Interferometer device and method for operating an interferometer device

    公开(公告)号:US11346721B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16924278

    申请日:2020-07-09

    Abstract: An interferometer device includes an interferometer unit with at least two mirrors disposed in parallel, wherein at least one of the mirrors is actuatable parallel to the other mirror and a first distance between the two mirrors is alterable. The interferometer device further includes at least one deflection mirror disposed downstream of the interferometer unit in a light transmission direction of light from the interferometer unit and a detector device, onto which the light is able to be aligned by the deflection mirror. The detector device includes at least two differently sensitive detection regions for transmitted wavelengths or wavelength ranges of the light, which detection regions are spatially separated from one another and able to be irradiated separately by the deflection mirror.

    APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LIGHT

    公开(公告)号:US20220011090A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US17294221

    申请日:2019-11-13

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for detecting light, the apparatus comprising: means for splitting an input beam of light, which is obtained from an optical coherence tomography arrangement into at least a first and a second beam of light; means for modulating the first beam of light to provide a first modulated beam of light and means for modulating the second beam of light to provide a second modulated beam of light; means for dispersing the first modulated beam of light to provide a first dispersed beam of light and means for dispersing the second modulated beam of light to provide a second dispersed beam of light; means for detecting the first dispersed beam of light and means for detecting the second dispersed beam of light, the means for detecting being configured to convert the detected beams of light into electrical output signals.

    Method and spectrometer apparatus for investigating an infrared absorption of a sample

    公开(公告)号:US11187652B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US17050650

    申请日:2018-04-27

    Abstract: A method of investigating a sample (1) having an absorption within an infrared spectral range of interest, comprises the steps of creating measuring light (2) with a light source device (10), wherein the measuring light (2) includes wavelengths covering the infrared spectral range, directing the measuring light (2) through the sample (1) to a detector device (20) with a plurality of detector units (21), each of which comprising an infrared sensitive sensor section (22) and an associated metamaterial resonator section (23) having a specific spectral resonance line (3), wherein the spectral resonance lines (3) of the resonator sections (23) have different frequencies within the infrared spectral range, wherein the measuring light (2) is transmitted through the sample (1) to the resonator sections (23) and subsequently sensed by the sensor sections (22), wherein an output of each of the sensor sections (22) depends on the absorption of the sample (1) at the frequency of the spectral resonance line (3) of the associated resonator section (23), and providing at least one absorption characteristic of the sample (1) on the basis of the output of the sensor sections (22), wherein the sample (1) is arranged for providing near field coupling of electronic states of the sample (1) and photonic resonator states of the resonator sections (23), wherein, for each of the resonator sections (23), a resonance line attenuation is created, which is determined by a complex refractive index of the sample (1) at the frequency of the spectral resonance line (3) of the resonator section (23), and the output of each of the sensor sections (22) is determined by the resonance line attenuation of the associated resonator section (23). Furthermore, a spectrometer apparatus (100) for investigating a sample (1) is described, which has an absorption within an infrared spectral range of interest.

    Optical device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11187579B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US16619630

    申请日:2018-07-06

    Abstract: In an optical device, an elastic support unit includes a pair of levers which face in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction, a pair of first torsion support portions which are connected between the levers and the base, a pair of second torsion support portions which are connected between the pair of levers and the movable unit, and a first link member that bridges the levers. The levers and the first link member define a light passage opening. Each of connection positions between the levers and the first torsion support portions is located on a side opposite to the movable unit with respect to the center of the light passage opening in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. A maximum width of the light passage opening in the second direction is defined by a gap between the levers in the second direction.

    COMMON-PATH CUBE CORNER INTERFEROMETER AND INTERFERENCE TECHNIQUE

    公开(公告)号:US20210333149A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-28

    申请号:US17240950

    申请日:2021-04-26

    Inventor: Ruyi WEI Lamei DI

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a common-path cube-corner retroreflector interferometer with a large optical path difference and high stability, and an interference technique thereof. The interferometer adopts an asymmetric common-path beam splitting structure using right-angled cube-corner retroreflectors, comprising a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective beam splitter, a plane mirror, a first right-angled cube-corner retroreflector, a second right-angled cube-corner retroreflector and an optical path difference element. The incident light is divided into a first transmitted beam and a second reflected beam, which are respectively reflected by the plane mirror and the right-angled cube-corner retroreflectors several times and then split again, two beams of which become interference outputs along directions perpendicular to an incident direction of the incident light, and the other two beams become interference outputs along directions parallel to the incident light. The present disclosure also provides an interference technique based on the interferometer described above.

    Labeling using an optical thickness measurement of a biosensor

    公开(公告)号:US11125753B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US15934538

    申请日:2018-03-23

    Abstract: A system detects an analyte suspected of being present in a sample. The reader reads an optical tag on a substrate, which is configured to immobilize the tag on a substrate surface. The optical tag is bound to a probe and includes a plurality of pores that create an effective index of refraction. The plurality of pores and a thickness of the tag are selected for a reflectance property. The substrate is configured to contact a sample suspected of comprising an analyte. The probe is capable of binding specifically to the analyte. The reader is configured to expose the tag to light to generate a sample spectral signature that is a function of the effective index of refraction, the thickness of the optical tag, and whether the analyte is coupled to the probe. The sample spectral signature is compared to a reference to detect the analyte in the sample.

    PATH FLUCTUATION MONITORING FOR FREQUENCY MODULATED INTERFEROMETER

    公开(公告)号:US20210231495A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-29

    申请号:US17056225

    申请日:2019-05-17

    Abstract: A method is presented for determining path length fluctuations in an interferometer using a reference laser with an arbitrary frequency with respect to the measured light. The method includes: injecting reference light along signal paths of the interferometer; measuring interference between the reference light at an output of the interferometer; determining an optical phase difference between the reference light in the two signal paths of the interferometer by measuring intensity modulation of the interference between the reference light and subtracting an intended frequency modulation from the measured intensity modulation; accumulating an unwrapped phase difference between the reference light in the two signal paths of the interferometer, where the unwrapped phase difference is defined in relation to a reference; and determining path length fluctuation of light in the interferometer using the unwrapped phase difference.

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