Fujifilm Corporation

Makoto Kamo

Tatsuya Oba

Megumi Sekiguchi

Shinichi Morishima

Yujiro Yanai

Satoru Yamada

Yuki Hirai

Toshio Sasaki

Ryoji Himeno

Yukito Saitoh

Yoshihisa Usami

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Akira Yamamoto

Hideyuki Nishikawa

Katsumi Sasata

Naoyoshi Yamada

Shinya Watanabe

Shigeaki Nimura

Yutaka Nozoe

Hideki Kaneiwa

Shuntaro Ibuki

Junichi Hirakata

Naoki Koito

Shusuke Arita

Ryo Satake

A sensor including a light-receiving element; and an optical element that includes near infrared absorbing dichroic substance. The optical element has an absorption axis with respect to near infrared light in an in-plane direction. When linearly polarized light of near infrared light orthogonal to the absorption axis is radiated from a normal direction of the optical element and from a direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction at an azimuthal angle orthogonal to the absorption axis, an absorbance during the radiation from the direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction is more than an absorbance during the radiation from the normal direction.

Fingerprint recognition sensor and optical element

A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.

Lighting device

An object is to provide an optical coupling system having a simplified structure and a small size and an optical communication device using the optical coupling system. The object is achieved by an optical coupling system that couples a multi-core fiber and coupled devices to each other using a combination of a polarized light beam control element facing a light incident and emission surface of a multi-core fiber and a polarization-selective diffraction element that is positioned on a side of the polarized light beam control element opposite to the emission surface of the multi-core fiber and that faces the coupled devices.

Optical coupling system and optical communication device

Provided is a laminate exhibiting excellent reverse wavelength dispersibility, a circularly polarizing plate, and a display device. The laminate includes a first optically anisotropic film and a second optically anisotropic film, in which both of the first optically anisotropic film and the second optically anisotropic film have a slow axis in an in-plane direction, a maximum absorbance X in a wavelength range of 700 to 900 nm in a slow axis direction and a maximum absorbance Y in a wavelength range of 700 to 900 nm in a fast axis direction of the first optically anisotropic film are different from each other, and the slow axis of the first optically anisotropic film and the slow axis of the second optically anisotropic film are parallel with or perpendicular to each other.

Laminate, circularly polarizing plate, and display device

A fingerprint recognition sensor having an excellent S/N ratio and capable of realizing thinning and an optical element including the fingerprint recognition sensor. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes a light-receiving element; and an optical element including a near infrared absorbing dichroic substance, in which a fingerprint reading surface is positioned on a side of the optical element opposite to the light-receiving element side. The optical element has an absorption axis with respect to near infrared light in an in-plane direction. When linearly polarized light of near infrared light orthogonal to the absorption axis is radiated from a normal direction of the optical element and from a direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction at an azimuthal angle orthogonal to the absorption axis, an absorbance during the radiation from the direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction is more than an absorbance during the radiation from the normal direction.

A polarized light irradiation device of the present disclosure has: a light source unit which continuously emits polarized light; a light shaping unit which shapes the polarized light emitted from the light source unit into a preset shape to irradiate an irradiation target object with the shaped polarized light; a transport mechanism which transports the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit; and an interlocking mechanism which periodically and continuously changes a direction of linearly polarized light applied to the irradiation target object or an azimuthal angle of elliptically polarized light applied to the irradiation target object according to an amount of transport of the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit by the transport mechanism.

Polarized light irradiation device and exposure method for irradiation target object

A black structure includes a black layer and a light transmitting portion in a same plane, in which the black layer has a fine uneven structure having a period of 380 nm or less on a surface of the black layer on the viewing side, and a surface of the black layer opposite to the surface having the fine uneven structure is bonded to a base material. A self-luminous image display device includes a self-luminous image display panel and the black structure.

Black structure and self-luminous image display device comprising same

An object of the invention is to provide an optical laminate which has excellent workability in the production of a polarizing plate and is capable of suppressing the occurrence of cracks in the polarizing plate, a polarizing plate, a method of manufacturing the polarizing plate using the optical laminate, and an image display device having the polarizing plate. An optical laminate according to the invention has a polarizer, an optical anisotropic layer, and a masking layer in this order, and hardness HB of the masking layer and hardness HA of a layer adjacent to the optical anisotropic layer side of the masking layer satisfy Expression (1):&#xd7;0.5&#x2264;&#xd7;2&#x2003;&#x2003;(1).

Optical laminate, polarizing plate, method of manufacturing polarizing plate, and image display device

Provided is a wavelength conversion film-forming composition which forms a wavelength conversion film by being applied to a substrate to form a coating film and curing the coating film, the wavelength conversion film-forming composition including at least quantum dots, a volatile component, and a binder that is soluble in the volatile component and/or a binder precursor that is soluble in or compatible with the volatile component, in which the wavelength conversion film-forming composition is gellable in the presence of the volatile component.

Wavelength conversion film

Provided is a wavelength conversion member including: a wavelength conversion layer including at least one kind of quantum dots that are excited by excitation light to emit fluorescence and are dispersed in an organic matrix; and a barrier layer that is provided adjacent to at least one main surface of the wavelength conversion layer and includes silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component, in which the organic matrix is obtained by curing a curable composition including at least an alicyclic epoxy compound and includes a chemical structure A which is bonded to silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component of the barrier layer.

Wavelength conversion member, backlight unit including wavelength conversion member, liquid crystal display device, and method of manufacturing wavelength conversion member

The present invention provides a horizontal alignment-type liquid crystal display device including a viewing-side polarizing plate; a liquid crystal cell; a backlight-side polarizing plate; and a backlight, in this order, the liquid crystal cell includes a liquid crystal layer held between two substrates, at least any one of the substrates is a resin substrate, the polarizing plate provided on the resin substrate side includes a gas barrier film including a phase difference layer and an inorganic layer, and a polarizer, and the gas barrier film is on the resin substrate side with respect to the polarizer. In the horizontal alignment-type liquid crystal display device according to the present invention, thinning based on the use of the resin substrate is effectively realized, and a liquid crystal cell can be sealed.

Horizontal alignment-type liquid crystal display device

The optical film of the present invention is an optical film including a thermoplastic resin, in which the optical film has a moisture permeability of 70 g/m/day or less (in terms of a film thickness of 40 &#x3bc;m), and contains a moisture permeability-reducing compound having a molecular weight of 200 or more and satisfying Formula (1) described below. Formula (1) A/B&#x2264;0.9 (A represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which 10 mass % of the moisture permeability-reducing compound is added to the mass of the thermoplastic resin, and B represents a moisture permeability of an optical film in a case in which the thermoplastic resin is included and the moisture permeability-reducing compound is not added.)

Optical film and method for manufacturing same, polarization plate, and liquid crystal display apparatus

An aspect of the present invention relates to a wavelength conversion member, which comprises a wavelength conversion layer, wherein the wavelength conversion layer comprises at least one quantum dot which has a property of being excited with exciting light to emit fluorescence, and at least one oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent, an oxygen permeability coefficient per 1 mm thickness of the wavelength conversion layer is less than 150.0 cm/m/day/atm, and the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent is a compound which exhibits an oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing capability of reducing the oxygen permeability coefficient per 1 mm thickness of the wavelength conversion layer by equal to or more than 30% per 10 parts by weight of the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent relative to 100 parts by weight of the wavelength conversion layer except for the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent.

Wavelength conversion member, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display device

In order to record an interference fringe pattern in a recording layer of a medium, a plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere so as to form interference fringes in the recording layer; and during a time period over which the plurality of laser beams are caused to interfere, the following steps are continuously performed: (1) producing a signal varying according to a shift of a specific position in the recording layer; and (2) shifting a fringe-forming position in the recording layer by changing a phase of at least one of the laser beams or moving the recording layer based upon the signal produced in the step (1).

Method and apparatus for recording interference fringe pattern

The present invention provides a holographic recording composition and a holographic recording medium comprising a recording layer formed with the holographic recording composition. The holographic recording composition comprises a bifunctional or greater isocyanate, a polyfunctional alcohol comprising a bifunctional alcohol and a trifunctional or greater alcohol, a titanocene-based radical polymerization initiator, a bifunctional or greater acrylate monomer, and an amidine salt denoted by General Formula (1).  In General Formula (1), R, R, and Reach independently denote an alkyl group, aryl group, amino group, or acyl group, Rand Rmay be bonded together to form a ring, Rand Rmay be bonded together to form a ring, and Adenotes an anion.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Kamo