Optical filter and electronic apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTomoaki Nakamura
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Abstract
An optical filter includes a pair of reflection films facing each other via a gap, and a gap change portion that changes a distance between the pair of reflection films, wherein the reflection film is formed by a plurality of layered structures, the plurality of layered structures are respectively formed by alternate stacking of high-refractive layers and low-refractive layers having smaller refractive indices than the high-refractive layers and, in the respective layered structures, optical film thicknesses of the high-refractive layers and optical film thicknesses of the low-refractive layers are film thicknesses based on predetermined design center wavelengths set with respect to each of the layered structures, and the design center wavelengths are different with respect to each of the layered structures.
Claims6
An optical filter comprising:
- a pair of reflection films facing each other via a gap;
- and
- an actuator that changes a distance between the pair of reflection films,
- wherein each of the reflection films are formed of a plurality of layered structures,
- the plurality of layered structures of each reflective film are respectively formed by sandwiching a low-refractive layer with a pair of high-refractive layers, wherein the low-refractive layer has a smaller refractive index than the pair of high-refractive layers,
- in each of the respective layered structures of each reflective film, optical film thicknesses of the high-refractive layers and optical film thicknesses of the low-refractive layers are film thicknesses are based on a predetermined design center wavelength that is set with respect to that particular layered structure,
- the design center wavelengths in each of the layered structures of a respective reflective film are different,
- the plurality of layered structures are coupled by light-transmissive coupling layers, and
- optical film thicknesses of the coupling layers are film thicknesses based on averages of the design center wavelengths of pairs of the layered structures with the coupling layers in between.
An optical filter comprising:
- a pair of reflection films facing each other via a gap;
- and
- an actuator that changes a distance between the pair of reflection films, wherein
- each of the reflection films are formed by a multilayer film in which a low-refractive layer is sandwiched by a pair of high-refractive layers, and
- in each of the multilayer films of each reflective film, optical film thicknesses of the high-refractive layers and optical film thicknesses of the low-refractive layers are film thicknesses are based on a design center wavelength that is set with respect to that particular multilayer film, and
- the design center wavelength in each of the multilayer films of a respective reflective film are different, and the design center wavelengths are smaller toward the gap, and
- a difference between the design center wavelengths of the adjacent layers takes a constant value.
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