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Title:
LIGHTING OPTICAL SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3891628
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting optical system capable of effectively removing infrared rays even without an infrared cut filter.
SOLUTION: This optical system is constituted so that it is provided with a light source 11 emitting white light containing at least visible and infrared region components and a relief type diffractive optical element 12 diffracting luminous flux of the white light, and the relief type diffractive optical element 12 is provided with a grating with a rectangular sectional shape and an equal interval, and 0-order light 13 among diffracted light emitted from the relief type diffractive optical element 12 is usable as lighting light.


Inventors:
Fumi Imamura
Kazushi Ohashi
Application Number:
JP2124797A
Publication Date:
March 14, 2007
Filing Date:
February 04, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Olympus Endo Technology America Inc.
International Classes:
G02B19/00; G02B23/26; A61B1/06; F21V5/02; F21V9/04; F21V13/04; G02B5/18; G02B5/20; G02B27/00; G02B27/10; G02B27/44; (IPC1-7): G02B19/00; A61B1/06; F21V5/02; G02B5/18; G02B23/26; G02B27/00; G02B27/44
Domestic Patent References:
JP6186504A
JP2188711A
JP8201439A
JP6347627A
JP8304741A
JP3051411U
JP6249719A
JP8160210A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kosaku Sugimura
Norita Tomita
Umemoto Masao