Computer generated spatial filters for large object formats

A cheap computer generated hologram (CGH) contains 32 × 32 sampling cells, typically. When using a cheap CGH as spatial filter, the input object is also restricted to 32 × 32 sampling or resolution cells. However, practical objects are much larger. Sufficiently large filters would be too expensive in terms of computing and plotting time. We present a new method for producing CGH spatial filters. We were able to produce a 160 × 160 cell CGH filter with computing and plotting labour for only 32 × 32 sampling cells. We used that spatial filter as matched filter for pattern detection.     

Digital watermarking technique for holography interference patterns in a transform domain

A digital holography interference pattern generated by a computer calculation (computer generated hologram, CGH) is one of the most expensive contents and its usage is being expanded. Thus, it is highly necessary to protect the ownership of a digital hologram. This paper introduces a watermarking scheme, a method to protect the ownership of digital holograms using the DCT domain data as the ones to be watermarked. This scheme shows very high imperceptibility and strong robustness against the anticipated attacks. We expect that the conclusions of this paper will be a very useful basis for further work in the area of electronic watermarking schemes for the digital holograms.     

超光谱成像仪图像均匀性校正

为获得高质量新型超光谱成像仪图像,根据新型超光谱成像仪图像特点,对其图像均匀性校正进行研究。利用转台旋转模拟超光谱成像仪对地面推扫,对景物成像获得超光谱成像仪三维数据;采用太阳作为新型超光谱成像仪图像均匀性校正光源,应用相应校正系数对超光谱成像仪的数据进行处理。结果表明：所采用校正方法对新型超光谱成像仪具有很好校正效果,同时也验证了新型成像光谱仪具有较高成像质量;单像元校正时间为2×10-6s,大数据量图像校正需较长时间;利用太阳照射漫反射板作为扩展源对亮度均匀物体图像进行校正,校正均匀性小于4%。     

近红外激光照明器均匀性评价技术研究

近红外激光照明是在低照度情况下,用近红外激光作为光源对远距离目标进行主动照明.由于激光的产生机制、匀光装置和照明器采用的光学系统公差、大气湍流等因素,近红外激光光束在目标面上的光强空间分布不均匀,对成像、观测准确度产生较大影响.本文提出采用近红外激光光强功率谱衡量照明近红外激光光强分布均匀性,即采用归一化后光强功率谱所围成的面积作为衡量近红外激光照明均匀性的参量.利用这种方法,对不同的近红外激光照明器,在相同的工作状态下的照明均匀性评估参量进行了研究,结果验证了采用归一化后光强功率谱所围成的面积作为评价参量的合理性.     

Optimization of thickness and uniformity of photonic structures fabricated by interference lithography

We study the influence of the absorption of materials used for holographic fabrication of photonic structures on their uniformity along the film thickness. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a strong dependence of structure thickness and uniformity on the exposure dose of the interference pattern. A novel technique is proposed to overcome the absorption effect and to fabricate thick two- and three-dimensional structures, which are uniform throughout the film thickness. It consists of exposing once again the sample by an additional and independent counterpropagating uniform beam, which allows to compensate the diminution of the light intensity of interference pattern. These results are very useful for the fabrication of high quality polymer-based photonic crystals.     

Generating optical vortex with computer-generated hologram fabricated inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses

We introduce a novel method to generate the optical vortex with computer-generated hologram (CGH) fabricated inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses. The CGH was directly written inside glass by femtosecond laser pulses induced microexplosion without any pre- or post-treatment of the material. We also realized the restructured optical vortex beams of both the transmission and reflection pattern with high fidelity using a collimated He-Ne laser beam. The total diffractive efficiency of both the transmission and reflection pattern is about 4.79%.     

Fast generation of controllable equal-intensity four beams based on isosceles triangle multilevel phase grating realized by liquid crystal spatial light modulator

Liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LCSLM) realizing equal-intensity multiple beams often has some features, i.e., phase valley between two adjacent pixels, flyback region when phase decreases immediately from 2π to 0, and inevitable backplane curvature, which are different from those of most conventional diffractive optical elements (DOEs), such as static DOEs. For optimal intensity uniformity, equal-intensity multi-beam generation must be considered for these artifacts. We present a tunable-grating method in which the intensity uniformity can be improved by considering the LCSLM artifacts. For instance, tuning phase modulation depth of the grating, called isosceles triangle multilevel phase grating (ITMPG), can be used not only to improve the intensity uniformity, but also to fast steer four beams with narrow beamwidths, determined by the same effective aperture of ITMPG. Improved intensity uniformity and high relative diffraction efficiency are demonstrated through experiments with phase-only LCSLM.     

Supercontinuum generation in a standard fiber pumped by noise-like pulses from a figure-eight fiber laser

We report the experimental study of broadband spectrum generation in a piece of standard fiber (SMF-28) using as the pump a train of noise-like pulses, or sub-nanosecond packets of sub-ps pulses with randomly varying amplitudes. The pulses are generated by an erbium-doped figure-eight fiber laser, and present a wide (∼50 nm) optical spectrum, which represents a significant advantage to seed the generation of new frequencies. Another advantage of the pulses is their relatively large energy, as they are made up of a large number of ultrashort pulses. After amplification with an Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA), the pulses were injected in a 0.75 km length of SMF-28 fiber. We obtained experimentally at the end of the fiber an output signal spectrum extending from 1530 nm to at least 1750 nm (the upper limit of the spectrum analyzer) for pump pulses with an average power of 20.4 mW, corresponding to a few kilowatts peak power. The spectral broadening is due to Raman self-frequency shift (SFS). It is noteworthy that the spectrum of the newly created frequencies was extremely uniform over the range of measurement. Considering that the Raman shift is directly related to the pump pulse duration, spectral flatness is a direct consequence of the random distribution of amplitudes and durations of the pulses in the packet. Finally, the results show the capabilities of noise-like pulses from a fiber laser for applications in supercontinuum generation based on nonlinear phenomena such as Raman SFS.     

Generation of Uniform Plasmas for Beat Wave Experiments

The laser plasma "beat wave" mechanism for the generation of ultrahigh electric fields requires plasmas of several meters length with density uniformity of about 1 percent. Multiphoton ionization of molecular hydrogen gas at a pressure of a few torr provides a scalable mechanism for generating these plasmas using the same laser beams that drive the beat wave. We describe measurements of electron density, temperature, and uniformity of plasmas generated by a frequency doubled Neodymium glass laser, at an irradiance of about 1014 W · cm-2. The plasma density corresponds to 100-percent ionization and is measured to be uniform to within the measurement errors over a length of 8 mm.     

Transducer profile effect on the second harmonic level

The measurement of nonlinear parameter of the propagating medium using finite amplitude techniques is based on the detection of the second harmonic generated nonlinearly in the investigated medium. This method requires an analytical expression for the second harmonic. Analytical expressions have been derived for the Gaussian source. For other shapes than Gaussian, a set of Gaussian beams can be used to approximate the pressure distribution at the source. Gaussian coefficients, in the literature, are provided for a uniform source. However, the sources used in many applications radiate non-uniformly because of the manner the piezoelectric element is fixed and because of Lamb waves generated in transducer’s active element. This is of a great importance to derive an analytical expression for the second harmonic for different profile “excitation” of the transducer. Our model is based on the quasilinear theory and a set of Gaussian beams. We used the K-Prony method in order to compute the Gaussian coefficients for each of the uniform, exponential, elliptic and Bessel sources. Using the obtained Gaussian coefficients we showed that the second harmonic magnitude is varying respectively to the used source’s profile. For the measurement of the nonlinear parameter one needs to compute the appropriate values of the Gaussian parameters according to the profile of the used source. One can also use the Gaussian parameters for the uniform source with a correction.     

Dynamic generation of Debye diffraction-limited multifocal arrays for direct laser printing nanofabrication

We propose a Debye-theory-based iterative method to produce accurate phase patterns for generating highly uniform diffraction-limited multifocal arrays with a high-NA objective. It is shown that by using the Debye method, the uniformity of the diffraction-limited focal arrays can reach 99%, owing to the critical consideration of the depolarization effect associated with high-NA objectives. The generated phase patterns are implemented in fast dynamic laser printing nanofabrication for the generation of individually controlled high-quality microvoid arrays in a solid polymer material by a single exposure of a femtosecond laser beam. As a result of the high-quality multifocal arrays, functional three-dimensional photonic crystals possessing multiple stopgaps with suppression up to 80% in transmission spectra are demonstrated.     

Optimization of computer-generated holograms for dynamic optical manipulation with uniform structured light spots

An optimized iterative technique combining the merits of conventional Gerchber-Saxton (G-S) and adaptive-additive (A-A) algorithms to design multilevel computer-generated holograms for the creation of a desirable structured intensity pattern for multiple optical manipulation is theoretically adopted. Optical trap arrays are demonstrated with the help of liquid crystal spatial light modulator and a microscopic optical tweezer system. Additionally, continuous locked-in transport and deflection of microparticles with the generated optical lattice is proven experimentally. The proposed method possesses apparent high efficiency, high uniformity, and dynamic and reconfigurable advantages.     

多点分段单步校正法在接触式图像传感器扫描仪上的实现

提出了一种接触式图像传感器(CIS)扫描仪非均匀校正的新方法,能够快速高效地完成对CIS扫描仪彩色图像的非均匀校正,消除了CIS的颜色差异。采用多点分段单步法进行标定,采用现场可编程门阵列实现校正,并最终得到颜色均匀的彩色图像。对于分辨率高达1200dpi的CIS扫描仪,采集一次样板纸完成全部颜色空间的分段标定,图像传输的同时完成校正,校正过程仅耗时0.125μs。实际应用效果显示校正后R,G,B三个通道的像素误差控制在5个像素以内,相比校正前图像均匀性提升10倍左右,比传统两点法提升3倍左右,且明显改善图像颜色突变、暗淡以及随机条纹等问题。     

Frozen waves: experimental generation

Frozen waves (FWs) are very interesting particular cases of nondiffracting beams whose envelopes are static and whose longitudinal intensity patterns can be chosen a priori. We present here for the first time (that we know of) the experimental generation of FWs. The experimental realization of these FWs was obtained using a holographic setup for the optical reconstruction of computer generated holograms (CGH), based on a 4-f Fourier filtering system and a nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM), where FW CGHs were first computationally implemented, and later electronically implemented, on the LC-SLM for optical reconstruction. The experimental results are in agreement with the corresponding theoretical analytical solutions and hold excellent prospects for implementation in scientific and technological applications.     

LGP pattern design with single LED light source

We investigated optimize pattern design of a LGP for TFT-LCD with single LED. For the purpose, we introduced new concepts of pattern design most appropriate design for single light source, density adjustment design and radius adjustment design. And than compared the LGP output intensity distribution of the two cases with that of the uniform density pattern. As the result, above two types pattern design given a good result. Especially, the radius adjustment pattern design enhanced intensity uniformity definitely.     

Generation of electromagnetic waves in the terahertz frequency range by optical rectification of a Gaussian laser pulse in a plasma in presence of an externally applied static electric field

We propose a theoretical model for the generation of electromagnetic waves in the terahertz (THz) frequency range by the optical rectification of a Gaussian laser pulse in a plasma with an applied static electric field transverse to the direction of propagation. A Gaussian laser pulse can exert a transverse component of the quasi‐static ponderomotive force on the electrons at a frequency in the THz range by a suitable choice of the laser pulse width. This nonlinear force is responsible for the density oscillation. The coupling of this oscillation with the drift velocity acquired by electrons due to the applied static electric field leads to the generation of a nonlinear current density. A spatial Gaussian intensity profile of the laser beam enhances the generated THz yield by many folds as compared to a uniform spatial intensity profile.     

The influence of the discharge parameters on the plasma spatial structuring in argon DBDs

The plasma parameters, discharge plasma uniformity and filamentation processes in high pressure (near atmospheric pressure) dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) in argon are studied using the developed two-dimensional 2D(r, z) model. The applied voltage frequency, the voltage shape, the dielectric layers material and its thickness are varied and the effects of such variations on plasma uniformity, discharge structure and operation are studied. The DBD discharges with different dielectric layers thickness, dielectric constants and secondary electron emission coefficients are simulated. It was shown that the dielectric layer thickness is an important parameter for producing high pressure discharges uniform over the radius. The possibility of the radially uniform discharges at atmospheric pressure was shown in the present study.     

Efficient speckle-free laser marking using a spatial light modulator

An approach for laser marking surfaces using a liquid–crystal-based spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) for beam patterning and manipulation is presented, designed to avoid the speckle interference problem which is a typical drawback of current SLM-based laser marking processes. In our approach, the LC-SLM is used to generate complex two-dimensional micropatterns (e.g., 20 × 20 datamatrices) with overall dimensions of < 320 by 320 μm. The micropatterns are generated in a series of 16 steps, using a Fresnel zone lens (FZL) combined with a computer-generated hologram (CGH); for each step the whole kinoform (FZL + CGH) is spatially shifted off-axis by a different amount of pixels to build-up the required pattern. In comparison with other SLM-based laser marking approaches already reported in the literature, our method not only eliminates (or at least significantly reduces) unwanted speckle interference but also reduces the laser power required for marking.     

Two-dimensional radiative equilibrium of a gray medium between concentric cylinders

A method for calculating radiative equilibrium temperature and surface heat-flux distributions is developed for an absorbing-emitting medium between concentric cylinders. The cylinder walls are assumed to be gray diffuse absorbers and emitters and have arbitrary temperature distributions along their peripheries. Heat generation may take place within the medium. As a first approximation, the problem is solved for optically-thick systems by using the differential approximation. To obtain accurate results also for the optically-thin and intermediate regimes, the differential approximation is subsequently improved by a number of geometric parameters, as has been discussed in a previous paper. As examples, two cares are presented in detail: (1) a hollow cylinder with uniform internal heat generation and uniform surface temperature and (2) a hollow cylinder with a cosine temperature distribution imposed on the wall, with no internal heat generation. Comparison with some numerical results generated by Hottel's zonal method shows excellent agreement.