Abstract:
An optical measurement apparatus 10 primarily includes: a photon detection unit 12 for detecting incident photons, a time signal output unit 14 for outputting a time signal, and a storage unit 16 for storing the time signal outputted from the time signal output unit 14 when the photon detection unit 12 detects photons. The photon detection unit 12 includes a HPD 24 having a photocathode 24a and an APD 24b, a TZ amplifier 26, a peak holding circuit 28, and an A/D converter 30. The time signal output unit 14 includes a timer 32 and a counter 34. The storage unit 16 includes a comparator 36 and a memory 38. When photons impinge on the HPD 24, a trigger signal is outputted from the comparator 36, causing the photon-number outputted from the A/D converter 30 and the time data outputted from the counter 34 to be stored in the memory 38.
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:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely measure the wavelength dispersion and wavelength variance of a short body to be measured. SOLUTION: An instrument is provided with a 1st pulse light source 22 with variable wavelength which is driven with a reference signal, an optical demultiplexer 24 which receives a 1st light pulse emitted by the 1st pulse light source and demultiplexes it into a reference light pulse and a light pulse to be made incident on the body to be measured, an optical multiplexer 26 which multiplexes the reference light pulse and the projection light pulse passed through the body to be measured and outputs the multiplexed light, and a 2nd pulse light source 23 which generates a 2nd light pulse delayed by a specific time in every cycle of the 1st light pulse. Further, a sampling means 27 which receives the multiplexed light and 2nd light pulse to obtain a signal of a train of light pulses proportional to the intensity of the multiplexed light obtained in synchronism with the 2nd light pulse and a signal processing means 37 which obtains an envelope consisting of peak parts of respective light pulses constituting the train of the light pulses from the signal of the train of light pulses from the sampling means 27 are provided to constitute the wavelength dispersion measuring instrument.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To provide a measuring apparatus for verifying whether such a theory that a light propagating speed has invariance, is correct or not. CONSTITUTION:A synchrotron radiation light radiated from a charged particle accelerated at a high speed by utilizing synchrotron being a particle accelerator 2 is directly incident on a mirror 8 for comparing the incident angle with a reflecting angle without passing even once through and without reflecting via a lens, a glass, a mirror, and a vacuum shut-off shielding material in vacuum. The reflected light of the mirror 8 is projected on a measuring surface 21, and a projection point on the surface 12 of the reflected light from the inclined angle to the incident light of the mirror 8 when it is assumed that the propagating speed of the synchrotron radiation light has invariance is predicted. Whether the projection point on the surface 12 of the actual reflected light is deviated from the predicted point or not is observed, thereby verifying the invariance of the light propagating speed.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a wavelength-dispersion coefficient in a desired frequency range by a single light source, by processing the phase characteristics in the base-band characteristics of a light signal. CONSTITUTION:Light from a light source (laser diode 2) having a light emitting spectrum A(alpha) undergoes amplitude modulation at a frequency (f), and the obtained signal light is transmitted to a fiber 5 to be measured. At both ends of the fiber 5, light receivers 6 and 8 are provided. The base band characteristics of the received light signals are measured. The expression is optimally approximated to the phase characteristics in the base band characteristics by using various wavelength-dispersion coefficients (m). In the expression, omega is the modulation angle frequency of the light signal, lambda is the wavelength of the light signal and L is the length of the optical fiber. Then, the wavelength-dispersion coefficient in the vicinity of the effective central wavelength lambda0 of the light emitting spectrum A(lambda) of the fiber 5 is obtained by the wavelength-dispersion coefficient (m) in the optimally approximated expression. Thus the wavelength-dispersion coefficient in the desired frequency range can be obtained by a single light source.