摘要:
The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for determining a flow property of a fluid (2). The apparatus comprises a distance and velocity determination unit (3) for determining distances of elements of the fluid to the distance and velocity determination unit (3) and for determining velocities of the elements at the same time based on a self-mixing interference signal. The apparatus (1) comprises further a flow determination unit (4) for determining the flow property of the fluid (2) based on at least one of the determined distances and velocities. This allows determining the flow property, even if the fluid (2) is optically thick.
摘要:
An optical sensor (600) for detecting the movement of an object relative to the position of the optical sensor (600), using self-mixing interference, is described. The optical sensor (600) comprises a laser (100), a detector (200) and a filter device (500). The filter device (500) suppresses measurement signals generated by means of the detector (200) when movements of the object at a velocity below a defined threshold value cause the measurement signals. The optical sensor (600) may be used in a switch in order to enable selective switching depending on the velocity of the movement of the object.
摘要:
A method and a device for simultaneously reading information from a plurality of data tracks (14) of an optical disc (22) by means of a detector illuminating said plurality of data tracks with laser spots (25), wherein light reflected from the laser spots is collected by means of a servo lens (29), further providing the detector with a plurality of detector elements (28a, 28b, 28c, 31a, 42a, 28bc, 28cc, 32a, 32b, 42ac, 51a, 52a, 52b) spaced apart from each other, arranging each detector element to detect (read) light reflected from a data track allotted to each element, arranging at most two detector elements (28bc, 28cc, 32a, 32b, 42ac, 52a, 52b) to be segmented detectors for providing both a power signal for the allotted track and an output signal for focus error control in a servo system guiding said detector along said tracks, reading only the power signal for each track by means of second detector elements (28a, 28b, 28c, 31a, 42a, 51a) and arranging each one of said second detector elements to be of substantially smaller area than the area of one of said first detector elements.
摘要:
A method for measuring the laser power of a forward multiple beam generated by a laser diode array comprising at least two laser diodes, the method comprising a generation step, comprising generating the forward multiple beam; a separation step, comprising separating at least part of the forward multiple beam into individual beams (31, 32, 300, 301, 302, 303), the number of individual beams being equal to the number of laser diodes in the laser diode array, the arrangement being such that each individual beam comprises light originating from a single laser diode and a measurement step, comprising measuring the laser power of each individual beam by means of photo detectors (121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 128). The separation may be performed in space, by means of an imaging lens or making use of vignetting of the collimator lens, or in time.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical reader/writer for a two dimensional storage disc, comprising means (21, 22, 23, 14, 16, 15) for generating a plurality of laser beams and projecting said beams onto a rotating disc, means (24, 25, 26) for detecting the beams after being diffracted by the disc, and means (24, 27, 28) for determining a focus error signal (29) based on one of said plurality of beams. The plurality of beams comprises an array of beams having a first wavelength, and a dedicated focus tracking beam having a second wavelength, and the focus error signal (29) is based on said focus tracking beam. According to the invention, beams having one wavelength is used for the actual accessing of the data on the disc, while a beam having a second wavelength is used for focus tracking. The focus tracking can then be based on one single beam without interference from adjacent beams.
摘要:
A device (1) for scanning an optical disc (6), the disc (6) comprising substantially parallel data tracks (10). The device (1) comprises an optical unit for creating track light spots (12) on the data tracks (10) and a plurality of detector light spots on a plurality of signal detectors. The device further comprises a focus error unit for with a beam manipulating element (21, 22, 22a, 92) for providing for at least one of the reflected beams a first optical path (24) to a first segmented detector (8a) and a second optical path (25) to a second segmented detector (8b). The lengths of the first optical path (24) and the second optical path (25) exhibit a difference (Dd), such that an intensity distribution of a first detector light spot on the first segmented detector (8a) is equal to an intensity distribution of a second detector light spot on the second segmented detector (8b) when the at least one track light spot is correctly focussed and that the intensity distribution on the first segmented detector (8a) differs from the intensity distribution on the second segmented detector (8b) when the at least one track light spot is not correctly focussed. The difference (Dd) is substantially less than a quotient of a distance between two adjacent detector light spots (Ds) and a numerical aperture (NA) of the lens (7). A dimension (D1) of a light detecting area of the segmented detectors in a direction of adjacent detector light spots is less than the distance (Ds) between two adjacent detector light spots.
摘要:
A lithographic apparatus equipped with an improved alignment system, is presented herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a radiation system for providing a projection beam of radiation, a support structure for supporting a patterning device that configures the projection beam according to a desired pattern, a substrate holder for holding a substrate, projection system for projecting the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and an alignment system. The alignment system includes a radiation source for illuminating at least one mark which is usable for alignment on a substrate and an imaging system for imaging light which has interacted with the at least one mark to generate alignment information.