Abstract:
Multispectral images, including ultraviolet light and its interactions with ultraviolet light-interactive compounds, can be captured, processed, and represented to a user. Ultraviolet-light related information can be conveniently provided to a user to allow the user to have awareness of UV characteristics and the user's risk to UV exposure.
Abstract:
A high-frequency input voltage and a high-frequency input current to a series resonant circuit are detected by a voltage detection unit and a current detection unit, respectively, and plasma input power is detected by a plasma input power detection unit based on the detected high-frequency input voltage and high-frequency input current. By directly detecting the plasma input power in this manner, the plasma input power may be accurately controlled regardless of the state of a plasma-generating gas or an analysis sample. Also, use of a switching circuit including a semiconductor device allows an inexpensive configuration compared with a configuration where a vacuum tube or the like is used.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus includes an obtainment unit configured to obtain spectroscopic information generated from image information of a plant captured by an imaging unit; and a generation unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling a degree of water stress of the plant, based on the obtained spectroscopic information.
Abstract:
A method is described for estimating a spectral feature of a pulsed light beam produced by an optical source and directed toward a wafer of a lithography apparatus. The method includes receiving a set of N optical spectra of pulses of the light beam; saving the received N optical spectra to a saved set; transforming the optical spectra in the saved set to form a set of transformed optical spectra; averaging the transformed optical spectra to form an averaged spectrum; and estimating a spectral feature of the pulsed light beam based on the averaged spectrum.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for correcting an optical signal produced by a sample comprising the following steps: illuminating a surface of the sample by a first light beam, produced by a first light source, the said first light source being coupled to a first optical system, focusing the said first light beam in an object focal plane of the first optical system, the said object focal plane being situated, in the sample, at a measuring depth z from the surface of the sample; measuring, with a first photodetector, of a first optical signal backscattered by the sample in response to the first light beam, the first photodetector producing a first measured signal representative of the said first optical signal, a spatial filter being interposed between the first optical system and the first photodetector, the spatial filter comprising a window which transmits the said first optical signal towards the said first photodetector, the window being disposed in a conjugate focal plane of the object focal plane of the first optical system; wherein the method also comprises the following steps: determining an optical scattering property of the sample; applying a correction function to the first measured signal so as to generate a first corrected signal, the said correction function taking into account the said optical scattering property.
Abstract:
A spectrometer is provided for acquiring a Raman spectrum from a sample. The spectrometer includes a first laser, a second laser, a detector and a processing device. The first laser is adapted to produce a first laser beam for generating first Raman spectra from the sample. The second laser is adapted to produce a second laser beam for generating second Raman spectra from the sample. The detector is adapted to collect the first Raman spectra and the second Raman spectra. The processing device is adapted to process the collected first and second Raman spectra to provide the Raman spectrum.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for controlling the optical path length between a feedback enabled laser and a cavity, and hence the optical feedback phase. A phasor element, positioned along an optical path between the laser and the cavity coupling mirror, includes a gas medium within a volume defined by the phasor element. The phasor element is configured to adjust or control an optical path length of the laser light between the laser and the cavity coupling mirror by adjusting or controlling a density of the gas medium within the phasor volume.
Abstract:
An automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is described. The automated adaptive optics and laser projection system includes an adaptive optics system and a compact laser projection system with related laser guidance programming used to correct atmospheric distortion induced on light received by a telescope. Control of the automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is designed in a modular manner in order to facilitate replication of the system to be used with a variety of different telescopes. Related methods are also described.
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A method and apparatus are provided that interrogate, receive, and analyze full emission spectra for at least one fluorescence excitation wavelength and for at least one reflectance measurement to determine tissue characteristics and correlate same to photographic images. Further, the system and method accomplish this measurement rapidly by increasing the light throughput by integrating optics into a hand held unit and avoiding the need for a coherent fiber optic bundle being used. The method includes illuminating a first portion of a target tissue with optical energy, forming a first image of the target tissue, illuminating a second portion of the target tissue with optical energy, performing spectroscopic measurements on optical energy reflected and/or emitted by the target tissue upon illumination of the second portion of the target tissue with optical energy, and determining tissue characteristics of the target tissue based on the results of the spectroscopic measurements.
Abstract:
A displacement sensor includes a light source unit configured to apply light with different plural wavelengths in a direction oblique to a measurement region of a planar measured object, a spectroscope configured to measure spectral distribution of light reflected by the measurement region, a feature amount extracting module configured to extract a feature amount of the spectral distribution, and a displacement calculating module configured to calculate displacement of the measurement region based on the extracted feature amount and a relation between displacement and a feature amount acquired previously.