US Patent 7403334 Optical member and process of producing the same

The present invention provides an optical member having excellent anti-reflection properties, capable of being produced inexpensively as compared with conventional optical members having anti-reflection properties and of being mass-produced with quality kept constant. An optical member 1 has a plane of incidence 3 and a plane of emergence 5. The plane of emergence 5 has, as an optical element, prisms 2 by which the optical path of incident light (see symbol X) is changed. The plane of incidence 3 has a plurality of minute concavities 4 (see FIG. 2) by which reflection of incident light is prevented.