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A Primer on Displacement Measuring Interferometers
A Displacement Measuring Interferometer (DMI) measures linear and angular displacements with very high accuracy and precision. DMI's are used in a variety of applications which can be broken into two broad categories: • high resolution real time position control systems, such as those used
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Instantaneous Phase-Shift, Point-Diffraction Interferometer
assembly. Thus, a real-time measurement system capable of operation at blue wavelength and at high numerical aperture is of significant utility for the fabrication and test of next generation of optical data storage devices. Point diffraction interferometry is a simple, self-referencing configuration
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Spatial Coherence in Interferometry
" with the special feature that it not only images an. object at infinity into an image at infinity (see the imaging of the light source), but in addition a. real object placed in front of the first lens system is imaged into a real image behind the. second lens system. This is illustrated in figure 1
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Dynamic Interferometry: Getting Rid of the Jitters
must be reduced if accuracy is to be. s. i. Conditions on the factory floor fringe pattern may also change sig- achieved in a real-world environment s,. and in industrial cleanrooms. nificantly between exposures. where air turbulence and vibration. T. e. with high-capacity air filtra-. In its simplest
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Another way to peer inside the body
OCT image (approximately 7 x 15 mm) of the anterior segment of the eye. These are real-time endoscopic OCT images of normal human A) esophagus, B) stomach, C) small intestine, and D) colon. Images are 600 600 pixels reconstructed from 1,000 depth scans and were recorded, transformed, and displayed
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MICRO: Special Apps
fabrication, it is essential to etch 3-D MEMS structures to a consistent depth wafer after wafer, requiring a high level of control. However, after-the-event ex situ control of etch depth is expensive. To achieve adequate real-time depth control without the need for ex situ metrology, advanced in situ
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Durable Fiber Optic End-Face
. optic transmission. MEGLADON'S HARDENED-LENS CONTACT (HLC®). TERMINATION PROCESS. The method of producing the HLC (lensed fiber ends via laser action) fiber optic. assembly offers many advantages, the most prominent of which are durability (long-. term, repeated ease of use in real-world environments
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Optical Metrology for Large Telescope Optics
. The demanding environment, as well as the extreme vibration from. support equipment, make such real-world testing virtually impossible with traditional interferometers. Many modern designs rely upon non-traditional elements, such as conformable mirrors or aspheric optics. Char-. acterizing these new elements