Abstract:
A wideband device for the spectral analysis of a signal of interest includes a source designed to generate the signal of interest; an optical splitter element designed to spatially split the signal of interest into a first signal and a second signal; a first frequency-shifting optical cavity comprising a first frequency shifter designed to shift the optical frequency of the first signal by a first frequency f1 per round trip in the first cavity, the first cavity having a first trip time τ1; a second frequency-shifting optical cavity comprising a second frequency shifter designed to shift the optical frequency of the second signal by a second frequency f2 per round trip in the second cavity, the second cavity having a second trip time τ2; the first and the second optical cavity being designed such that a maximum number of round trips of the signal in the first and the second cavity is equal to predetermined N; a detector designed to coherently detect the first signal transmitted by the first cavity and the second signal transmitted by the second cavity and generate a photocurrent proportional to a luminous intensity detected by the detector, an analog low-pass filter designed to filter frequencies of the photocurrent that are lower than min (f12/; f2/2) a processor configured to compute a square modulus of the photocurrent filtered by the low-pass filter, from which a temporal representation of frequency information of the signal of interest is determined.
Abstract:
A lighting device that emits illumination light from two or more angular directions onto a sample surface to be measured, an imaging optical lens, and a monochrome two-dimensional image sensor are provided. This configuration provides a method and an apparatus that take a two-dimensional image of the sample surface to be measured at each measurement wavelength and accurately measure multi-angle and spectral information on each of all pixels in the two-dimensional image in a short time. In particular, a multi-angle spectral imaging measurement method and apparatus that have improved accuracy and usefulness are provided.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an acousto-optic main beam splitter for a scanning microscope, which is embodied and intended to direct illuminating light having a preselected or preselectable illuminating light wavelength into an illumination beam path for illumination of a sample, and to direct detected light coming from a sample into a detection beam path. The acousto-optic main beam splitter is characterized in that a mechanical wave having an acoustic frequency associated with the illuminating light wavelength propagates, or multiple mechanical waves that have the same acoustic frequency associated with the illuminating light wavelength propagate, in the acousto-optic main beam splitter, both a portion of the detected light bundle having the illuminating light wavelength and a first linear polarization direction, and a portion of the detected light having the illuminating light wavelength and a second linear polarization direction perpendicular to the first linear polarization direction, being deflected out of the detected light bundle coming from a sample by interaction with the one mechanical wave or by interaction with the mechanical waves, and are thereby removed from the detected light bundle; and/or the acousto-optic main beam splitter being embodied to direct, by interaction with the one mechanical wave or by interaction with the mechanical waves, both the portion of illuminating light that has the preselected illuminating light wavelength and a first linear polarization direction, and the portion of illuminating light that has the preselected illuminating light wavelength and a second linear polarization direction that is different from, in particular perpendicular to, the first linear polarization direction, into an illumination beam path for illumination of a sample.
Abstract:
A device for measuring calories of food items includes a food item holding unit on which an inspection-target food item including a plurality of food materials is placed, a light source for radiating near-infrared rays at a specific wavelength region to the food item, and a light reception unit that receives light emitted from the light source and then reflected from the food item. The light receiving device receives light reflected from the food item when the near-infrared rays at the specific wavelength are radiated to the food item. A control unit calculates calories of the food item in accordance with measurement values of absorbances of the near-infrared rays at the specific wavelength region which are received by the light reception unit.
Abstract:
A device measures a spectral distribution with respect to each of a plurality of color charts, sets default values to band specification data, and computes a camera output signal based on spectral sensitivity of the multiband camera and spectral feature of light from each of the plurality of charts. The device computes a candidate value of a spectral estimation parameter from the measured spectral distribution of each color chart and the computed camera output signal. The device successively varies the band specification data from the default values to make an evaluation function approach a target value, determines a spectral estimation parameter corresponding to the band specification data when the evaluation function reaches the target value. The evaluation function is defined to correlate the measured spectral distribution of each color chart to a spectral estimation value computed from the candidate value of the spectral estimation parameter and the camera output signal.
Abstract:
A method of detecting oxygen and/or chemical content in a subject, comprising generating at least one spectral image of the subject; generating at least one spectral image of a reference object; comparing spectrum from the subject image to the reference image to thereby reveal the relative oxygen content of the subject. A system for determining the level of oxygenation of the blood of a subject body part comprising: a hyperspectral image generator for generating a plurality of spectral images; an image capture device for capturing the spectral images; a processor for generating hyperspectral image cubes such that the spectrum of the body part is extracted and normalized using the spectrum from the reference object to cancel out the spectral response of the light source and the imager; said processor comparing spectral from a subject image to reference images to thereby reveal the relative oxygen content of the subject.
Abstract:
A method for operating an optical filter in multiple modes. In one embodiment, an optical filter may be operated in a sensitivity mode to thereby generate a white light image representative of a region of interest. The optical filter may then be operated in a specificity mode to thereby generate a hyperspectral image representative of said region of interest. The white light image and the hyperspectral image may be fused to generate a hybrid image that provides morphological and hyperspectral data. The white light image and the hyperspectral image may be generated using a single detector, eliminating the need for image realignment.
Abstract:
An imaging system includes a platform for placement of a sample or an animal to be imaged, and at least one excitation light source for irradiating the sample or animal to stimulate an emission at a plurality of different center wavelengths. An acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is provided that includes a piezoelectric transducer crystal for emitting an acoustic wave having a ground electrode disposed on one side of the piezoelectric crystal. A patterned electrode layer is disposed on a side of the piezoelectric crystal opposite the ground electrode. The patterned electrode layer includes a continuous region proximate to its center and a discontinuous region, a pattern in the discontinuous region comprising a plurality of spaced apart features electrically connected to the continuous region, and an AO interaction crystal receiving the acoustic wave attached to the ground electrode or the patterned electrode layer.
Abstract:
A light source estimating device includes: a distribution holding section holding a spectral energy distribution of a specific light source as a specular reflection component; a set generating section generating a set determined by the specular reflection component and pixel data of the input image in a predetermined space, with respect to each pixel data of the input image; a detecting section detecting, with respect to each pixel data of the input image, another pixel data neighboring the pixel data and included in the set; and a determining section determining whether or not the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture, by setting a likelihood that the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture high if the other pixel data exists, and setting a likelihood that the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture low if the other pixel data does not exist.
Abstract:
An optical spectrum analyzer detects a light output that is dependent on the frequency of light in a wavelength range of light to be measured. The optical spectrum analyzer includes a waveguide acousto-optic tunable filter including a piezoelectric substrate, optical waveguides, and an IDT, a light source for providing, to the waveguide acousto-optic tunable filter, reference light having a particular wavelength outside the wavelength range, a driving circuit for providing, to the waveguide acousto-optic tunable filter, a high frequency signal for exciting an IDT, and an arithmetic device that, on the basis of the wavelength of selected light when reference light is incident, and an exciting frequency, corrects the wavelength of the selected light, which is obtained from the light to be measured.