摘要:
Piezoelectric video disc recording cutterheads have small and intricate geometries that make it difficult to compute or measure their mechanical characteristics, especially during the recording process. A monitoring circuit, for use during recording, for monitoring and measuring the mechanical characteristics of a recording cutterhead takes the form of a bridge network. The motional charge or motional current, which are related to the mechanical characteristics of the cutterhead, is measured by means of the bridge network. One branch of the bridge is arranged to include the piezoelectric cutterhead, the other branch comprises a variable capacitor which is adjusted to compensate for the shunt capacitance of the equivalent electrical circuit of the cutterhead. When the variable capacitance is properly adjusted the combination of the currents through the bridge network provides a signal representative of the displacement characteristics of the cutterhead.
摘要:
A probe for use in characterizing tissue. The probe includes a plurality of optical fibers and an optical element. Each fiber includes a distal portion and a proximal portion. The fibers transmit light through the fiber to a surrounding area and collect light reflected back from the surrounding area. The optical element may be adjacent an outer periphery of the distal portion of the plurality of optical fibers. The optical element reduces an optical path length through blood.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical amplifier having various ratios of TE/TM polarization in a multiple quantum well structure on a substrate formed by growing a certain number of quantum wells under compressive strain and others under tensile strain, as well as buffers. The gain coefficients of the respective well layers are chosen such that the overall TE and TM gains are matched over the whole spontaneous emission spectrum so that the semiconductor optical amplifier is polarization-independent.
摘要:
A low coherence light emitting device comprises a semiconductor body with pair of opposed end faces. The device contains a current confining structure which forms an effective optical beam path between the end faces. The current confining structure is inclined at an angle relative to the direction perpendicular to at least one of the end faces. The tangent of this angle is greater than or equal to the effective optical beam path divided by the length of the body between the end faces. The structure thereby forms a device in which off-axis reflection is obtained at at least one of the device's end faces.
摘要:
Interferometers and autocorrelator based sensors are disclosed that are configured to have multiple sample arms which can be scanned and the backscattered low coherence source light from a sample resolved in a single sweep of one or more variable delays of the sensor. Borescopes and catheters capable of scanning multiple sections or areas of materials and tissues using these sensors are described.
摘要:
A method for determining a characteristic of an analyte in a biological sample, the method comprising: directing broadband light by means of a sensing light path at the biological sample, at a target depth defined by the sensing light path and a reference light path; receiving the broadband light reflected from the biological sample by means of the sensing light path; directing the broadband light by means of the reference light path at a fixed reflecting device; and receiving the broadband light reflected from the fixed reflecting device by means of the reference light path. The method also includes interfering the broadband light reflected from the biological sample and the broadband light reflected from the fixed reflecting device; varying an effective light path length of at least one of the reference light path and the sensing light path to define an other target depth; detecting the broadband light resulting from interference of the broadband light reflected from the biological sample and the broadband light reflected from the fixed reflecting device for each of the target depths, to provide an intensity measurement at each of the target depths; and determining the characteristic of the analyte in the biological sample from variations in the intensity measurements.
摘要:
A superluminescent diode having emission layers which emit different wavelengths of light disposed side-by-side whereby light emitting in a first direction from an emission layer having a longer wavelength than an adjacent layer in the first direction is not absorbed. Thus, light of the different wavelengths is represented in an output spectra in the first direction at a point beyond the adjacent layer. A semiconductor optical amplifier is formed by creating a symmetrical structure in which the longest wavelength material is grown in the center and the shortest wavelength material is grown near the facets.
摘要:
A wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) is used to transmit the output light from a superluminescent diode (SLD) over a band approximately equal to the full width half maximum (FWHM) SLD bandwidth and its output serves as an IFOG light source. The residual (uncoupled) spectrum contains two sidelobes, which are then separated by another WDM into a lower half centered around .lambda..sub.1 and an upper half centered around .lambda..sub.2. These sidelobes are detected and fed to a differential amplifier whose output is an error signal which is used in a feedback loop to control the SLD drive current or the drive current of a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) on which the SLD is mounted, both of which affect the SLD spectrum. The same results are achieved using the back output light of the SLD chip. An optical amplifier is also implemented by providing access to the front and rear faces of the SLD and splitting off a small portion of the light from one of the facets for the automatic adjustment.
摘要:
There is provided a super luminescent light emitting device comprising a semiconductor body including a central region and two opposing end regions extending a predetermined distance from the end faces. A gain guiding linear strip of material adjacent to a side of the active region extends between the end faces and is inclined along its longitudinal axis at a predetermined angle relative to a direction normal to at least one of the end faces. An optical beam path of the device has an optical axis of symmetry extending between the end faces parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strip. The beam path has end lateral boundaries at each of the end regions whose lateral carrier and optical confinement is determined by the gain guiding strip to allow light reflected at the end faces to be refracted out of the optical beam path. The device includes index guiding structure extending on opposite sides of the gain guiding strip over the central region of the device parallel to the longitudinal axis of the gain guiding strip. The index guiding structure determines the central lateral boundaries for the optical beam path to provide lateral carrier and optical confinement of the optical beam path at the central region.
摘要:
Disclosed is a random phase diffuser which is inserted between a transducer and an insonification subject in accoustical imaging. The diffuser is comprised of an array of lossless elements which cause sound emitted by the transducer to be passed through and emitted with a phase value of 0.degree. or 180.degree.. Additionally disclosed is the combination of a random phase diffuser with a wedge coupling feature for increasing insonification efficiency.