Abstract:
A totally reflecting strip mirror is utilized in a zoom lens system having an auto focus circuit replacing the partially reflective large mirror of the prior art to provide the same amount of radiation to the auto focus system with less waste, easier adjustment, and decreasing the necessary dimensions of the zoom lens system.
Abstract:
A detector for use in optical measuring instruments such as a double-beam spectrophotometer, comprising a photoelectric element having a photosensitive surface and a beam mixer disposed adjacent the photosensitive surface for causing each of two alternate light beams to be projected evenly and uniformly onto the photosensitive surface of the photoelectric element thereby to eliminate errors which would otherwise be caused in the result of measurement due to local difference in sensitivity of the photosensitive surface of the photoelectric element. The beam mixer comprises a symmetrical pair of light diffusing plates so arranged as to form a roof-shaped configuration and a tublar body having one end opening closed by the pair of light diffusing plates and the opposite end opening closed by the photosensitive surface of the photoelectric element.
Abstract:
This specification discloses an apparatus disposed in the light beam from an object passed through an imaging lens for producing an output variable with movement of the image of the object by the imaging lens in the direction of the optical axis. The apparatus produces, when the image of the object is formed on a predetermined imaging plane, an output corresponding to a critical value representative of the in-focus of the imaging lens to the object and produces, when the image of the object is formed at a position deviated from the predetermined imaging plane, an output corresponding to the amount of said deviation. The apparatus includes detector means disposed at a position biased in the direction of the optical axis from the predetermined imaging plane so as to produce an output corresponding to the critical value when the image of the object is formed on a plane biased by a predetermined amount in the direction of the optical axis from the predetermined imaging plane and to produce an output corresponding to the predetermined amount of bias when the image of the object is formed on the predetermined imaging plane, memory means in which a data representative of the predetermined amount of bias is prerecorded, and means for correcting the output of the detector means on the basis of the prerecorded data.
Abstract:
An apparatus as described for reading an optical radiation-reflecting information carrier, which apparatus comprises an opto-electronic focussing error detection system with two focussing detectors. The path of the read beam which has been reflected by the information carrier and which originates from the read spot includes a single radiation-deflecting element, in such a way that the radiation which is incident on this element is deflected towards the focussing detectors.
Abstract:
An apparatus for electrooptically focusing the objective in a single lens reflex camera provided with a focusing screen and a split image wedge rangefinder, where focus detectors are used in which an image segment is scanned in an image plane. The focusing window of the focusing screen provided with a split image wedge rangefinder (5) is followed by a pentaprism (8) having a first plane reflecting surface which is partly reflecting. The scanning grating (14) and the photoelectric detector system (17,18) are mounted in the direction of the light beam behind this plane surface of the pentaprism and along the optical axis deflected by one of the wedges (5a) and an optics (11) is present along the optical axis to image the plane of one of the wedges (5a) into that plane where the scanning takes place.
Abstract:
An automatic focussing apparatus comprises a first drive element for repeatedly oscillating a movable reflecting mirror of an optical system of the range finder type, a second drive element for moving a focussing lens, a first signal generating component for producing a first signal when the amounts of light received by a stationary reflecting mirror and the movable reflecting mirror of the optical system are equal to each other, a second signal generating component for producing a second signal indicative of the position of the focussing lens, and a decision component for deciding the direction in which the focussing lens is to be moved in accordance with the relative timing of the first and the second signals.
Abstract:
Behind an objective which is axially movable, is provided a beam splitter to divide the light path passing through the objective into two light paths. In one of the light paths on the image plane of the objective is located a prism. Behind the prism is provided a photodetector in the optical path includng the prism. In the optical path which does not have the prism also is provided a photodetector at a position which is optically conjugate with the other photodetector. The output of the photodetectors are connected to an output comparing circuit which is connected to a servomotor for controlling the position of the objective. When the outputs of the two photodetectors are equal to each other, the servomotor is stopped.
Abstract:
An apparatus is described for reading a record carrier with an optical information structure, in which apparatus errors in the focussing of a read beam on the information plane are detected with an astigmatic focussing-error detection system.By including a beam splitter in the path of a beam which has been reflected by the record carrier and by including an astigmatic focussing-error detection system in each of the paths of the two sub-beams thus obtained, the astigmatism of the one detection system being opposed to that of the other detection system, a focussing-error signal can be derived which is independent of optical faults in the read apparatus.
Abstract:
A cuvette for liquid chromatographic analysis and like determinations having a chamber through which the liquid being analyzed flows, a single optical body for directing exciting light to the chamber and emitted light to a detector and means for holding the optical body in intimate contact with the chamber.
Abstract:
Multi-channel analyzer for the optical comparison of sample fractions separated by liquid chromatography for detecting differences or ratios between, for example, reference and sample, solvent and sample, buffer and sample, or two different samples, having a single light source, a single dispersing element and a single collimating, refocusing optic for each spectrum produced, wherein the reference and sample passing through flow cuvettes are exposed and the ratio or difference between the optical characteristics of the reference and the sample are read.