89 results about "Quasioptics" patented technology

An optical wavelength division multiplexer and de-multiplexer for single mode or multi-mode fiber optic communication systems is provided. The device includes in its preferred embodiment a prefabricated optical block having a reflective coating on its flat upper surface and a plurality of n filters carried on its flat lower surface. A molded plastic coupling module has a flat upper surface to which the optical block and filters are adhesively mounted and the coupling module also includes a lower surface having a plurality of n aspheric lenses. In the preferred embodiment, a fiber optic cable receptacle is molded to the coupling module along with a collimating lens and a beam reflector so that, when the components are assembled, the optical pathway is passively aligned and no postfabrication alignment adjusting or tuning is required.

The invention discloses a day and night dual-purpose optical observing and sighting system, which is provided with a daylight system and a low-light level night vision system, wherein the daylight system comprises a low-light level objective lens, a low-light level tube and a low-light level inverter, the low-light level night vision system comprises a daylight objective lens and a daylight inverter, the low-light level inverter and the daylight inverter image a target onto the focal plane of an eye lens by means of a cemented coincidence prism and a day-night changeover switch, a half-transparent, half-reflective film system is plated on the cemented surface of the coincidence prism, and the image of the target is reflected into the eye lens by the coincidence prism, and thereby can be observed by the human eye. Compared with the prior art, the day and night dual-purpose optical observing and sighting system has a simple structure, is reasonably designed, realizes high imaging quality, effectively enhances the human-machine ergonomics of the lens, reduces the carried burden of a user, and effectively meets the requirement of all-weather application.

The invention discloses a digital-micro-mirror-device-based fast precise optical focusing enhancement method and system. Region division is carried out on a digital micro mirror device and the digital micro mirror device is divided into two parts evenly; divided areas in the second part are kept to be unchanged and intensity modulation is carried out simultaneously on light beams at all divided areas in the first part at different frequencies, fluorescent light with changed intensities is excited after light beam focusing, and the excited fluorescent light is received and recorded by a photomultiplier; after Fourier transform on a fluorescent light signal, compensation phases corresponding to all divided areas are obtained; the divided areas in the first part are kept to be unchanged d intensity modulation is carried out simultaneously on light beams at all divided areas in the second part to obtain another halves of compensation phases; the divided areas with the phase values smaller than pai are kept and the divided areas with the phase values larger than pai are removed to obtain screened divided areas; and after the digital micro mirror device loads the screened divided areas, the light beams are focused in a sample to form a light spot with the higher central light intensity. On the basis of the optical diffraction principle, the beam focusing speed is increased and the light beam focusing capability is enhanced. A feasible focused light spot generation method can be provided for the non-fiber interpolation type optogenetics and the deep penetration microimaging.

An optical adjointing correction mode calibration method based on multi photo resist effective diffusion length comprises: measuring calibration data, using one-dimension diagram data calibration model to judge if the diagram is a one-dimension diagram or a two-dimension diagram, when it is a one-dimension diagram, using a one-dimension diagram data calibration photo resist model, and when it is a two-dimension diagram, using a two-dimension data calibration two-dimension photo resist model to judge if the sampling point simulation error is in a preset range, checking and outputting models. The invention respectively processes one-dimension diagram and two-dimension diagram, and uses the effective diffusion length according to actual diagrams, to reduce calibration error and improve calibration accuracy.

The invention relates to a method and a system for predicting surface laser damage performance of an optical element. The method comprises the steps of: selecting a standard optical element; acquiringabsorptive defect distribution characteristics of the standard optical element to obtain defect densities of different absorption levels; acquiring damage performance, wherein the damage performancecomprises damage thresholds and damage densities; determining the defect density with the highest correlation with the damage performance in the defect densities of different absorption levels of thestandard optical element by adopting a Spearman correlation analysis method, so as to obtain the defect density corresponding to each damage performance, and establishing a correlation curve between the damage performance and the corresponding defect density to serve as a standard curve; and acquiring the defect density of a to-be-detected optical element, and determining the damage performance ofthe to-be-detected optical element according to the standard curve. According to the method and the system for predicting the surface laser damage performance of the optical element, the evaluation precision of the damage performance of the optical element can be improved without damaging the optical element.

Systems, computer-readable instructions, and methods for storing products are disclosed. For example, the system may include modular shelving units that include a shelf which is placeable on a rack, the shelf including a platform, the shelf having a weight sensor below the platform, the platform is configured to support N number of holders, each of the N holders configured to store products, each shelf further having N−1 optical sensors below the N−1 holders when the N−1 holders are supported by the platform and N−1 windows above the N−1 optical sensors, the N−1 optical sensors being in proximity of the N−1 holders, respectively, wherein each holder includes an opening, wherein when a holder is on the shelf, the opening is capable of being aligned with an optical sensor, the shelf further having a processing circuit coupled to the N−1 optical sensors and the weight sensor.

A method of calibrating an optical detector includes installing a calibration system within at least one sensing volume of the optical detector, filling a chamber of the calibration system with a material to achieve a known obscuration, and measuring an obscuration of the material within the chamber.

A method of calibrating an optical detector includes affixing a calibration material to a first surface of the optical detector and calibrating one or more parameters of the optical detector using the calibration material.

In general the present disclosure is directed to a temperature control device, e.g., a TEC, that includes a top plate with at least first and second contact pads to allow for a soldering process to attach optical components to the first contact pad without causing one or more layers of the second contact pad to reflow and solidify with an uneven mounting surface. Thus, optical components such as a focus lens can be mounted to the second contact pad via, for instance, thermal epoxy. This avoids the necessity of a submount to protect the focus lens from the relatively high heat introduced during a soldering process as well as maintain the flatness of the second contact pad within tolerance so that the mounted focus lens optically aligns by virtue of its physical location/orientation with other associated optical components coupled to the first contact pad, e.g., a laser diode.

The invention discloses a quasi-optical system for terahertz beam shaping. The system comprises a flat semiconductor crystal, a super-hemispherical silicon lens and an aspheric collimating lens, wherein one surface of the super-hemisphere silicon lens is a super-hemisphere surface, and the other surface of the super-hemisphere silicon lens is a plane; the flat semiconductor crystal is fixed on theplane side of the super-hemisphere silicon lens; and the aspheric collimating lens is arranged on the super-hemisphere side of the super-hemisphere silicon lens. The flat semiconductor crystal generates collimated terahertz waves under the excitation of femtosecond laser pulses and direct-current bias voltage; and the generated terahertz waves directly enter the super-hemispherical silicon lens and the aspheric collimating lens, and parallel terahertz wave beams are output. The system can also comprise an aspheric focusing lens and a focal plane; and the parallel terahertz wave beams enter the aspheric focusing lens and reach the position of the test focal plane to generate focused terahertz waves. The influence of water vapor absorption is reduced, the system resolution is improved, theproportion of total reflection beams is reduced, the maximum transmittance reaches 72%, meanwhile, the optical path of an air optical path is reduced, and the terahertz signal quality is improved.

A method of calibrating an optical sensor may include acquiring a first characteristic for an external light source through a detector of an optical sensor while an internal light source of the optical sensor is turned off; driving the internal light source; acquiring a second characteristic for the internal light source and the external light source through the detector, based on driving the internal light source; and acquiring a reference characteristic of the internal light source, for calculation of an absorbance of an object, based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic.

The invention discloses a terahertz Luneberg lens multi-beam antenna, and relates to the field of terahertz antennae. The terahertz Luneberg lens multi-beam antenna comprises a metal branch lens and an antenna feed source, wherein the metal branch lens comprises a plurality of metal columns with different heights and diameters, and different effective dielectric constant distributions can be realized by adjusting the sizes of the metal columns, so that the dielectric constant distribution required by the Luneberg lens is discretely approached, flat plates on the upper and lower sides of the lens expand a certain field angle at the tail end to increase the directivity of the antenna, any active device is not needed, and one-dimensional beam scanning can be realized only by switching the ports. According to the quasi-optical working mode of the antenna, the direction of the antenna wave beam is only related to the position of the feed source, compared with a phased-array antenna, the antenna does not have the problems of gain reduction, sidelobe rise, grating lobe occurrence and the like during wave beam scanning, and the gain of the feed source can be increased in a wide working frequency band.

an optical sensing system comprising: a processing circuit; a first calibration optical sensor, comprising a first sensor edge and a second sensor edge opposite to the first sensor edge; and a second calibration optical sensor, away from the first calibration optical sensor for a first distance, comprising a third sensor edge and a fourth sensor edge opposite to the third sensor edge. The processing circuit determines a target object has moved for a target distance if an object pattern of the target object moves from a first location in the first calibration sensor to a second location in the second calibration sensor, wherein a first sum of a second distance which is between the first location and the first sensor edge and a third distance between the second location and the third sensor edge equals to a reference distance.