Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuharu Sawamura

Makoto Kameyama

Kazuoki Honguu

Kazuhiko Kikuchi

Masaaki Matsushima

Hiroyoshi Kishi

Katsuhiko Takano

Shigeharu Iijima

Eizo Sasamori

Hisaaki Kawade

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Junichi Sakamoto

Susumu Ito

Satoshi Yoshihara

Hidehiko Fujimura

Takahiko Ishiwatari

Akihiko Yokoyama

Mitsuhiro Tokuhara

Yasushi Taniguchi

Osamu Kamiya

Motomu Fukasawa

Junji Terada

Hiroshi Omata

Susumu Itoh

Sayoko Amano

Kazuoki Hongu

Susumu Abe

Seitoku Tsukamoto

Shumpei Tatsumi

Susumo Ito

Atsushi Oakuyama

Noboru Sugahara

A color combining optical system is disclosed, with which light of a plurality of colors can be combined while reducing the loss of light due to fluctuations in the incidence angle on a polarization color combining film. The color combining optical system, which combines a first color light and a second color light, includes a polarization color combining film made of a multilayer film. The polarization color combining film combines a first polarization component of the first color light and a second polarization component of the second color light, which has a polarization direction substantially perpendicular to the first polarization component, with an efficiency of 90% or more in a predetermined incidence angle range.

Color combining optical system and image projection apparatus

A reflection mirror includes an underlaying layer, a reflection layer, and a protective layer on a resin substrate in the order from the resin substrate, in which the reflection layer is composed of an Ag film, each of the underlaying layer and the protective layer includes at least one TiOfilm and at least one AlOfilm, and a film of the underlaying layer contacting the resin substrate is a TiOfilm.

Reflection mirror and optical equipment using the same

Disclosed is a polarization beam splitter and a method of producing the same, in which the polarization beam splitter has superior polarization separation efficiency and has small angle dependence. A transparent base material having a polarization separation film, comprising a dielectric multilayered film, is cemented at the cemented surface of the beam splitter, to provide an array-like plane type polarization beam splitter, wherein an incidence angle &#x3b8;g of light upon the polarization separation film is selected to satisfy a relation &#x3b8;g&#x3e;45 deg.

Polarization beam splitter and method of producing the same

A display apparatus includes a planar optical modulation device having a transparent substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon so as to be each capable of optical modulation thereat, and a masking member disposed on the transparent substrate and including spacings. The making member includes a layer of a metal compound containing C, O and a metal element. The masking member is effective in reducing a degree of reflection of external light (from a viewer side) while maintaining a sufficient light-interrupting property, thus resulting in a display apparatus exhibiting good display performances.

Display apparatus and process for production thereof

LCD with masking member having multiple portions having different

In formation of thin films on both surfaces of a substrate such as a lens or the like, a pair of cluster beam evaporation sources are provided in mutually separate manner in a film forming chamber. The substrate is disposed between the pair of cluster beam evaporation sources. The cluster beam evaporation source includes a crucible which is arranged to be inclined toward the substrate, or which has a nozzle on a lateral face opposed to the substrate.

Film forming method and apparatus therefor

A thin-film-type ND filter which attenuates the amount of light transmission is formed on a transparent substrate by using two or more types of metallic oxide having a refractive index n and an attenuation coefficient k which are in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 in the wavelength region of the visible region, making it possible to obtain flat transmittance characteristics.

Neutral density (ND) filter

An Optical filter is provided on a light receiving surface of an image sensor. The filter has a plurality of thin layers alternately laminated. The thin layers alternately consist of a dielectric layer having a high refractive index and a metal layer and each thin layer has its stress .sigma. in a range -5 GPa.ltoreq..sigma.&lt;-0.2 GPa.

Optical filter having alternately laminated thin layers provided on a

In a method of manufacturing a thin film, evaporated particles are generated by a vapor source and are clustered. The clustered evaporated particles are deposited onto a substrate in a vacuum atmosphere without ionizing the particles. A partial pressure of water in the vacuum atmoshpere is controlled to not more than 5.times.10.sup.-6 Torr. A temperature of the substrate is maintained to be 150.degree. C. or lower. A film according to this method has a high adhesion characteristics and a high mechanical strength without heating the substrate to a high temperature and without damaging the substrate by ions.

Cluster beam deposition method for manufacturing thin film

An evaporation material is employed to form an optical thin film which is adapted to be formed on an optical element such as a lens or the like. The evaporation material is provided such that zirconium oxide (ZrO.sub.2) is mixed with a titanium oxide (TiO.sub.A) having a molar ratio A(O/Ti) of oxygen to titanium in a range of 1.0 to 1.75 so that the mixture assumes a molar ratio (Ti/Zr) of titanium to zirconium in a range of 1.0 to 4.0. The mixture is sintered or fused and solidified.

Evaporating material for producing optical thin film

An optical recording medium including an opto-magnetic recording medium is provided with a protective layer of an oxide-nitride mixture on either one side or both sides of the optical recording layer. Because of the provision of the mixture layer, the optical recording layer not only has an improved durability such as a corrosion resistance but also can have improved writing and reading efficiencies through adjustment of the refractive index of the mixture layer.

Magneto-optical recording medium with 9:1-1:9 aluminum or silicon oxide

In an optical recording medium having an optical recording layer provided on a substrate, a carbide film of a substance selected from among tungsten, boron, molybdenum, hafnium, niobium, titanium, chromium, vanadium, tantalum and silicon is formed on one or each side of the recording layer.

Optical recording medium

A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate, a magnetic recording layer made of an amorphous magnetic film on the substrate, and an anticorrosive layer prepared by oxidation treatment of the surface of the amorphous magnetic film.

Magnetic recording medium

An ultraviolet reflecting mirror comprises a substrate, a high reflection factor film provided on the substrate and having a film thickness of at least 250 .ANG. and reflecting a light beam by the surface thereof, and a group of dielectric material layers comprising one or more sets of two layers of low refractive index film and high refractive index film provided on the high reflection factor film. The low refractive index film is provided on the high reflection factor film. The optical film thickness of the high refractive index film and the low refractive index film is approximately 1/4(2n-1).lambda., where n is a natural number and .lambda. is the design wavelength and 150nm.ltoreq..lambda..ltoreq.300nm. The film thickness of at least one of the high refractive index film and the low refractive index film is 3.lambda./4.

Ultraviolet reflecting mirror

An opto-magnetic recording medium comprises a transparent plastic substrate, a magnetic recording layer provided on the plastic substrate, and two or more thin film layers provided between the plastic substrate and the magnetic recording layer and decreasing the reflectance of the magnetic recording layer for a light entering from the substrate side. At least one of the thin film layers except the layer which is in contact with the plastic substrate is formed of Si.sub.3 N.sub.4.

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Yokohama, Japan

Mitsuharu Sawamura