Abstract:
An optical device includes a telecentric optical system, a variable wavelength interference filter, and a detection section, the variable wavelength interference filter includes a first reflecting film, a second reflecting film provided to a movable section, and an electrostatic actuator adapted to displace the movable section, an effective measurement area capable of transmitting a light with a wavelength, which is within a predetermined allowable range centered on a measurement center wavelength when an amount of the displacement of the movable section takes a maximum displacement value, is set in the first reflecting film and the second reflecting film, and the telecentric optical system guides the incident light to the variable wavelength interference filter so that a principal ray of the incident light is parallel thereto and perpendicular to the first reflecting film, and at the same time, collects the incident light in the effective measurement area.
Abstract:
A spectrometer includes: a tungsten lamp which emits light with no peak wavelength within a wavelength range of visible light and having a light amount increasing as the wavelength becomes longer; a violet LED which emits light having a peak wavelength within the wavelength range of visible light; a light mixer which mixes light emitted from the tungsten lamp and the violet LED; an etalon which receives light mixed by the light mixer and transmits light contained in the received mixed light and having a particular wavelength; a light receiving unit which receives light transmitted by the etalon; and a measurement control unit which changes the wavelength of light that can pass through the etalon and measures spectral characteristics of the light having passed through the etalon based on the light received by the light receiving unit.
Abstract:
To provide an organic electroluminescent device and a method of manufacturing the same, in which the organic electroluminescent device has an organic functional layer formed by a liquid phase method, the organic functional layer formed in a uniform thickness while maintaining an aperture ratio, thereby obtaining a uniform and high efficient emission. According to an organic EL device of the present invention, an organic EL element having an organic functional layer interposed between a pixel electrode and a common electrode is arranged on a substrate, and the organic functional layer is arranged in a region surrounded by a bank arranged along the periphery of the pixel electrode, and-at the same time, a hole injection layer and a light-emitting layer are stacked at the pixel electrode. A convex portion protruded at the hole injection layer is arranged on the pixel electrode and a part of the hole injection layer is interposed between the convex portion and the light-emitting layer.
Abstract:
A curved surface is provided under a range of conditions whereby light rays from a light source that are input from an end face of a light guide plate are guided within light guide plate. When light rays reach projecting shapes that are provided on plate face of light guide plate, they are output from light guide plate and illuminate object to be illuminated. With this construction, light guide plate has the function of transmitting with scarcely any dispersion rays of light that are directed on to object to be illuminated and that are reflected by object to be illuminated.
Abstract:
A reflection layer is provided on a surface of a light guiding body on which projections are formed with intervals, except the side surfaces of the projections. A light emitting element is provided close to one end surface of a light guiding element. Most of the light from the light emitting element is input to the light guiding body through the light input surface. The light travels through the light guiding body to be output from the side surfaces of the projections. After passing through a directional change element, the light is input to the light receiving element in a direction substantially perpendicular to a light receiving element. Outside light passes through the light receiving element and is then input to a lighting apparatus. In the lighting apparatus, the outside light passes through the directional change element to be reflected by a reflection layer on the light-output-side surface of the light guiding body and then again passes perpendicularly through the directional change element toward the light receiving element. When the light passes through the light receiving element, a displayed image can be viewed. The reflection layer can reflect the light with a small loss. In addition, if the outside light is input at an angle of other than 90.degree. to the light receiving element at first, the light can be reflected by the reflection layer with a small loss.
Abstract:
A background lighting apparatus includes a light entering edge surface around substantially the entire periphery of a highly internally reflecting transparent plate wherein light beams enter from peripheral light sources and travel toward the central portion of the plate and are dispersed and diffused by a diffusion system formed relative to the transparent plate. Uniformity of luminance provided from the background lighting apparatus is enhanced as a whole by increasing the incident quality of the input light beams into the transparent plate while easing the incident directivity of the light beams on the transparent plate with the overall substantial enhancement of luminance produced from the apparatus. Further, the temperature distribution on a liquid crystal panel positioned adjacent to the output surface of the background lighting apparatus is substantially uniform across the panel so that the transmission quality of the liquid crystal material, which is dependent upon ambient temperatures, is made substantially more uniform resulting in significantly higher levels of uniformity in luminance across the display as well as uniformity of displayed colors and gradations thereof emanating from the display panel.
Abstract:
A surface-type illumination device suitable for providing backlight in a liquid crystal display is disclosed. For example, an L-shaped fluorescent light can be used as an illuminant and mounted next to two edges of a substantially rectangular light guide plate. The corner of an edge portion between the two edges is removed. The fluorescent light, the length of whose illuminating portion is long, is positioned with an appropriate gap from the light guide plate allowing for illumination with high brightness and low power consumption. Consequently, when the illumination device is used in a color liquid crystal display, appropriate backlight with high brightness can be obtained. Moreover, because the influence of the temperature from the illumination device is small, a stable color display can be achieved.
Abstract:
A composite lighting device is provided, which is inexpensive and has high uniformity in brightness, in which light emitted from an end face of a backlight having an organic EL device is used to illuminate input buttons and the like. The lighting device includes a transparent substrate having one principal plane on which a transparent electrode film, a luminescent layer, and a reflective electrode film are at least formed. In the lighting device, a liquid crystal display unit is adjacently disposed on the other principal plane, and a light-guide element is adjacent to an end face of the substrate, so that input buttons embedded into the light-guide element are illuminated.
Abstract:
A front-end surface illumination device is provided which is high in visibility when it is illuminated or not, low in power consumption, and compact. When a light beam emitted from an organic electroluminescence element formed on an end face of a light transmission plate reaches projecting portions, the light is emitted from the light transmission plate, and irradiated on an illuminated object. In this constitution, the light transmission plate has the function of projecting the light beam to the illuminated object, and transmitting the light beam reflected by the illuminated object with little diffusion.
Abstract:
An optical modulator device, a display unit and an electronic apparatus, each capable of presenting a high-contrast and bright image. An optical modulator device 101 includes a substrate and, on the substrate, an optical modulator structure in which a piezoelectric thin film layer 13 having piezoelectric property is interposed between thin film electrode layers 12, 14 having electrically conductive property with at least one of the thin film electrode layers 12, 14 having light reflective property, wherein the optical modulator structure is driven on a mirror element by mirror element basis, with one mirror element 15 being handled as a unit working independently to modulate a light ray.