Abstract:
A wavelength detector in which reference light (31) generated in a reference light source (30) and light (11) to be detected are directed to an etalon (62), and the light that has transmitted through the etalon is detected by light detecting means (64). The front focal surface (50) of a collimator lens (61) is irradiated with the reference light and the light to be detected. These lights are converted into parallel rays through the collimator lens and fall on the etalon. The reference light and the light to be detected that have passed through the etalon are focused by focusing lens means (63) on the detecting surface of light detecting means to form thereon interference fringes that correspond to the reference light and the light to be detected. Based on the interference fringes, relative wavelength of the light to be detected to the reference light, i.e., the absolute wavelength of the light to be detected, is measured.
Abstract:
A prismatic acousto-optic interferometer in which a light input is split into two parallel beams (2, 3) and the beams are independently modulated and then recombined, characterised by a pair of Kosters prisms (1, 8) placed back-to-back but spaced apart on a common axis to divide a light beam passed into a first Kosters prism into a pair of parallel light beams extending between the prisms, at least one of the parallel light beams (2, 3) being reflected out by a light splitter (6, 7), the light beams being combined in the second Kosters prism (8).
Abstract:
A phase detection deflectometer-type optical device. Between the grating and the CCD camera, a primary lens (19) with a large entrance pupil provides an intermediate image on a ground glass (20), and the intermediate image passes through a secondary optical member (21) which uses it to form a final image on the sensor (6) of the CCD camera.
Abstract:
The object of the invention is a shearing measuring head with a very compact construction owing to the use of concave mirrors in a Michelson interferometer arrangement, which permits phase shifts and may if desired be operated with an upstream object lens.
Abstract:
A wavelength-independent-interferometer comprises means to receive light (10) from a field of view, means (BS1) to separate the light into two beams (11, 12), means (BS2) to combine the two beams, and dispersive means (30) interposed in the path (12) of one of the two beams to produce a wavelength-dependent shear. The dispersive means may be a transmission diffraction grating or a reflection grating. In the arrangement shown the optical elements are combined in a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer. When the conventional Mach-Zehnder interferometer is illuminated with coherent light the separation of interference fringes produced in the interference plane is inversely proportional to the wavelength. By introducing a dispersive element in the invention the detector is sensitised to a pre-determined fringe separation. A moveable reticle is placed in front of a detector to sensitise the detector to the fringe pattern.
Abstract:
@ An optical processing system based on noncoherent light processing employs both geometrical and diffraction optical systems. One portion of the optical system (25, 26) preforms a subtraction operation of the image from itself where one of the subtracted images is relatively defocused and one is delayed in time from the other. The subtracted image is edge- enhanced (32) and then applied to a spatial filter employing an interferometer (56) in which spatial filters (61, 62) are contained in the interferometer iris plates (59, 60). Additional spatial filtering (72) is performed on the interference image and the processed image is displayed in an appropriate display (78, 81) which can selectively view the processed image, the unprocessed image, or combinations of the two. Light storage elements are employed for storing the processed images in appropriate buffers (23, 24, 64) over a given length of time. The buffers are read out by a flashlamp. Suitable shutters (15, 16, 80, 82) are closed during the readout process.
Abstract:
An optical system for analyzing and correcting wave fronts comprising a deformable mirror for correcting wave fronts and a system for analyzing and detecting phase distorsion, an interferometer with lateral duplication constituting the analyses system, receiving the wave front for analysis and duplicating it and deducing from two neighbouring wave fronts obtained signals to control deformation of the said deformable mirror, wherein this lateral duplication interferometer is a polorization interferometer consisting of a Wollaston double-refractive biprism with an angle 0, the two prisms being assembled head to tail and cut parallel to the crystallographic axis such that the respective axes are parallel and perpendicular to the edges of the prisms a polarizer and an anlayser on either side of the said biprism and an oscillating optical member on the path of the said biprism.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a system and a method in which a diffraction grating is used which is circularly ruled to diffract a beam with a wavefront comparable with the expected wavefront reflected from an optic under test so that when beams having well defined wavefronts are directed to the grating (reference) and to the test optic, their return beams may be compared by conventional inter-ferometer techniques. No attempt is made to modify the return beam from the test optic into conventional well known wavefronts such as spherical or parallel for testing purposes.
Abstract:
This invention relates to unequal path interferometers which are adapted, among other possible uses, for use in detecting coherent radiation as from a laser in a packet of radiation including incoherent background radiation, which includes an unequal optical path length interferometer of the type in which portions of the radiation impinging on the interferometric component are caused to be recombined after travelling two different optical paths; the optical paths differing in length by an amount substantially greater than the coherence length of the non-coherent radiation but substantially less than the coherence length of the coherent radiation; the unequal optical path length interferometric component including a crystalline cell having anisotropic properties; circuitry for applying an ultrasonic sound wave to the crystalline cell to vary the effective index of refraction of the crystalline cell in a preselected systematic manner; a detector for detecting the intensity of the recombined portions and producing a signal representative thereof, said signal having a variable component caused by the varying constructive and destructive interference of the recombined coherent radiation components, while the recombined non-coherent radiation components produce only a substantially steady background signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to industrial physics, in particular to the class of devices used for investigating the internal structure of objects, and can be used in medicine for diagnosis of the state of individual organs and systems in a human subject, in particular for optical coherence tomography, and in industrial diagnostics, e.g. for monitoring industrial processes. The aim of the invention is to create an optical fibre interferometer which, when used as part of an optical coherence tomography system, will permit investigation of mediums with low characteristic times for changes in characteristics or position relative to the optical probe, for example in in vivo investigation of tissues. Another aim of the present invention is to produce an optical fibre piezo-electric transducer suitable for use in an optical fibre interferometer to ensure that the mediums in question are scanned to the requisite depth. In the optical fibre interferometer as developed, the piezo-electric transducer in the form of an optical fibre controlled delay line serves as the optical fibre part of the interferometer leg which allows the virtual inertia-free adjustment of the length of the interferometer leg and therefore adjustment of the difference in optical lengths of the legs by a factor of at least several tens of times the working wavelengths of the interferometer. The optical fibre piezo-electric transducer as designed takes the form of an optical fibre piezo-electric controlled delay line and comprises a piezo-ceramic wafer on the opposing surfaces of which are provided electrodes and an optical fibre. It is expedient to make the wafer in the form of a disc and to lay the fibre in a spiral, which ensures that the length of the optical fibre can be altered within broad limits without inertia and with a transducer of small dimensions.