Abstract:
An optical spectrum measuring apparatus includes: a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) detector including a plurality of light-receiving devices that are two-dimensionally arranged; an optical system configured to split incident light into rays and irradiate the CCD detector with the rays; and a restriction unit configured to restrict one or more rows and/or one or more columns out of the rows and columns of the plurality of light-receiving devices from being irradiated with light from the optical system.
Abstract:
Provided are gaze tracking apparatuses, which in some embodiments can include an optoelectronic device, wherein the optoelectronic device includes an image sensor with non-local readout circuit having a substrate and a plurality of pixels and operatively connected to a control unit, wherein a first area of the substrate is at least partially transparent to visible light and at least the plurality of pixels of the image sensor are arranged on the first area of the substrate to aim to an eye of a user when placed in front of an inner face of the substrate, and wherein the control unit is also adapted to control the image sensor to acquire image information from the user's eye for performing a gaze tracking of the user's eye.
Abstract:
A device includes a first multi-element image sensor; a second multi-element image sensor; and a polarizing layer positioned between the first and second multi-element image sensors. A portion of light having a first polarization state incident on the device along a first direction is transmitted through the first image sensor, is transmitted through the polarizing layer, and is detected by the second image sensor, and light having a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state incident on the device along the first direction is transmitted through the first image sensor, is blocked by the polarizing layer.
Abstract:
One embodiment of a Raman spectrometer having a temperature controlled diode laser with Bragg grating optical feedback 100 which provides a means for the acquisition of Raman spectra using sequentially shifted excitations and provides a means for spectral processing to obtain a Raman spectrum which is free from background interference such as fluorescence.
Abstract:
A fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analyzer 1 is equipped with an excitation light illuminating optical system 21, a fluorescence imaging optical system 22, a CCD camera 15, and a data analyzer 16. The excitation light illuminating optical system 21 illuminates excitation light onto a predetermined region of a measured sample S. The fluorescence imaging optical system 22 images the fluorescence generated at the measured sample S onto the photodetection surface of the CCD camera 15. The CCD camera 15 performs photoelectric conversion of the fluorescence made incident onto the photodetection surface in accordance with the respective pixels and outputs the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion as detection signals from an output terminal. The data analyzer 16 inputs the detection signals based on the charges generated at the pixels, among the pixels of the CCD camera 15, that belong to an analyzed pixel set and computes autocorrelation functions of the input detection signals according to each pixel. A fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analyzer, which is enabled to perform fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analysis on multiple points of a measured sample simultaneously and at high speed, is thus provided.
Abstract:
A method of generating laser pulses (1) includes: creating a circulating light field in resonator device (11) having resonator length L and an intra-cavity dispersion and configured for supporting light field resonator modes, and generating a pulse train of laser pulses (1) by a mode-locking mechanism. Laser pulses (1) are generated with a repetition frequency and provide a frequency comb with carrier frequency ωo and comb modes in frequency space. The intra-cavity dispersion is selected such that round trip phases ϕ have a dependency on frequency ω according to φ ( ω ) = π m ( 1 + 4 ω - ω 0 m ω r - 1 ) + L c ω 0 wherein m is an integer providing effective repetition rate (mωr) in combination with mode spacing ωr at optical carrier frequency (ωo), and the mode-locking mechanism provides a coupling of the resonator modes whereby frequency difference (Δn=ωn+1−ωn) between neighboring mode frequencies (ωn, ωn+1) is a linear function of mode frequency number n. Furthermore, a spectroscopy method for investigating a sample, a laser pulse source apparatus and a spectroscopy apparatus are described.
Abstract:
Various embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for low-cost, low-power Array Waveguide Grating (AWG)-based miniaturized Raman spectroscopy for use in non-invasive glucose monitoring systems, such as in wearable devices that require no replenishment of chemicals or enzymes. The AWG may be manufactured using VLSI processing technology, which significantly reduces manufacturing cost and replaces holographic grating as the dispersive component of light. In embodiments, the AWG is integrated with a number of PIN photodiode detectors on a substrate to further reduce cost and signal loss. In embodiments, a prism-coupling method eliminates alignment problems associated with traditional approaches that utilize fiber-coupling methods.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical systems. The envisaged multi-scan optical system is compact and stable. The system comprises an excitation source, a hydra fiber cable, a wavelength selector, an optical element, and a detector. The excitation source is configured to emit composite light. The hydra fiber cable has a head and a plurality of tentacles, and is configured to receive the composite light via a second lens. The plurality of tentacles is configured to emit the composite light towards the wavelength selector which includes a plurality of optical slits (s1-s8) and a plurality of shutters. The wavelength selector is configured to selectively collect and filter the composite light directed by a first lens and the plurality of tentacles by means of the plurality of shutters. The detector is configured to detect the plurality of spectral line scans reflected by the optical element for spectrometric analysis.
Abstract:
A solid-state image sensor and an imaging system with a two-dimensional pixel array, and a plurality of types of filters that are arranged facing a pixel region of the two-dimensional pixel array, the filters each including a spectrum function and a periodic fine pattern shorter than a wavelength to be detected, wherein each of the filters forms a unit which is larger than the photoelectric conversion device of each pixel on the two-dimensional pixel array, where one type of filter is arranged for a plurality of adjacent photoelectric conversion device groups, wherein the plurality of types of filters are arranged for adjacent unit groups to form a filter bank, and wherein the filter banks are arranged in a unit of N×M, where N and M are integers of one or more, facing the pixel region of the two-dimensional pixel array.
Abstract:
An absolute-type linear encoder absolute signal consistency correction method, related to the field of absolute-type linear encoder measurements, for solving the problem of narrow linear range for photoelectric responses and large signal dispersion found in an existing consistency correction method for a photoelectric conversion component and a processing circuit thereof. The correction method allows for enhanced absolute signal quality and increased system measurement precision.