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Title:
POLARIZATION DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009175038
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To prevent a degradation of a resolution and a dynamic range on a polarization characteristic, that may occur in the case where a part of scattered light generated in a divisional optical path at the front of a final divisional optical path traces an identical optical path of diffraction light in the final divisional optical path in a multi-path type polarization device.

The divisional optical paths 10, 20 that output incident light beams to a diffraction grating 1 by making the light beams to be parallel light beams and output the returned light beams from the diffraction grating 1 through a slit provided therein, comprise respective collimators 2, 4 for making the incident light beams to be parallel light beams. The collimators 2, 4 of the respective divisional optical paths 10, 20 are provided in such a manner that radiation regions R1, R2 on the diffraction grating 1 of light beams L1, L3 output from the respective collimators 2, 4 of the corresponding divisional optical paths 10, 20 are deviated with each other in at least an extensional direction of a dark line.


Inventors:
KOJIMA MANABU
KANEKO TSUTOMU
YAMAMOTO TOMOKAZU
Application Number:
JP2008015031A
Publication Date:
August 06, 2009
Filing Date:
January 25, 2008
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Assignee:
YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORP
International Classes:
G01J3/18
Domestic Patent References:
JP2001183233A2001-07-06
JPH05149787A1993-06-15
JP2001183233A2001-07-06
JPH05149787A1993-06-15
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatake Shiga
Tadashi Takahashi
Takashi Watanabe
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Kazuya Nishi
Yasuhiko Murayama