Atmospheric characterization systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11879981B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-23

    申请号:US17951386

    申请日:2022-09-23

    申请人: BlueHalo, LLC

    摘要: The present disclosure is of an atmospheric characterization system that has a central processing board that has a first and a second communication interface. Further, the atmospheric characterization system further has a first precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the first communication interface and positioned a distance from a first side of the processing board, wherein the precision temperature measures a first temperature and transfers data indicative of the first temperature to the central processing board. In addition, the atmospheric characterization system has a second precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the second communication interface and positioned the distance from a second opposing side of the processing board such that the first precision temperature sensor and the second precision temperature sensor are equidistance from the processing board and a distance between the first precision sensor and the second precision sensor is a predetermined distance, r, and the second precision temperature sensor measures a second temperature and transfers data indicative of the second temperature to the central processing board simultaneously with the transferring of the first temperature. Additionally, the atmospheric characterization system has a processor that receives the first temperature and the second temperature and calculates a value indicative of atmospheric turbulence based upon the first temperature and the second temperature, wherein the value indicative of the atmospheric turbulence is used for designing, modifying, calibrating, or correcting an optical system.

    Atmospheric characterization systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11487015B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US15997304

    申请日:2018-06-04

    申请人: BLUEHALO LLC

    摘要: The present disclosure is of an atmospheric characterization system that has a central processing board that has a first and a second communication interface. Further, the atmospheric characterization system further has a first precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the first communication interface and positioned a distance from a first side of the processing board, wherein the precision temperature measures a first temperature and transfers data indicative of the first temperature to the central processing board. In addition, the atmospheric characterization system has a second precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the second communication interface and positioned the distance from a second opposing side of the processing board such that the first precision temperature sensor and the second precision temperature sensor are equidistance from the processing board and a distance between the first precision sensor and the second precision sensor is a predetermined distance, r, and the second precision temperature sensor measures a second temperature and transfers data indicative of the second temperature to the central processing board simultaneously with the transferring of the first temperature. Additionally, the atmospheric characterization system has a processor that receives the first temperature and the second temperature and calculates a value indicative of atmospheric turbulence based upon the first temperature and the second temperature, wherein the value indicative of the atmospheric turbulence is used for designing, modifying, calibrating, or correcting an optical system.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING THREE-DOMAIN INFORMATION OF ULTRAFAST LIGHT FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20220299374A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US16964095

    申请日:2019-06-21

    IPC分类号: G01J11/00 G01J9/04

    摘要: Disclosed are a method and a system for acquiring three-domain information of ultrafast light field. The method includes: acquiring time-domain information at positions of respective spatial points in a first signal to be measured; acquiring first frequency-domain information of continuous light portions at positions of respective spatial points in a second signal to be measured; acquiring second frequency-domain information of pulse light portions at positions of respective spatial points in a third signal to be measured; and fusing the time-domain information, the first frequency-domain information, and the second frequency-domain information, and determining three-domain information of an ultrafast light field signal according to information obtained by the fusion; wherein, the first signal to be measured, the second signal to be measured and the third signal to be measured are three signals obtained by splitting the ultrafast light field signal to be measured.

    Wavefront detector
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11215511B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16763857

    申请日:2018-11-20

    发明人: Rudolf Saathof

    IPC分类号: G01J9/02 G01N21/45 G01J9/04

    摘要: A wavefront detector (100) and method for determining a signal wavefront (Ws) of a signal beam (Ls). A beam combiner (11) is configured to combine the signal beam (Ls) with a reference beam (Lr). An image detector (12) comprising an array of photosensitive pixels (12p) is configured to receive and measure an interference pattern (Wrs) of the combined signal and reference beams (Lr+Ls). A reference light source (14) is configured to generate the reference beam (Lr). A feedback controller (20) is configured to receive an interference signal (IB) based on measurement of at least part of the combined signal and reference beams (Lr+Ls), and control generation of the reference beam (Lr) by a feedback loop based on the interference signal (IB).

    Spectral shearing ladar
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10274377B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-30

    申请号:US15782327

    申请日:2017-10-12

    摘要: A ladar device that has a linear frequency-modulated laser source that produces a primary beam. An optical shear generator spectrally shears the primary beam into no less than three sensing beams. An optical output delivers at least one of the sensing beams toward a target. The sensing beams reflect from the target to produce reflected beams. An optical receiver receives the reflected beams and produces reflected beam signals corresponding to characteristics of the reflected beams. A processor receives the reflected beam signals and produces a deviation matrix, without the use of a local oscillator. The deviation matrix is used to produce a reconstruction of the target, which is output on an electrical signal output.

    Laser frequency measurement method using optical frequency comb

    公开(公告)号:US10161805B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-25

    申请号:US15943429

    申请日:2018-04-02

    发明人: Kazuhiko Kawasaki

    IPC分类号: G01J9/04 H01S3/13

    摘要: To measure the frequency of a laser, the frequency of a beat signal that is generated by the interference between an optical frequency comb, used as the reference of measurement, and the laser to be measured is measured. In such a laser frequency measurement using the optical frequency comb, at least one of a repetition frequency and a CEO frequency of the optical frequency comb is changed so that the frequency of the beat signal becomes a predetermined value, and the frequency of the beat signal is measured, so that the frequency of the laser is measured. This allows measurement of the frequency of laser having large frequency variation and low stability.

    Optical interferometer, data acquisition device, and data acquisition method

    公开(公告)号:US09599454B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-21

    申请号:US14348495

    申请日:2012-09-27

    发明人: Hiroharu Yui

    摘要: An optical interferometer includes: a light source that emits a coherent first beam and a second beam that has a frequency difference corresponding to the natural frequency of a target molecule; amplitude modulating means that modulates the amplitude of the second beam; splitting means that splits the first beam into a reference beam and a first applied beam; optical path length adjusting means that adjusts the optical path length of the reference beam; and detecting means that detects an interference pattern between the reference beam and the first beam (a signal beam) that has experienced a stimulated Raman loss or gain in accordance with the amplitude modulation as a result of the frequency difference resonating with the target molecule when the first applied beam and a second applied beam (the amplitude modulated second beam) have been applied to a measurement position of an object.

    High speed high resolution heterodyne interferometric method and system
    10.
    发明授权
    High speed high resolution heterodyne interferometric method and system 有权
    高速高分辨率外差干涉法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US09587927B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-07

    申请号:US14378880

    申请日:2012-11-08

    摘要: A high speed high resolution heterodyne interferometric method and system are provided. The invention uses two spatially separated beams with slightly different frequencies and has two measurement signals with opposite Doppler shift. The switching circuit selects one of the two measurement signals for displacement measurement according to the direction and speed of the target movement. In this invention, the measurement is insensitive to the thermal variation; the periodic nonlinearity is essentially eliminated by using two spatially separated beams; the measurable target speed of the interferometer is no longer limited by the beat frequency of the laser source.

    摘要翻译: 提供了高速高分辨率外差干涉法和系统。 本发明使用具有稍微不同频率的两个空间分离的波束,并且具有相反多普勒频移的两个测量信号。 开关电路根据目标运动的方向和速度选择两个测量信号中的一个用于位移测量。 在本发明中,测量对热变化不敏感; 通过使用两个空间分离的光束基本上消除了周期性非线性; 干涉仪的可测量目标速度不再受激光源的拍频的限制。