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US 8,958,155 B2Granted
Light-shielding film for optical element and optical element having light-shielding film
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorReiko Kubota
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Abstract
A light-shielding film for optical element includes at least a resin and a colorant. The light-shielding film for optical element has an average extinction coefficient of 0.03 or more and 0.15 or less as an average of extinction coefficients of the whole light-shielding film for light having wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nm.
Claims7
An optical element comprising a lens or a prism, having a light-shielding film on an outer portion,
- wherein the light-shielding film for the optical element has an average thickness of 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less,
- wherein the light-shielding film comprise a resin, a colorant and (i) non-black particles having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or less and a refractive index (nd) of 2.2 or more or (ii) inorganic black particles having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or less and a refractive index (nd) of 2.2 or more and 3.5 or less, and
- wherein the average of extinction coefficient of the whole light-shielding film for light having wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nm is 0.03 or more and 0.15 or less.
An optical element comprising a lens or a prism, having a light-shielding film on an outer portion,
- wherein the light-shielding film for the optical element has an average thickness of 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less,
- wherein the light-shielding film comprise a resin, a colorant and non-black particles having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or less and a refractive index (nd) of 2.2 or more,
- wherein the average of extinction coefficient of the whole light-shielding film for light having wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nm is 0.03 or more and 0.15 or less, and
- wherein an inner-surface reflectance of inner-surface-reflected light, which is incident light having entered from the side of the optical element and having been reflected at an interface between the optical element and the light-shielding film and at an interface between the light-shielding film and air, at an incident angle of 36.73° is 0.05% or less, the inner-surface reflectance at an incident angle of 45° is 0.07% or less, and the inner-surface reflectance at an incident angle of 68.13° is 1% or less.
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