Abstract:
Embodiments include n apparatus including a color sensor including a transmitter portion and a receiver portion, the transmitter portion including a light source operable to generate and transmit a light having a particular range of wavelengths, the receiver portion including a first detector operable to receive a first portion of the light emitted from the transmitter portion and to measure a luminance of the received first portion of the emitted light, and a second detector including a polarization filter, the second detector operable to receive a second portion of the light emitted from the transmitter after the second portion has passed through the polarization filter, and operable to measure a pure color of the received second portion of transmitted light.
Abstract:
A photo-thermal interferometric spectroscopy system is disclosed that provides information about a chemical at a remote location. A first light source assembly is included that emits a first beam. The first beam has one or more wavelengths that interact with the chemical and change a refractive index of the chemical. A second laser produces a second beam. The second beam interacts with the chemical resulting in a third beam with a phase change that corresponds with the change of the refractive index of the chemical. A detector system is positioned remote from the chemical to receive at least a portion of the third beam. An adaptive optics system at least partially compensates the light beam degradation caused by atmospheric turbulence. A focusing system is used to bring together the light passed through the chemical; the focusing system includes a multimode fiber for the light collection, The detector system provides information on a phase change in the third beam relative to the second beam that is indicative of at least one of, absorption spectrum and concentration of the chemical.
Abstract:
Application of Xenon arc-lamps to provide UV/deep UV wavelengths in spectrophotometer, reflectometer, ellipsometer, polarimeter or the like systems.
Abstract:
An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.
Abstract:
A compact conical diffraction Littrow spectrometer is disclosed. The distortion of the conically diffracted spectral component beams is compensated and as a result, the diffracted spectral beams can still be focused into a substantially straight line to shine onto a detector array. A spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) system incorporating a Littrow spectrometer or a spectrometer having one or more shared focusing element(s) and an SD-OCT system incorporating a spectrometer that is substantially polarization independent are also disclosed.
Abstract:
An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.
Abstract:
An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.
Abstract:
A Fabry-Perot cavity filter includes a first mirror and a second mirror. A gap between the first and the second mirror monotonically varies as a function of width of the filter. This filter may be used with photodetector and a channel selection filter in an optical device, such as a spectrum analyzer. The channel selection filter may be a metal nanooptic filter array which includes plurality of subwavelength apertures in a metal film or between metal islands.
Abstract:
A polarizing monochromator comprising a uniaxial birefringent crystal prism, the prism has the geometry of a triangular block having a triangular base, a face including a side of the hypotenuse is an input-output face, where light enters and exits, and a face including the longer side of the right angle is a reflection face, the optic axis of the prism is perpendicular to the base of the prism, the angle of the input-output face of the prism with respect to light coming from a collimator optical system is determined in such a manner that ordinary light and extraordinary light exit from the input-output face of the prism in opposite directions with respect to an optical axis connecting the collimator optical system and the prism, and a light-collecting optical system is disposed to collect either extraordinary light or ordinary light exiting from the input-output face of the prism.
Abstract:
An optical arrangement and method of filtering include a beam splitter that accepts an incident beam and transmits light from the incident beam of a first polarization and reflects light from the incident beam of a second polarization. The transmitted light is a first beam and the reflected light is a second beam. A first spectral filter, receives the first beam, reflects a first spectral band of the first beam, and transmits the remainder of the first beam. A second spectral filter receives the remainder of the first beam and reflects a second spectral band of the first beam. The first and second spectral filters can also receive the second beam and reflect similar first and second spectral bands. The spectral bands are then returned to the beam splitter, where they may be directed toward a dispersal element or an array of photodetectors.