OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE

• US 20100289035A1
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Streppel, Ulrich, Muschaweck, Julius
• Application Number:
  US12/808,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20100289035A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/84
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 3/005 arranged along a single direction only, e.g. lenticular sheets G02B3/0043 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/285 including two or more different focus detection devices, e.g. both an active and a passive focus detecting device
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/32 using active means, e.g. light emitter including both an active and a passive focus detecting device G02B7/285; using ultrasound G02B7/40

Abstract

An optoelectronic device includes an optical element and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip that generates electromagnetic radiation, wherein the optical element is of one-piece construction, includes two mutually facing radiation passage faces, comprises a lens arrangement with a plurality of mutually delimited lens regions, wherein the lens arrangement is formed in one of the radiation passage faces and the other radiation passage face is of smooth construction, and wherein the lens regions are arranged such that the radiation passing through the optical element is formed into different, cylindrical and/or mutually separate wavefronts.

Claims

1. An optoelectronic device having an optical element and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip that generates electromagnetic radiation, wherein the optical element

is of one-piece construction,

includes two mutually facing radiation passage faces,

comprises a lens arrangement with a plurality of mutually delimited lens regions,

wherein the lens arrangement is formed in one of the radiation passage faces and the other radiation passage face is of smooth construction, and

wherein the lens regions are arranged such that the radiation passing through the optical element is formed into different, cylindrical and/or mutually separate wavefronts.

2. The device according to claim 1, in which the lens regions are arranged such that, after passage of the radiation through the optical element, the wavefronts are configured such that they have different propagation directions and/or different angles of rotation relative to a cylinder axis.

3. The device according to claim 1, in which a distance between the semiconductor chip and the radiation passage face facing the semiconductor chip amounts to at least three times an average diameter of the semiconductor chip.

4. The device according to claim 1, in which the optical element takes the form of a supplementary element in front of the semiconductor chip.

5. The device according to claim 1, in which one radiation passage face is of planar construction.

6. The device according to claim 1, in which the lens regions have different shapes and different sizes.

7. The device according to claim 1, in which an arrangement grid of the lens regions corresponds to a grid of a pattern to be formed with the radiation.

8. The device according to any one of the preceding claim 1, in which the lens regions in each case have precisely one refractive face and the refractive faces of two lens regions have different curvature profiles and different sizes.

9. The device according to claim 1, which comprises one semiconductor chip and one optical element.

10. The device according to claim 1, which does not have a negative mask or a positive mask for a pattern to be formed.

11. The device according to claim 1, in which the semiconductor chip, in plan view onto the chip surface facing the optical element, has an area of more than 150 μ

m×

150 μ

m and less than 400 μ

m×

400 μ

m.

12. The device according to claim 1, in which radiant power emitted by each individual lens region deviates from a mean by at most 25%.

13. The device according to claim 1, in which an average diameter of the lens regions amounts to more than 1.5 times and less than three times an average diameter of a chip surface facing the optical element.

14. The device according to claim 1, which is configured to generate a reference pattern for an autofocusing unit of an image recording device.

15. An image recording device having an optical device according to claim 1 and a sensor which is set up for autofocusing.