软X射线双频光栅剪切干涉法研究

本文中设计了一种利用软X射线双频光栅作为剪切干涉元件的剪切系统, 使剪切干涉法在软X射线波段得到了应用. 介绍了软X射线双频光栅的结构及衍射特性, 在同步辐射光束线对双频光栅的效率分布进行了测试实验, 两个剪切级次的效率比值高于75%, 干扰级次效率低于5%. 利用软X射线双频光栅为剪切干涉光学元件, 对待测靶进行了静态检测, 得到了对比度高, 稳定的干涉条纹, 验证了该方法在软X射线等离子体密度诊断中的可行性. 关键词： 双频光栅 剪切干涉仪 软X射线 等离子体诊断     

横向剪切可变的双焦距波带板干涉仪

本文提出了一种应用双焦距波带板做为横向剪切元件的干涉仪,适用于检测会聚波面像差。它结构简单,不仅具有Ronchi光栅检测的优点,而且条纹对比度好,可根据需要改变剪切量,不需要更换波带板。这种干涉仪可由在波带板平面内移动波带板,获得待测波面任意方向的剪切干涉图。双焦距波带板可用全息方法很容易制作。文中给出了实验结果。     

Phase shifting speckle shearing polarization interferometer using a birefringent wedge

A digital speckle pattern shearing interferometer is presented which utilizes a single birefringent wedge. Two orthogonally polarized images of an object measured are sheared by the wedge, and the bias phase difference between two polarized images is shifted by translating the wedge. The phase shifting technique applied to speckle pattern shearing interferometry makes it possible to analyze a slope and surface strain numerically. The fringe formation in the present interferometer is analyzed with statistical theory. Experimental results are also presented in two cases: (1) measurement of a slope and normal displacement with a single illumination; (2) simultaneous and separate measurement of a slope and surface strain with two symmetrical illuminations.     

偏振光干涉法消除光纤光栅解调中的交叉敏感现象

提出一种偏振光干涉的光纤光栅应变测量方法,该方法能解决光纤光栅应变和温度测量时的交叉敏感问题。对于钒酸钇晶体偏振光干涉仪,如果选择两个能使干涉仪产生180°相位差的不同中心波长的光纤光栅,一个用于应变测量,一个用于补偿温度,就能很好地解决光纤光栅应变测量时的温度交叉敏感问题。分析了构成偏振光干涉仪的晶体的厚度对应变偏差的影响。理论计算和试验结果显示,当晶体厚度为0.5 mm时温度对应变测量的交叉敏感现象被压缩到了1.6%,相当于0.13με/℃。进一步的仿真分析发现当晶体厚度为0.1 mm时交叉敏感现象将被压缩到0.08%,相当于0.0067με/℃。小的晶体厚度有利于减小交叉敏感现象,但小厚度的晶体加工困难,为此分析了双晶体结构的方案。     

Angular Multiplexing Storage in Azo-polymer Liquid Crystal Films Using Shearing Interferometer of Double-frequency Grating

In this paper, the shearing interferometer of a double-frequency grating (DFG) and a small compact Nd∶YVO4 double frequency laser at 532 nm are used to study the multiple storage in azo-polymer liquid crystal (PLC) films. In a principle experiment, the angle-encoded multiple gratings are recorded and the experimental results give triplex gratings at the same region in azo-PLC films, the angle between two adjacent grating vectors being 45°. Compared to the two-beam interferometer and four-wave mixing method, this method has simple configuration, high fringe contrast and quake-proof. A compatible angular multiplexing storage system in azo-PLC films is proposed.     

光学相干性综合实验

利用双频光栅剪切干涉法，CCD摄像机采集剪切干涉条纹图，用自行设计的软件对图像进行处理，可定量测量光场的时空相干性以及梯度折射率透镜的像差。     

Non-destructive collimation technique for measuring glass constants using a Ronchi grating shearing interferometer

A non-destructive liquid immersion collimation technique in combination with a Ronchi grating shearing interferometer has been used for determining the constants of a transparent glass material, especially when it is in the form of a lens. Due to its simplicity and the fact that it will work equally well at any wavelength, the technique is superior to existing methods for determining the various glass constants (refractive index, Abbe number or v-value, partial dispersion factor etc).The shearing fringes appearing inside a Ronchi-gram are adequate to locate the exact position of the point source which has been treated as the target in the present communication. The fringe-free space in the overlapping region between the two laterally displaced spherical wavefronts indicates the sharply focused position of the target which corresponds to zero defocusing. In this way the target displacements with different liquids are determined.     

Phase-shifting lateral shearing interferometer with two pairs of wedge plates

We present a compact and robust phase-shifting lateral shearing interferometer that produces shearing fringes in orthogonal directions without any mechanical rotation or precise alignment. It consists of two pairs of wedge plates, a beam splitter, and a single CCD camera. Both phase-shifting and tilt for lateral shearing are achieved with two pairs of wedge plates, which can reduce systematic errors caused by external vibration and atmospheric disturbance.     

相干合成子光束一致性检测研究

分析了激光相干合成装置及其光路调整要求,提出利用剪切干涉检测合成光路中子光束一致性的方法。分析剪切干涉原理,建立了剪切板干涉物理模型,以相干合成中两路矩形光束拼接组束为例,数值模拟并研究了子光束的整体倾斜、离焦所对应的剪切干涉条纹,得到了条纹图像与子光束光轴误差、离焦误差之间的对应关系,用于相干合成光路中子光束光轴和发散角误差的判断。光轴倾斜大于5μrad时,可以直接观察互干涉和自干涉条纹变化,发散角在大于10μrad时,干涉条纹变化明显。此外,剪切干涉的自干涉条纹平移可用来检测子光束间的活塞误差,可作为光束拼接相干合成中闭环相位检测和控制的手段。     

Phase-difference amplification using a Sagnac interferometer

In this paper, we describe a new method for achieving phase-difference amplification, which is quick and convenient, operates in real time, and requires no photographic steps. Magnification factors of 2, 4 or 6 are achieved easily in one step. Because the system operates in real time, phase stepping may be applied to extract the amplified phase distributions. Our method is a variation on longitudinally reversed shearing interferometry, using first- or higher-order diffraction from a grating (hologram) which is in fact the interferogram of the wavefront under test. The grating is derived from a standard two-beam interferometer which is phase-stepped, and displayed in real time on a spatial light modulator in the phase-difference amplification setup. It is illuminated by the two output beams from a Sagnac interferometer, similar to the set up used by (Barnes et al. Barnes TH, Eiju T, Matsuda K. Appl Opt 1986; 25:1864). for spectral resolution enhancement, and a phase-amplified fringe pattern is obtained by spatial filtering using a Fourier transform lens. We demonstrate operation of the phase amplifier and show amplified phase maps retrieved by phase-stepping. We believe this is the first time that real-time phase amplification without photographic steps and with phase stepping has been demonstrated.     

Polarization phase-shifting Jamin shearing interferometer

The Jamin shearing interferometer is very useful in wavefront testing, especially for the low coherent light. Based on this interferometer, a polarization phase-shifting Jamin shearing interferometer is proposed to improve the performance. In the interferometer, two interference beams are linearly polarized and a polarization phase shifter is applied to realize the phase shifting. Different types of configurations of the interferometer are given. With phase-shifting interferograms, the precision of the interferometer can be improved. The interferometer is kept as an equal optical path system and its shearing amount remains changeable with simple structure and easy operation. In experiments, phase-shifting interferograms are obtained by rotating the analyzer. The usefulness of the interferometer is verified.     

用3×3耦合器的干涉仪直接解调光纤光栅传感器的信号

为了简单直接地解调出光纤光栅的波长移动 ,提出了另外一种非平衡马赫曾德尔干涉仪的直接解调技术。用一只 2× 2耦合器和一只 3× 3耦合器组成非平衡的马赫曾德尔光纤干涉仪 ,作为光纤光栅的波长移动解调器。解调器输出的 3路信号 ,互成 12 0°相位差。通过对 3路输出信号计算的方法 ,就可以直接解调出光纤光栅的波长移动。将 3路信号采集送入计算机 ,用软件实现了信号的解调。测量结果表明 ,在干涉仪两臂长度相关 5mm时 ,测量动态应变的分辨率达到了 0 5 1nε/Hz1/2 。还得到了输出信号的频谱和输入输出信号的关系。     

A compact, robust and versatile moiré interferometer

A moiré interferometer was designed and constructed based on a general system design using a reflective crossed-line diffraction grating to produce the four beams of light necessary for moiré interferometry. The design concept, basic design and tuning procedures are discussed. The important features of the interferometer, i.e. compactness, versatility, polarization insensitivity, relaxed collimation requirements, low laser power and remote optics, are addressed. Several such interferometers have been constructed and successfully applied to engineering problems. These include examining the displacement fields surrounding drilled and preformed holes in composite laminates loaded in tension, and the evaluation of nonhomogeneous behavior in textile composites.     

新式横向剪切干涉系统对天然气管道泄漏野外监测的研究

针对机械扫描式光谱分析设备抗震、抗干扰能力差等问题影响其在野外检测天然气管道泄露的精确度,设计了一种新式的抗震型横向剪切干涉系统。将分束镜作为机械扫描部分产生光程差,通过两个分束镜之间的连杆将引入的外部震动、干扰等相互抵消。计算了产生干涉条纹的干涉强度,分析了旋转分束镜对应角度的光程差函数,并求解了正向旋转和逆向旋转的最大角度,即可调节的最大光程范围。实验采用天然气罐放气模拟天然气管道泄露过程,在有干扰的条件下对本系统和WQF530型光谱仪的测试数据进行对比。实验结果显示,在室内没干扰的条件下,两者相对误差都在1%左右。但在有干扰的实际环境中,WQF530型光谱仪误差明显变大,均超过10%,而本系统的误差在5%以下。所以,本系统具有有效降低由于外部干扰造成的检测误差,比传统机械扫描式干涉设备更适用于野外探测。     

Strain and vibration analysis by fibre based speckle shearing interferometry

An optical fibre based, speckle shearing interferometer is described. The instrument uses a highly birefringent optical fibre to illuminate a test object with equal intensities of light guided by the orthogonal polarisation eigenstates of the fibre. A Wollaston prism is used to obtain two sheared images with adjustable shear. Optical phase changes between the sheared images are readily achieved, without mechanical movement of components, by straining the optical fibre. Object strain determination, by fringe analysis with phase stepping techniques, is readily achieved. Vibration analysis by heterodyning is also reported.     

Simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain using a long-period fiber grating with a micro-taper

An all-fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) consisting of a long-period fiber grating with a micro-taper is proposed for simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain. The experimental results demonstrate that the temperature and strain sensitivities of the proposed MZI are 83 pm/°C and ?2.6 pm/με, respectively. The strain sensitivity is 20 times as high as that of a long-period fiber written by CO₂ laser pulses combined with a fiber bitaper. In addition, the interferometer requires only a common single-mode fiber, and it is easy to fabricate and is inexpensive for temperature and strain sensing applications.     

Photopolymer diffractive optical elements in electronic speckle pattern shearing interferometry

In this paper we present an electronic speckle pattern shearing interferometer using a photopolymer diffractive optical element in the form of a holographic grating, in combination with a ground glass to shear the images. The sheared images on the ground glass are further imaged onto a CCD camera. The distance between the grating and the ground glass can be used to control the shear and to vary the sensitivity of the system. The direction of sensitivity is easily controlled by rotation of the diffraction grating around its normal.Introducing photopolymer holographic gratings in ESPSI gives the advantage of using high aperture optical elements at relatively low cost. The fact that the diffractive optical element is a photopolymer layer on glass substrate with thickness of 2 mm makes for a compact optical system.The system was successfully used for detection of the resonant frequencies of a vibrating object.Most of the published work on vibration analysis is analytical. Very few experimental results are available in the literature. The well known laser Doppler vibrometers (LDV) and accelerometers used for modal analysis are pointwise measurement techniques, although multipoint LDV is available at significant cost.Electronic speckle pattern techniques suitable for experimental detection of the resonant frequencies of vibrating objects are very promising for vibration analysis because they are whole field and non-contact.A finite element model is developed for prediction of the vibration modes of the object under test. Detection of vibrational modes of aluminium diaphragm is demonstrated and compared with the theoretical model. The results obtained are very promising for future application of ESPSI systems with HOEs, for modal analysis. A significant advantage of shearography over electronic speckle pattern interferometry is that ESPSI is relatively insensitive to external disturbances. Another advantage of the proposed system is that it could be easily converted to a phase-shifting electronic speckle shearing interferometer.     

Quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry in an achromatic and continuously self-imaging regime for future x-ray phase imaging

We present in this Letter a type of quadriwave lateral shearing interferometer for x-ray phase imaging. This device is based on a phase chessboard, and we take advantage of the large spectrum of the source to produce interferograms with a propagation-invariant contrast. Such a grating has been created for hard x-ray interferometry and experimentally tested on a synchrotron beamline at Soleil.     

A new lateral shearing interferometer for precision surface measurement

A new lateral shearing interferometer is proposed for precision surface measurement. In this shearing interferometer, a novel shear generator made of a single birefringence crystal plate is utilized. The shear adjustment is realized through the change of angle at which tested wavefront is incident into the crystal plate. By changing the orientation of the principal section of the plate, the generator can adjust the shearing direction. With the incident beam being circularly polarized, the generator can equalize the intensities of two shearing beams to make a good contrast interference pattern. The interferometer is simple and compact in terms of mechanism and has a complete common optical path structure. Phase shifting can be realized conveniently. The interferometer is insensitive to external vibrations and environmental disturbances, and hence has good stability and reliability with high measurement accuracy. To examine the performance of the proposed interferometer, experimental testing was conducted. High accuracy and repeatability are demonstrated.     

Simple versatile shearing interferometer suitable for measurements on a microscopic scale

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) behave differently from massive samples. Conventional testing and inspection techniques usually fail at the microscale. Recently there has been an increasing interest in the application of optical techniques for microstructure testing, because they are high-resolution, non-contact, full-field, fast and relatively inexpensive. New interferometric systems, which are suitable for microscopic optical metrology, are of interest for engineering and industrial applications.A modified electronic speckle pattern shearing interferometer (ESPSI) with a very simple shearing device has been designed for metrology applications on the microscale. The shearing device consists of two partially reflective glass plates. The reflection coefficients of the coatings are 0.3 and 0.7, respectively. The distance and the tilt between the two glass plates control the size of the shear. A long working distance microscope objective is attached to the CCD camera to form a field of view variable over several millimetres in width. The suitability of the system for microscopic measurements is demonstrated. The capability of the system for phase shifting is also demonstrated. The results obtained are promising for future applications of the ESPSI system for testing and characterisation of MEMS.