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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2010
Yong-hwa Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Alexander Gorelov, Moscow, RU;
Stanislav Shtykov, Moscow, RU;
Alexander Shirakov, Moscow, RU;
Yong-hwa Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Alexander Gorelov, Moscow, RU;
Stanislav Shtykov, Moscow, RU;
Alexander Shirakov, Moscow, RU;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A high speed optical shutter, a method of operating the high speed optical shutter, and an optical apparatus including the high speed optical shutter. The optical shutter includes a transparent electro-optical medium in an active solid state having a total internal reflection surface on which an angle of total internal reflection is changed by an external action. The transparent electro-optical medium may be a prism or a prism array whose angle of total internal reflection is changed by the external action. An incident light path changing unit may be further arranged in front of the transparent electro-optical medium. Also, a light path changing unit may be further arranged so as to allow light passing through the electro-optical medium to be perpendicularly incident on an incidence target object.