Abstract:
A modified Michelson type of interferometer having a pair of substantially identical refractive prisms, each having a cross sectional shape of 1/2 of a hexagon, the division being along a line bisecting opposite sides of the hexagon, where each of the prisms has a side for beam input or output, a side that is coated to provide a mirror for beam reflection and a beamsplitter coating applied to one of the two surfaces along the line of division. Additionally, a collimating and/or focusing lens may be integral with the prism having the input or output side, such that linear, constant speed, relative scanning of the prisms in the direction of the line of division of the prisms enables the elimination of the mounting of all components, made a part of or attached to the prisms, to an optical bench.
Abstract:
A polarization interferometer includes a light source to be measured, a Wollaston prism, a pair of polarizers arranged in such a manner that the Wollaston prism is interposed between the polarizers and the plane of polarization of each polarizer is inclined at 45.degree. to each of two crystallographic axes of the Wollaston prism, a photodetector for detecting an interference fringe which is spatially formed by two light beams separated by the Wollaston prism, changeover means for causing one of the polarizers to changeover from one of polarizing and non-polarizing states to the other state, memory means for storing a first output signal which is delivered from the photodetector in a state that one polarizer is kept at the non-polarizing state, and means for dividing a second output signal which is delivered from the photodetector in a state that one polarizer is kept at the polarizing state, by the first output signal stored in the memory means.
Abstract:
An interferometer/spectroradiometer that uses a beamsplitter means for dividing an input beam into two separate beams and presents the resultant beams to a rotary refractive window from symmetrically oriented optical elements such that the optical path differences through the refractive window as it rotates are additive and non-linearities are subtracted. The beams are returned through the refractive window to the beamsplitter for dividing the input beam, where fringes are generated for application to appropriate detectors. The detector output is applied to Fourier transform computer equipment for digitizing and processing for presentation on a spectrum display device.
Abstract:
Fourier spectroscopy is used in the measurement of circular dichroism, the method involving the use of an interference polarization modulator which is characterized by production of negligible amplitude modulation in the absence of dichroism in the optical train that follows the modulator and in the detector. Either linear or circular dichroism in that region of the instrument will convert the polarization modulation into amplitude modulation. The polarization modulation is characterized by a different frequency for each wavelength of the radiation, thus the signals caused by the interaction of the radiation with dichroic sample may all be recorded simultaneously and may subsequently be ''''unscrambled'''' to derive the inverse Fourier transform of the ensemble of frequencies constituting the complete signal, and thus obtaining a transmission spectrum corresponding to the dichroism. The transmission spectrum in turn, in the case of the circular dichroism, may be converted into dichroism by dividing by the ordinary transmission spectrum (corresponding to ordinary absorption) which may be derived by ordinary Fourier spectroscopy.
Abstract:
An interferometer employing a 4f optical imaging system, through which both reference and sample beams are propagated, between diffraction gratings configured as input and output beam-splitting / beam-combining components. A Fourier-transform spectrometer utilizing the same and a microscope as an input optical sub-system. The interferometer includes a variable-phase-delay optical element in a Fourier plane of the imaging spectrometer defined between lens elements of the 4f optical system. In a special case, an additional 4f optical imaging system is used at the output of the interferometer, through which interferograms are registered at the detector. Light output collected by the detector has the same optical path difference between reference and sample beams at any point across field-of-view. A method for performing imaging spectrometry and forming images of an object under the microscope.
Abstract:
A Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) imager is presented. An OCT imager according to the present invention can have an auto-alignment process. The auto-alignment process automatically adjusts at least one optical component of a spectrometer of the imager so that the spectrometer is aligned during an imaging session. In addition to the auto-alignment process, OCT spectra are normalized for background spectra and for noise characteristics in order to provide a more accurate and clear OCT image.
Abstract:
A polarization interferometer comprises a light source (1), a collimator (2), a first polarization element (3), a system of double-refracting elements (4, 5, 6) and a second polarizing element (7) which polarizes the light emerging from the double-refracting element (4, 5, 6) and directs it to a photon detector (8). The double-refractive element (4, 5, 6) consists of two optical wedges (5, 6) which together constitute a right parallepiped and which are arranged so as to slide relative to each other along opposed side surfaces, and a double-refracting plate (4) with parallel faces which acts as a compensator. The optical axis of the compensator (4) makes a finite angle with those of the two wedges (5, 6) in the plane perpendicular to the light beam, the optical axes of both wedges (5, 6) being coincident. The optical axes of the two polarizers (3, 7) are mutually perpendicular or parallel and are not aligned parallel to the axes of the two wedges (5, 6) of the double-refractive element (4, 5, 6).
Abstract:
광 모듈은 실리콘 영역(11)을 에칭함으로써 형성된 광투과성 광학 부품(12)을 가지는 제1 판상 부재(10)와, 광투과성 광학 부품(12)을 투과한 광을 반사시키기 위한 광반사성 광학 부품(거울(21 ~ 24))을 가지는 제2 판상 부재(20)를 구비한다. 제1 및 제2 판상 부재(10, 20)는 서로 접합되어 있고, 광투과성 광학 부품(12)을 투과하는 광의 광로가, 제1 판상 부재(10)의 부품 형성면 및 제2 판상 부재(20)의 주면을 따라서 있다. 이것에 의해, 광반사성 광학 부품과 광투과성 광학 부품을 근접하게 배치할 수 있고, 기판의 특성에 관한 요구가 광학 부품에 따라서 상반되는 경우에도 그러한 요구를 충족하는 것이 가능한 광 모듈 및 그 제조 방법이 실현된다.