Abstract:
An optical modulator includes: a vibrator configured to perform flexural vibration along a first direction; and a diffraction grating disposed in the vibrator and having a plurality of grooves arranged in parallel along the first direction. A frequency of laser light incident on the diffraction grating is shifted. In addition, it is preferable that the vibrator includes a base portion, a first vibration arm, and a second vibration arm disposed side by side along the first direction and coupled to the base portion, the first vibration arm and the second vibration arm perform the flexural vibration along the first direction, and the diffraction grating is disposed on at least one of the first vibration arm and the second vibration arm.
Abstract:
An optical phase modulation amount measurement technology using sound without being affected by noise included in an average light intensity is provided. A sound measurement method includes an interference light generation step of obtaining first light including light subjected to light phase modulation by a sound measurement unit and second light including light subjected to light phase modulation by the sound measurement unit, which differs from the first light, from light emitted from a light source, a first light detection step of obtaining a first electrical signal from the first light, a second light detection step of obtaining a second electrical signal from the second light, and a differential signal generation step of obtaining a differential signal that is a difference between the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal, wherein a phase of the light subjected to light phase modulation included in the first light and a phase of the light subjected to the light phase modulation included in the second light are in an inverted relationship, and an optical phase modulation amount φs by sound is measured as a current Δi of the differential signal expressed by an equation Δi=βIA cos (φs+φ0) (where β is a predetermined constant, IA is an amplitude of an interference fringe, and φ0 is an optical phase modulation amount by an element other than sound).
Abstract:
A three-dimensional measurement device includes: an optical system that splits incident light into two lights and radiates lights to a measurement object and to a reference surface, and recombines the two lights to emit combined light; a first irradiator that emits first light including first polarized light and entering a first surface; a second irradiator that emits second light including second polarized light and entering a second surface; a first imaging system to which the first output light enters wherein the first output light is emitted from the first surface when the first light enters the first surface; a second imaging system to which the second output light enters wherein the second output light is emitted from the second surface when the second light enters the second surface; and an image processor that performs three-dimensional measurement based on interference fringe images obtained by the first and second imaging systems.
Abstract:
A non-invasive system and method. Sample light is delivered into an anatomical structure, such that a portion of the sample light passes through a target voxel comprising brain matter in the head and is scattered by the head as signal light. The signal light is detected, changes in the level of water concentration or relative water concentration of the target voxel are detected based on the detected signal light, and a level of neural activity is determined within the target voxel based on the determined changes level of the water concentration or relative water concentration of the target voxel.
Abstract:
An arrangement for determining four-dimensional properties of an interface of an object, including a light source includes: a unit for forming photonic jets, a unit for performing large field of view interferometric imaging of the interface and their combination, a unit for passing the light being close to the interface and direct the light to the interface, and an image unit. The arrangement includes a unit for performing phase shifting interferometric imaging of the interface, imaging a unit for receiving light from the interface modulated by e.g. microspheres for forming super-resolution image information by combining light interferometry with the photonic jets, and a processor unit for determining four-dimensional properties of the interface on the basis of the image information formed by the phase shifting interferometric imaging by utilizing effect of the photonic jets. The arrangement also can also include a unit to carry out the measurement using polarized light.
Abstract:
There is provided an optical coherence tomography device provided with: an OCT optical system configured to output OCT signal; and an analysis processing unit configured to process the OCT signal and generate motion contrast data of the specimen. The analysis processing unit is provided with: a first image data generation unit configured to process multiple OCT signals to generate first image data representing phase difference information of the multiple OCT signals, and a second image data generation unit configured to process the OCT signal to generate second image data representing amplitude information of the OCT signal. The analysis processing unit generates the motion contrast data based on the phase difference information in the first image data and the amplitude information in the second image data.
Abstract:
A refractive index measurement method uses an interference optical system which divides light from a light source having a plurality of discrete wavelengths into test light and reference light, causes the test light transmitted through the target to interfere with the reference light, and detect the interference light. The refractive index measurement method determines a first optical delay amount of the interference optical system so that a first and a second wavelength become adjacent to a wavelength corresponding to an extremal value of a phase of the interference light, measures phases of interference light at the first and second wavelengths at the first optical delay amount, and calculates a phase difference between a plurality of the discrete wavelengths at a predetermined optical delay amount using the first optical delay amount, the phases of the interference light at the first and second wavelengths to calculate the refractive index of the target.
Abstract:
A fiber optic transducer is provided. The fiber optic transducer includes a fixed portion configured to be secured to a body of interest, a moveable portion having a range of motion with respect to the fixed portion, a spring positioned between the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and a length of fiber wound between the fixed portion and the moveable portion. The length of fiber spans the spring. The fiber optic transducer also includes a mass engaged with the moveable portion. In one disclosed aspect of the transducer, the mass envelopes the moveable portion.
Abstract:
An instantaneous phase-shift interferometer uses a light source having a coherence length shorter than a difference in optical path length between the light reflected from a reference surface and the light reflected from a measured surface. A beam from the light source is split and, using an adjustable delay optical path, a first beam is delayed to cause a difference in optical path length and is superimposed on the same optical axis as a second beam, after which the reference beam and the measurement beam are generated. The optical path length of the delay optical path is changed during adjustment, a plurality of interference fringe images are individually captured, and at least one of a bias, amplitude, and phase shift amount of the interference fringes obtained in each of the interference fringe images is calculated. A shape of a measured object is measured based on bias calculation results, amplitude calculation results, and phase shift amount calculation results.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided to generate tomography images that performs the method. The apparatus and method are configured to determine a basis pattern from modulated phases of incident rays from a spatial light modulator according to a pattern of arranged pixels. The apparatus and method are further configured to perform spatial shift modulation shifting an arrangement of the pixels vertically or horizontally with respect to the basis pattern to obtain shift patterns of the basis pattern. The apparatus and method are configured to generate tomography images for the basis pattern and the shift patterns using spectrum signals of rays obtained from the incident rays passing through the spatial light modulator and entering a subject. The apparatus and method are configured to select a pattern that generates a clearest tomography image of the subject based on the generated tomography images.