摘要:
A method for analyzing wavefront-gradient data of a light beam, the light beam containing at least one optical vortex in order to estimate the contribution of the optical vortices to the wavefront, the method comprising: providing a phase-gradient map g of the wavefront of the light beam, generating a Laplacian of a vector potential based on the phase gradient map g, the resulting Laplacian of the vector potential map, called "Laplacian map", exhibiting peaks, the location of each peak corresponding to the location of an optical vortex and the integral of the peak being proportional to a topological charge n of said optical vortex, computing a singular phase map ϕs based on the topological charge n and location of each optical vortex computed in steps i) and ii), the singular phase ϕs map being representative of the contribution of the optical vortex.
摘要:
The invention concerns an optical system (10) comprising: - a spatial light modulator (13) comprising an array of controllable elements adapted for generating a modulated light beam (17) by diffracting an incident light beam (12), the modulated light beam (17) comprising a modulated part and an unmodulated "zero order" part, the modulated part carrying an image to be projected into a replay volume (18), - a control unit for applying a control signal to the controllable elements so as to control the modulated light beam (17) generated by the controllable elements, - a perturbing optical element (30) for introducing optical aberrations in the incident light beam (12) and/or the modulated light beam (17) so as to spread the unmodulated "zero order" part of the modulated light beam in the replay volume (18), the perturbing optical element (30) generating distortions in the image to be projected, wherein the control signal comprises an image signal component carrying data representative of the image to be projected and a correction signal component representative of a correction pattern for correcting the distortions generated by the perturbing optical element (30) in the image to be projected.
摘要:
A method for determining wavefront shapes of N angular channels C L of different propagation directions P L , said propagation directions P L being determined by a mean propagation direction vector u L ⇀ , from a single signal image acquisition I(x,y) of a multi-angular signal light beam containing said angular channels, each angular channel Ci being separated from other angular channels Cj by an angular separation Δα ij defined by Δ α ij = arccos u ι ⇀ u J ⇀ , where "." stands for the inner product between u ι ⇀ and u J ⇀ .
摘要:
A microscope (1) for high spatial resolution imaging a structure of interest in a sample (2) comprising a substance having a first state with first spectral properties and a second state with second spectral properties, the microscope comprising: an objective-lens assembly (3), a wave front modulating optical device (10) adapted to spatially vary an intensity of a transfer light beam (5b), a probe detector (15) arranged to detect an optical measurement signal from a portion of the substance in the second state and placed in an area of the transfer light beam (5b) with an intensity adapted not to transfer the substance between the first and second states said microscope (1) comprising a phase contrast microscopy system which includes an intensity detector (26) arranged to detect an intensity of an illuminating light beam (17) after said illuminating light beam (17) has passed through the sample (2), the objective-lens assembly (3) and the wave front modulating optical device (10).
摘要:
A method for generating data related at least to the polarization state and the polarization rate, and advantageously to the wavefront shapes, of an incident light beam (51) of any polarization state and any polarization rate, from a single intensity image acquisition Isensor of said light beam (51), using a polarization and wavefront shape imaging system (1) which comprises a polarization modulating mask (2) being a diffractive optical element, and an intensity sensor camera (3), the method comprising : (A) having previously recorded one set of at least four reference intensity patterns (N1), (B) recording the single intensity image Isensor of said incident light beam (51), (C) processing the single intensity image Isensor based on the reference intensity patterns to generate the data related to the polarization state and the polarization rate, and advantageously to the wavefront shapes of the incident light beam (51).
摘要:
A method for determining wavefront shapes of a multi-spectral signal light beam (12) from a single signal image acquisition of said multi-spectral signal light beam (12), with a device (16) comprising an optical assembly made at least of an optical mask (14) and an imaging sensor (18), notably a matrix imaging sensor, for generating and recording intensity patterns of incident beams, by having these beams reflect on, or propagate through, the optical mask, the optical mask having the optical properties: i) to cause the intensity pattern to depend on the wavefront shape, so that a tilt applied to the wavefront shape results in a displacement amount of the intensity pattern, ii) to produce uncorrelated intensity patterns over at least one surface area A of the imaging sensor, for a plurality of respective incident monochromatic beams of different wavelengths having a same wavefront shape.