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Imaging device

  • US 20040218085A1
  • Filed: 02/23/2004
  • Published: 11/04/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image pickup device, comprising:

  • a fiber optical plate constituted by bundling a plurality of optical fibers including a core and a cladding covering an outer periphery of the core, and having a light incident surface and a light-emitting surface inclined with respect to the optical axis of the plurality of optical fibers;

    a plurality of columnar crystals having light permeability formed on the light-emitting surface of the fiber optical plate; and

    a solid-state image pickup device having photoelectric converters arrayed and formed in two-dimensional fashion on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and optically coupled to said plurality of columnar crystals.

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