Common-path interferometry with one-dimensional periodic filters

We discuss a spatial filtering interferometry setup that employs a periodic spatial filter with either cosine transmittance or binary phase modulation. The setup's input plane is formed by two separate windows, one of which supports a phase object and the other, a reference beam. Using the appropriate frequency and orientation of the filter produces an interference pattern of the two input fields at the output plane of the system. The main attributes and advantages of the setup are discussed and experimentally illustrated with the example of a binary phase periodic filter implemented with a spatial light modulator.     

Effect of laser source nonlinearity on optical heterodyne interferometry

In this paper, an optical heterodyne interferometric detection model with a frequency-ramped laser diode (LD) has been analyzed. The effect of the nonlinearity of the LD source on the optical heterodyne interferometry has been investigated in two different ways, which are the power-distortion Fourier series analysis and the harmonic distortion analysis. The general formulation between the tangent of the tested phase and the interference fringe have been presented with the analysis of the beat signal in the frequency domain by each methodology. The numerical results of these formulations have been presented.     

Dynamic two-frequency interferometry for small displacement measurements

Two-frequency interferometry for small displacement measurements is examined from a practical point of view. A laser beam that is modulated sinusoidally in intensity by an acousto-optic Bragg cell provides signal and reference optical waves to produce dynamic interference. The output signal of a photodetector receiving the interference is composed of optical homodyne and heterodyne components. The heterodyne component carries a vibrational displacement to be detected on its amplitude. A sinusoidal vibration amplitude is measured down to 0.5 nm.     

Measuring the displacement vector by holographic interferometry

Triple exposure holographic interferometry provides knowledge of the displacement vector. Between the first two exposures the object is displaced by a calibrated amount, and before the last exposure it is translated by an unknown amount.     

Universal optical amplification without nonlinearity

We propose and experimentally realize a new scheme for universal phase-insensitive optical amplification. The presented scheme relies only on linear optics and homodyne detection, thus circumventing the need for nonlinear interaction between a pump field and the signal field. The amplifier demonstrates near optimal quantum noise limited performance for a wide range of amplification factors.     

CCD非线性效应对剪切干涉法波前检测的影响

利用径向剪切干涉法检测高功率激光波前时,由于探测器CCD非线性效应,在频谱中引入了除基频外的二级、三级等高次频谱分量,增加了频谱混叠的可能,使得对有用信息提取困难,降低了波前检测精度。从理论上分析了CCD非线性效应产生高次频谱分量和导致频谱混叠的原因,给出非线性条件下避免频谱混叠的条件,提出了通过提高空间载频的方法来减小或消除CCD非线性效应导致的频谱混叠。计算机模拟和实验结果表明,该方法能够有效抑制频谱混叠并显著提高波前检测精度。     

CCD非线性效应对剪切干涉法波前检测的影响

利用径向剪切干涉法检测高功率激光波前时,由于探测器CCD非线性效应,在频谱中引入了除基频外的二级、三级等高次频谱分量,增加了频谱混叠的可能,使得对有用信息提取困难,降低了波前检测精度。从理论上分析了CCD非线性效应产生高次频谱分量和导致频谱混叠的原因,给出非线性条件下避免频谱混叠的条件,提出了通过提高空间载频的方法来减小或消除CCD非线性效应导致的频谱混叠。计算机模拟和实验结果表明,该方法能够有效抑制频谱混叠并显著提高波前检测精度。     

Contours of equal in-plane displacement in holographic interferometry

By using twin apertures in the hologram plane contours of equal in-plane displacement can be obtained from a double exposure hologram. This makes the analysis of three-dimensional deformations of diffusely reflecting objects possible. Some of the possibilities of the method are discussed and a preliminary experiment is described.     

Determination of displacement derivative in digital holographic interferometry

Digital holography (DH) and digital shearography (DS) both play an important role in non-destructive evaluation. In this paper, a novel method based on digital holographic interferometry (DHI) and complex phasor (CP) is proposed to determine displacement derivative. An algorithm is employed to filter the imaginary and real parts of complex values without the need of direct phase manipulation. Two-dimensional short time Fourier transform (STFT) is employed subsequently to process wrapped phase maps. An experiment is conducted to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.     

Quadrature demodulation technique for self-mixing interferometry displacement sensor

A new, to the best of our knowledge, signal processing method based on quadrature demodulation technique is presented for laser diode self-mixing interferometry(LDSMI) displacement sensor. Phase modulation of the laser beam is obtained by an electro-optic modulator (EOM) in the external cavity. Detection of the target's displacement can be easily achieved by sampling the interference signal at those times which satisfied certain conditions. The major advantage of the technique is that it does not involve any complicated calculation and insensitive to the sampling error. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the displacement measurement resolution of the laser diode self-mixing displacement sensor to a few nanometers.     

Fiber-coupled microsphere laser

We demonstrate a 1.5-microm - wavelength fiber laser formed by placement of glass microsphere resonators along a fiber taper. The fiber taper serves the dual purpose of transporting optical pump power into the spheres and extracting the resulting laser emission. A highly doped erbium:ytterbium phosphate glass was used to form microsphere resonant cavities with large gain at 1.5microm . Laser threshold pump powers of 60muW and fiber-coupled output powers as high as 3 muW with single-mode operation were obtained. A bisphere laser system consisting of two microspheres attached to a single fiber taper is also demonstrated.     

Time-average hologram interferometry of periodic,non-cosinusoidal vibrations

In the present paper, the method of time-average hologram interferometry has been applied to study periodic, non-cosinusoidal vibrations represented by a Jacobian elliptic function. For such vibrations the characteristic fringe function has been evaluated by making use of an equation derived from considerations of the effect of motion on coherence. Techniques of holographic addition and subtraction and extended pulse stroboscopic holography have been applied to analyze these vibrations in detail. Graphical representation of the fringe irradiance distributions in the reconstructed image is given in all the cases.     

Reflection type heterodyne grating interferometry for in-plane displacement measurement

A novel method is presented for one-dimensional (1-D) and two-dimensional (2-D) in-plane displacements measurement that is based on the heterodyne grating interferometry. The novel setup of the optical configuration reduces the airstreams disturbance and maintains the environmental vibration at minimum level, allowing high stability and low measurement error to be achieved. Resulting from the theoretical calculation, our method can be sensitive to the sub-picometer level. With highly controlled isolation system, the low frequency noise can be reduced to minimum level, and only high frequency noises are considered, our method can achieve the resolution about 0.5 nm within 250 μm displacement. In addition, 2-D in-plane displacement measurement can be accomplished with a single interferometer simultaneously.     

Propagation of solitons in thermal media with periodic nonlinearity

We address the existence and properties of solitons in layered thermal media made of alternating focusing and defocusing layers. Such structures support robust bright solitons even if the averaged nonlinearity is defocusing. We show that nonoscillating solitons may form in any of the focusing domains, even in those located close to the sample edge, in contrast to uniform thermal media, where light beams always oscillate when not launched exactly on the sample center. Stable multipole solitons may include more than four spots in layered media.     

横向剪切干涉中剪切量的选取及分析

横向剪切干涉技术是一种直接测量波面相位分布的光学测量方法,由于其不需要高精度的参考平面,并且能够测量偏离量较大的表面面形偏差,因此得到了更为广泛的应用。但是,通常情况下剪切量大小的选择凭工作经验来确定。为了给出一种定量的剪切量判定方法,论文提出了一种基于Zernike多项式拟合的剪切量判定方法,通过计算机仿真和实验给出了剪切量与测量误差的关系,发现剪切量为测量口径1/10时即可达到良好的测量结果。     

Fiber-coupled multiplexed confocal microscope

We describe a new parallel scanning mechanism for confocal microscopy that is inherently fiber-optic compatible and that retains the simplicity of the line scanning confocal microscope. The method works by employing an incoherent fiber-optic bundle that maps a line illumination pattern back on itself on double passing, while separating the fibers that carry photons from out-of-focus sample planes. The transformation permits efficient rejection of out-of-focus photons by a slit aperture.     

Polarimetric interferometer for measuring nonlinearity error of heterodyne interferometric displacement system

This letter presents a polarimetric interferometer(PI) that can measure the ellipsometric parameter θ with an accuracy of 0.01 leading to a potential accuracy of 17 pm.The PI is constructed and compared with a commercial heterodyne interferometer(HI).Given its low nonlinearity,the PI is used to measure the residual nonlinearity of a heterodyne interferometric displacement system.A rotating half-wave plate is used to compensate for a part of the nonlinearity error caused by the misalignment of the axis between input polarizing states and beamsplitter.     

光纤传输激光驱动飞片实验研究

构建了一种基于光纤传输高功率激光的飞片发射系统,并测试了飞片速度.飞片膜层为三明治结构:铝烧蚀层、氧化铝隔离层和铝飞片产生层.飞片膜层采用磁控溅射技术沉积在玻璃衬底上,总厚度为5.5 μm.激光辐照铝膜层产生高温高压等离子体,驱动剩余膜层产生高速飞片,速度达数km/s.同时,实验研究了光纤传能系统的输出激光空间分布特性和传输激光能量容量,它们决定了飞片的平面性和最大速度.光纤端面损伤是限制光纤传输激光能量容量的关键因素,光纤端面通过精密机械抛光和激光预处理可以获得理想的抗激光损伤能力.采用基于光纤阵列探针的时间序列测试技术获得了飞片的平均速度,并评估了飞片的平面性.采用搭建的基于光纤传输高功率激光的飞片发射系统获得了速度达1.7 km/s、直径接近1 mm的高速飞片. 关键词： 激光驱动飞片 激光辐照 光纤阵列探针 激光等离子体     

三维时域散斑动态干涉测量系统的集成化设计

三维电子散斑干涉技术（3D ESPI）具有非接触、高精度、高灵敏度和全场测量等优点,被广泛应用于许多领域。为了实现非接触动态全场三维测量,设计并建立了一个紧凑、完备的三维测量系统。用一个多波长光纤耦合激光器代替3个独立光源,产生的离面、面内散斑干涉图仅用一台彩色CCD相机就能捕捉和处理;整个测量系统采用笼式结构,具有高度的灵活性和稳定性;对基于小波变换的相位展开算法进行了编程,实现了被测物体三维位移信息的完整提取。实验证明该测量系统可以实时获取被测物体的三维位移,在测量实验中,获得的三维位移值17.68 μm、36.23 μm、13.85 μm,相比于实际位移值18.1 μm、36.4 μm、14.0 μm它们的绝对误差分别为0.42 μm、0.17 μm、0.15 μm,相对误差分别为2.3%、0.5%、1.1%。