Optical: systems and elements – Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels – By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
Patent
1997-08-26
1999-12-28
Epps, Georgia
Optical: systems and elements
Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels
By partial reflection at beam splitting or combining surface
359631, 359633, G02B 2714
Patent
active
060089482
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a prism optical system which has an image-forming action and provides a clear yet substantially undistorted image at a wide field angle. In a prism optical system 5 comprising an aperture 1 and having an action on erecting an image formed by an objective, there are provided reflecting surfaces 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, and 43 for image inversion, each of which is constructed of a curved surface having a power, and is in an irrotationally symmetric plane shape having no rotationally symmetric axis both within and outside the surface, so that decentering aberration produced by reflection of light at the curved surfaces can be corrected.
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Epps Georgia
Letendre Suzanne
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
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