies as a function of the radiant power and wavelength incident on a photoresponsive surface thereof. Included is a spectral filtering means associated with an optical assembly so as to provide the assembly with different f-number zones for each of the respectively different proportionalities of wavelengths such that the spectral composition of incident radiation reaching the surface is controlled by the spectral filtering means to effect a desired change in the response of the photoresponsive device.
Abstract:
A phototransducer has a silicon photovoltaic cell corrected with two glass filters to the standard ICI spectral response equivalent to the spectral response of the human eye. Also, a method for correcting variations in the manufacture of the glass filters to adjust the filter to the thickness required for ICI correction of the silicon photocell.
Abstract:
Calculator for determining proper exposure times in making color prints from color negative films comprises an opaque mask with three series of windows having respectively blue, green and red filters of graduated density. The windows have double wedge shape to provide contiguous points and other points remote therefrom. Color print paper is test exposed to light passing through the negative, a diffusion filter, and the graduated filters; when the paper is developed, the correct exposure time is indicated on the paper by the faintest double wedge image which has sharply defined points. A filter device for use in conjunction with the calculator comprises a wheel rotatably mounted on the lens barrel of a projector and having a series of openings: one clear for focusing, one with a diffusion filter for the test exposure, and the others with blue, green, and red filters respectively.
Abstract:
The present application provides an ambient light sensor and an electronic device, which may improve detection accuracy and detection performance of the ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensor includes: a light filtering unit array including a plurality of light filtering units, the plurality of light filtering units including a color light filtering unit, a white light filtering unit and a transparent light filtering unit, the white light filtering unit being configured to pass a visible light signal and block an infrared light signal, and the transparent light filtering unit being configured to pass the visible light signal and the infrared light signal; a pixel unit array including a plurality of pixel units, the plurality of pixel units being configured to receive a light signal after the ambient light passes through the plurality of light filtering units for an ambient light detection.
Abstract:
A technique of determining the presence of a species in a sample may include passing light through an optical filter. In an example, the optical filter may include a spatially variant microreplicated layer optically coupled to a wavelength selective filter. The wavelength selective filter may have a light incidence angle-dependent optical band. The spatially variant microreplicated layer may be configured to transmit light to a first optical region of the wavelength selective filter at a first predetermined incidence angle and to a second optical region of the wavelength selective filter at a second predetermined incidence angle.
Abstract:
A radiation-sensitive device configured to determine an ambient radiation intensity is disclosed. The device includes at least one set of optical filters comprising: a first optical filter having a first passband spanning a portion of a spectrum associated with a radiation-emitting device and a portion of an ambient radiation spectrum; and a second optical filter having a second passband spanning a portion of the spectrum associated with the radiation-emitting device and a portion of the ambient radiation spectrum, the second passband different to the first passband. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine, from an intensity of incident radiation sensed using the first and second optical filters and based on the spectrum associated with the radiation-emitting device, a contribution of ambient radiation to the intensity of incident radiation sensed using the first and second optical filters.
Abstract:
An optical filter may include a monolithic substrate. The optical filter may include a first component filter disposed onto a first region of the monolithic substrate. The first component filter may be a near infrared (NIR) bandpass filter. The optical filter may include a second component filter disposed onto a second region of the monolithic substrate. The second component filter may include a red-green-blue (RGB) bandpass filter. A separation between the first component filter and the second component filter may be less than approximately 50 micrometers (μm).