Abstract:
The method and system utilized the measurement of the “absolute” velocities or equivalent parameters of the electromagnetic devices and objects, which are defined as the velocities relative to the real origin of the electromagnetic wave, to accurately picture their impacts on the propagation and measurement of the electromagnetic wave and compensate for these impacts correspondingly. The comprehensive information of the “absolute” velocities, including both the measured values and the calculated right timings, is utilized to calibrate and control the electromagnetic device and calculate the results to improve performance and accuracy. The method and system include the absolute velocity measurement, the calibration and control of the device, and the computation of the right timings and results.
Abstract:
Some embodiments include a method of operating a tunable light module. The method can include driving a lamp in the tunable light module, having lamps of at least two colors, to produce a colored light according to the color mixing plan that corresponds to a correlated color temperature (CCT); measuring a light characteristic of the lamp using a light sensor; detecting a degradation level by comparing the measured light characteristic against an expected light characteristic; and adjusting a current level for driving the lamp at the CCT by referencing the color mixing plan and an alternative coefficient corresponding to the degradation level.
Abstract:
Methods of selecting, from a set of like optical fibers, a subset of optical fibers that can meet both short-wavelength and target-wavelength bandwidth requirements are disclosed. The method includes obtaining short-wavelength bandwidth data from DMD measurements, and determining a peak wavelength for each optical fiber. A target-wavelength bandwidth is then calculated using the determined peak wavelengths. The calculated target bandwidth is then compared to the short-wavelength and target-wavelength bandwidth requirements to identify which of the optical fibers satisfy these requirements.
Abstract:
Some embodiments include a method of operating a tunable light module. The method can include driving a lamp in the tunable light module, having lamps of at least two colors, to produce a colored light according to the color mixing plan that corresponds to a correlated color temperature (CCT); measuring a light characteristic of the lamp using a light sensor; detecting a degradation level by comparing the measured light characteristic against an expected light characteristic; and adjusting a current level for driving the lamp at the CCT by referencing the color mixing plan and an alternative coefficient corresponding to the degradation level.
Abstract:
A probe including a multiple lens array is disclosed to measure velocity distribution of a moving surface along many lines of sight. Laser light, directed to the moving surface is reflected back from the surface and is Doppler shifted, collected into the array, and then directed to detection equipment through optic fibers. The received light is mixed with reference laser light and using photonic Doppler velocimetry, a continuous time record of the surface movement is obtained. An array of single-mode optical fibers provides an optic signal to the multiple lens array. Numerous fibers in a fiber array project numerous rays to establish many measurement points at numerous different locations. One or more lens groups may be replaced with imaging lenses so a stereo image of the moving surface can be recorded. Imaging a portion of the surface during initial travel can determine whether the surface is breaking up.
Abstract:
A device, system and method for measuring the sidereal or one-way “superluminal” photon group velocity is presented, in which the measurement of said “superluminal” photon group velocity may be used as a research and educational tool to explore astronomical and physical quantities as well as the dilaton fundamental particle.
Abstract:
A delay time measurement apparatus for an optical element includes a pulse light source, wavelength setting unit, optical power divider, optical delay unit, controller, and detector. The pulse light source can vary the wavelength of light to be output, and outputs an optical pulse having a predetermined repetition period. The wavelength setting unit sets the wavelength of light to be output from the pulse light source. The optical power divider divides the optical pulse output from the pulse light source into a first optical pulse and a second optical pulse to be input to an optical element as the object to be measured. The optical delay unit can vary the spatial optical path length along which the first optical pulse divided by the optical power divider travels. The controller changes the spatial optical path length of the optical delay unit. The detector receives a measurement optical pulse output from the optical element as the object to be measured, and a reference optical pulse output from the optical delay unit, and detects the delay time of light that has passed through the optical element as the object to be measured from a change in spatial optical path length required for superposing the measurement and reference optical pulses on each other.
Abstract:
A light dispersion measuring apparatus, provided with a light source for generating reference light pulses of short duration and of a constant frequency and also variable-frequency light pulses in synchronization with the reference light pulses but at a frequency different therefrom. A variable optical delay line delays the reference light pulses. An optical transmission medium, to be detected and to which the variable-frequency light pulses are applied is provided. An optical non-linear effect element receiver the output light pulses from the variable optical delay line and the optical transmission medium and is disposed so that when the two light pulses coincide emitted from the light source with each other, the sum component of the frequencies of the two types of light pulses produces a maximum output. A photo detector detects the sum component. Light dispersion in the optical transmission medium being measured from the delay of the variable optical delay line is adjusted so that the sum components yields a maximum output with respect to the frequency of the variable-frequency light pulses. The frequency of the reference light pulses can be made to be equal to the variable-frequency of the variable-frequency light pulses.