剪切电子散斑平移棱镜相移方法研究

在剪切电子散斑干涉中,由于错位的二物光束同向传播,很难将二物光分开引入附加相位的方法来实现相移.平移棱镜相移法可以在二束物光不分开的情况下实现相移.本文对平移棱镜相移法进行了理论分析,证明平移棱镜可以引入稳定、线性的附加相位,给出了附加位移与附加相位之间的关系式.利用周边固定、中心加载的圆盘进行实验,给出了实验结果,证明平移棱镜相移法可以有效地从干涉条纹中定量提取位移导数信息.     

偏转平台剪切电子散斑干涉相移技术研究

在沃拉斯顿棱镜作为剪切器件的传统剪切散斑干涉术中,由于错位的二物光束同光路传播,很难通过将它们分开来引入附加相位的方法实现相移。本文提出的偏转平台法是利用平台上物体的偏转来引入附加相位的,从而可以实现剪切电子散斑干涉的相移。理论分析证明,物体的偏转可以引入稳定、线性的附加相位,并给出了物体偏转角度与附加相位之间的关系式;利用周边固定、中心加载圆盘进行了典型实验,给出了实验结果,证明偏转平台相移技术能够有效地从干涉条纹中提取位移导数信息。     

Wollaston式平行分束与对称分束偏光棱镜设计

从Wollaston棱镜结构出发,寻找到两种设计方案,即把出射面为平面改为两个平面,若两平面向里凹,能得到大分束角对称分布的o、e光;若两平面向外凸,能得到剪切差大的平行出射的o、e光。大大拓宽了Wollaston式棱镜的使用范围。     

基于Wollaston棱镜的图像复分快照式成像光谱仪设计

设计一种以Wollaston棱镜为分光元件的图像复分快照式成像光谱系统,主要包括前置望远物镜、准直镜、Wollaston棱镜组、成像镜和补偿滤光片。此类光学系统可以一次曝光获取同一目标景物在不同波长下的二维信息。光束经过Wollaston棱镜组分光,为了使不同波长对应景物不至于重叠,要求分束角度比较大,这样进入成像镜的光线入射角度相对较大,无疑增加了成像镜的设计难度。分析了基于Wollaston棱镜的图像复分快照式成像光谱仪的原理及特点,设计了一套完整的成像光谱系统。全系统结构复杂,光学系统的光阑必须匹配好。为了使得不仅单个镜头成像质量良好,而且镜组之间能够良好的衔接,将前置望远物镜设计为像方远心结构,准直镜设计为物方远心结构。全系统采用多重结构,使得16个谱段在56线对处的MTF值均接近衍射极限,点列图中RMS值基本都在艾里斑以内,系统成像质量良好。     

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.     

A displacement measurement system, utilizing a Wollaston interferometer

A dual interferometric displacement measurement system is presented where a Wollaston prism interferometer is employed in conjunction with a normal Michelson interferometer. The system operates without the use of external polarizers, apart from those associated with the Wollaston prism interferometer itself. It is shown that an optical path difference induced in the Michelson interferometer can be detected using the Wollaston prism in a normal interferometer arrangement. Further, the interference pattern produced by the Wollaston prism interferometer changes in a measurable, linear fashion as the optical path difference from the Michelson interferometer alters. A simple theoretical analysis of the system is presented and used to derive a computer model of the optical arrangement. Results from an experimental implementation of the system, using a Wollaston prism with a beam separation of 0.5 degrees and a superluminescent diode, of wavelength 825 nm, as a light source, are included and compared to the results from the computer model.     

基于正交调制的偏振光谱成像系统研究

为了同时获取目标的全偏振二维图像信息和其光谱信息,设计了一种基于正交调制的偏振光谱成像系统。该系统由光学接收模块、相位调制器、Wollaston棱镜、Savart偏光镜、检偏器以及成像模块组成。其可以将原始光信号分解成两束相互正交的偏振光,并且分别成像在CCD焦平面的上下两部分上,从而构成两幅偏振图像。两组图像的叠加可以将干涉条纹的数据相互抵消,从而获得目标的纯图像信息,两组图像的相减可以将目标灰度图像相互抵消,从而获得目标的纯干涉条纹。通过理论分析与计算得到了光强分布函数和光谱变化形式。实验在稳定的光源环境中采用高对比度目标与背景板,完成了全偏振图像的实时采集。经相位校正和切趾处理改善了干涉图像的畸变,又通过去低频滤波和阈值滤波抑制了图像中背景噪声的影响,从而实现了对目标图像的提取及偏振光谱的复原。该系统具有稳定性高、光谱分辨率可调、信噪比高、可识别能力强等特点,对在复杂背景中提取目标图像、光谱及偏振态信息具有重要意义。     

用于干涉光谱仪中的新型Wollaston 棱镜系统

提出了一种用于干涉光谱仪中的新型Wollaston棱镜系统———带反射镜的Wollaston棱镜系统。对其结构及光束在其中的传播特性进行了深入分析,并对两束光的光程差进行了计算机模拟。结果表明光程差与入射点位置的关系具有极好的线性,并且所得光程差的动态范围为同类装置的二倍。研究结果为偏振型空间调制干涉光谱仪的设计和应用提供了理论依据。     

改型Wollaston棱镜的光程差及其特性分析

简述了改型Wollaston棱镜的偏光结构和分光机理;应用波法线追迹法分析了光在棱镜中的传播规律与波矢轨迹;推导出了任意入射面内、以任意角入射时光在棱镜中的传播方向及出射点坐标;给出了改型Wollaston棱镜中o光和e光光程差的理论表达公式;采用计算机模拟,给出了光程差随入射角、入射面与棱镜主截面的夹角、棱镜结构角及波长的变化曲线,并对其变化特性进行了深入的分析. 该研究对偏光棱镜的理论研究具有普遍的指导意义,为偏振分光器件及干涉成像光谱仪的研制和应用提供了重要的理论依据和实践指导. 关键词： 改型Wollaston棱镜 波法线追迹法 光程差     

Solid-state interferometry of a pentaprism for generating cylindrical vector beam

We demonstrated the generation of a cylindrical vector laser beam using a pentaprism interferometer. The solid-state interferometer was made up of a trapezoid and right-angle prism, whose hypotenuse face was implemented with a polarization beam splitter coating that split a rotated TEM₀₁ mode beam into two orthogonal polarizations. The Ppolarized beam was reflected inside the prism twice, allowing a mode pattern without inversion; however, the Spolarized beam was reflected once resulting in mode patterns that form P-polarized beams rotated by 90°. We also held the phase shift of the two beams to zero by use of a phase shifter, thus the output of the superimposed beam was a radially polarized beam. We demonstrated the mode pattern and polarization purity of the output beam through the use of this configuration.     

Birefringent neutron prisms for spin echo scattering angle measurement

In the first decade of the 19th century, an English chemist, William Wollaston, invented an arrangement of birefringent prisms that splits a beam of light into two spatially separated beams with orthogonal polarizations. We have constructed similar devices for neutrons using triangular cross-section solenoids and employed them for Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurement (SESAME). A key difference between birefringent neutron prisms and their optical analogues is that it is hard to embed the former in a medium which has absolutely no birefringence because this implies the removal of all magnetic fields. We have overcome this problem by using the symmetry properties of the Wollaston neutron prisms and of the overall spin echo arrangement. These symmetries cause a cancellation of Larmor phase aberrations and provide robust coding of neutron scattering angles with simple equipment.     

Coherent recombination of laser beams with interferometrical phase control

A HeNe laser beam is split into four component beams which are subsequently transmitted through four polarization-preserving monomode fibres. At the end of the fibres the emerging beams are coherently recombined in pairs in two steps using inverse beamsplitter cubes. The unavoidable phase differences within each pair of beams, which are caused by temperature and pressure fluctuations in the fibre environment, are detected interferometrically at the fibre ends. Using homodyne techniques, these differences are measured and compensated for by lengthening the optical path in the individual fibres with piezo-electric stretching. With appropriate adjustment of the relative phases the emerging beams can be superimposed onto each other so as to re-form one single coherent beam.     

双棱镜改变写入Bragg波长的相位掩模技术

将一种可旋转的双棱镜引入到相位掩模技术中以改变光栅的写入Bragg波长.在该系统中,光纤光栅是由来自可旋转双棱镜所形成的波长为248 nm的紫外干涉条纹写入的,其中,相位掩模被用作 1级衍射光的分束器,通过双棱镜的旋转可改变两写入光束的交叉角.为了初始化Bragg波长的参考值,双光栅的顶角由相位掩模的 1级衍射角和双棱镜的折射率确定.因为在～100 nm范围内两光束的非对称旋转对光栅周期的改变是5×10~(-4) nm,双棱镜引入的光栅的闪耀可忽略.当Bragg波长的移位为1 nm时,棱镜最大的旋转角为～1 degree,最小的旋转角是～2.4 min.与Talbot干涉仪中平面镜的旋转角～23 s/nm相比,该相位干涉仪中棱镜的旋转精度降低了2～3个数量级.     

基于渥拉斯顿棱镜的单路实时偏振成像系统设计

针对非实时成像中动态场景偏振探测产生的虚假偏振信息问题,充分利用渥拉斯顿棱镜的分光特性,设计了一种新型实时偏振成像系统.采用像方远心望远透镜系统、准直透镜系统并设计匹配的成像镜系统,在单探测器阵列上同时获取偏振态相互垂直的两幅偏振图像.通过全系统联动设计与优化,系统的调制传递函数在截止频率处不小于0.55,全系统弥散斑均方根半径小于5.3μm,即小于探测器像元尺寸,满足成像设计要求.仿真结果证明该成像系统可有效解决传统分振幅偏振成像系统的实时性差的不足,分孔径偏振成像系统的能量利用率和分辨率低的问题以及偏振焦平面方法中光路串扰的缺陷,应用前景广阔.     

偏光分束镜分束角的不对称性研究

文中给出了渥拉斯顿棱镜分束角的不对称性,并对通过调整胶合介质层来消除可调分束角棱镜的不对称性进行了分析。     

Analysis on the laser beam pointing instability induced fringe shift and contrast dilution from different interferometers used for writing fiber Bragg grating

This paper presents an analysis on the effect of laser beam pointing instability on the fringe shift and hence the contrast dilution of superposed fringes from two beam interferometers. The interferometers analyzed are those commonly used in writing fiber Bragg grating (FBG) such as phase mask, bi-prism and phase mask based Talbot/Holographic type. The beam pointing instability is incorporated as slight change in the angle between two interfering beams. The relative immunity of different interferometers to laser beam pointing is discussed vs location of FBG writing plane from the beam splitter. The effect of the beam pointing was minimum in proximity FBG writing by phase mask. The effect, in terms of fringes contrast dilution, was worst in case of large length interferometers e.g. phase mask based-Talbot interferometer. For intermediate length prism interferometers, the effect was moderate. For a given length interferometer, the fringe shift was directly proportional to beam pointing angle and inversely proportional to fringe separation. Theoretical analysis is verified experimentally by studying the fringe instability of interference pattern formed by a bi-prism of angle 2^o with the copper vapour laser (CVL, λ = 510 nm) beams of different beam pointing instabilities.     

Sample motion-insensitive, full-range, complex, spectral-domain optical-coherence tomography

We present a full-range, complex, spectral-domain optical-coherence-tomography (SD-OCT) system that is based on a double-beam scanning approach. The sample beams of two identical SD-OCT setups are combined collinearly by a bulk optic beam splitter before illuminating the object. The required phase shift for the complex signal reconstruction comes from the phase difference between both interferometers. Because of the double-beam scanning approach, our system is completely insensitive to sample motion. To demonstrate the performance of our setup, we present images of the human optic nerve head in vivo and of a human tooth.     

新型干涉高光谱成像系统的光束剪切特性分析

提出了一种基于新型双折射横向剪切分束器的高光谱成像方法,采用的横向剪切分束器主要由Wollaston棱镜和角锥反射体组成.在分析双折射分束器的偏光结构和分光机理的基础上,利用光线追迹方法分析了光束在Wollaston棱镜中的传播特性,通过计算光束在双折射分束器中的传播方向及出射位置,推导出调制光程差的理论表达公式.根据理论推导结果,分别仿真分析了系统在不同扫描模式下光程差与入射光视场角以及角锥顶点偏移量的调制关系.基于理论分析结果搭建了实验装置,对光程差分析结果进行验证,实验结果与理论分析结果匹配较好.所提方法可以提高剪切光束的平行性,保证干涉条纹的高调制度,降低了复原光谱准确度对光学装调精度和元件加工精度的依赖性,具有结构稳定、复杂度低的显著特点.     

Compulsorily Phase Locked Interferometer Using Orthogonally Polarized Light Source of a Modulated LD with High Extinction Ratio

This paper describes a compulsorily phase locked differential interferometer using an orthogonally polarized light source of a modulated LD with high extinction ratio to reduce non-linearity of the interferometer caused by polarization cross-talk. The current modulated LD is used as a light source to make the interferometer compact and for the scanning phase of the interferometer. The interferometer is operated compulsorily at the maximum inclination point of the fringe intensity curve by fringe scanning and an electric system. A Wollaston prism of high extinction ratio (50 dB) is used to combine the polarizing beams and to make the polarization cross-talk very small. In one light source the polarized output beams are on the same propagation axis; in the other they have a small crossing angle (2.5 mrad ∼ 10 mrad) to completely exclude non-linearity of the interferometer causded by polarization cross-talk. Using jets of a gas mixture of nitrogen and ethylene, this interferometer was demonstrated to be useful in detecting the photothermal effect of a photothermal velocimeter under phase fluctuation in a turbulent flow.     

Sequential hologram interferometry with diffusely illuminated objects

Two simple holographic multiplexing techniques for sequential hologram interferometry of a diffusely illuminated object are described. These techniques enable one to use the frozen-fringe hologram interferometry to study a quasi-continuous change in the object and so regain some of the advantages of real-time hologram interferometry. In the first method of multiplexing with a single reference beam, a small angle prism is used for varying the direction of the reference beam between successive exposures and a double-exposure hologram is recorded at each position of the prism. In the second method of multiplexing with multiple reference beams, a separate reference beam is used for recording each state of the object independently and the interference pattern between any two states is obtained by simultaneous reconstruction of two light fields. The advantage of this method over the previous one is that it is also suitable for dynamic studies. Some reconstructed interferograms of a diffusely illuminated transparent object under different stresses are presented as illustrations.