Abstract: The disclosure relates to a measuring apparatus, in particular a handheld measuring apparatus, for measuring a target object in a multidimensional manner, wherein the distance to individual object points of the target object is sequentially measured, in particular using a phase-measuring system, which apparatus has at least: a transmitting device for emitting optical measuring radiation towards the target object; a receiving device having a detection area for detecting optical measuring radiation returning from the target object; a scanning system for deflecting the optical measuring radiation, and an evaluation device for determining measured distance values. The detection area of the receiving device has a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel has at least one SPAD, and wherein each of the plurality of pixels is connected to the evaluation device. The disclosure also relates to a measuring device having such a measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A laser projector for chassis alignment has a laser light source emitting a laser light beam, an optical element which generates a structured laser light pattern when it is irradiated by the laser light beam, a detector which is situated in such a way that it is irradiated by a sub-area of the structured laser light pattern and generates an output signal which is correlated with the radiation, and an evaluation unit which compares the output signal generated by the detector with at least one predefined setpoint value and turns off the laser light source if it detects a significant deviation of the output signal from the setpoint value.

Abstract: A multispectral sensor which includes a complementary metal oxide semiconductor substrate having a switching circuit, at least one antenna-receiving combination device for detecting terahertz radiation, at least one additional bolometer for detecting mid-range infrared radiation, and at least one diode for detecting radiation in the visible to near-infrared range. A multispectral imaging and/or spectroscopy system, a method for detecting and/or examining life forms, objects, and materials using such a system, and the use of such a sensor and system are also described.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a measuring apparatus, in particular a handheld measuring apparatus, for measuring a target object in a multidimensional manner, wherein the distance to individual object points of the target object is sequentially measured, in particular using a phase-measuring system, which apparatus has at least: a transmitting device for emitting optical measuring radiation towards the target object; a receiving device having a detection area for detecting optical measuring radiation returning from the target object; a scanning system for deflecting the optical measuring radiation, and an evaluation device for determining measured distance values. The detection area of the receiving device has a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel has at least one SPAD, and wherein each of the plurality of pixels is connected to the evaluation device. The disclosure also relates to a measuring device having such a measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A micromechanical component is described having a component which has a moth-eye structure which covers at least a partial surface of the component. At least a portion of the partial surface, as a first contact surface, may contact a contact component of the micromechanical component on at least one second contact area of the contact component, which has a needle-shaped microstructure, the moth-eye structure of the first contact area and the needle-shaped microstructure of the second contact area being at least partially interlocked with one another. Alternatively or additionally, at least a portion of the partial surface may be at least one partial area of an outer side and/or of an exposed inner side, facing the inner space, of the component configured as a light window. Also described is an optical device having such a micromechanical component, a manufacturing method for a micromechanical component, and a manufacturing method for an optical device.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to detect skin cancer using THz radiation. A high frequency source generates a high-frequency signal. A power splitter divides the high-frequency signal between a transmission branch and a reception branch. A first frequency multiplier multiplies the frequency of the high-frequency signal. A transmission antenna emits the multiplied high-frequency signal as THz radiation. A frequency generator generates a low-frequency signal. A mixer mixes the high-frequency and low-frequency signals to generate a mixed-frequency signal. A second frequency multiplier multiplies the mixed-frequency signal. A reception antenna device receives the THz radiation and generates a THz signal. The mixing device mixes the THz signal with multiplied mixed-frequency signal to generate a measurement signal. The evaluation device evaluates the measurement signal.

Abstract: A measuring station for measuring vehicles has at least one laser source, which emits laser radiation (20) during operation, and a safety system, which includes at least one sensor, which is set up to detect objects. The safety system is configured in such a way that it switches off the laser source when at least one sensor detects an object which approaches a region in which the laser radiation emitted by the laser source has a particularly high intensity.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining the axis of rotation of a vehicle wheel in which a light pattern is projected at least onto the wheel during the rotation of the wheel and the light pattern reflected from the wheel is detected by a calibrated imaging sensor system and analyzed in an analyzer device. Accurate and robust measurement of the axis of rotation and, optionally, of the axis and wheel geometry, in particular when the vehicle is passing by, is achieved in that a 3D point cloud with respect to the wheel is determined in the analysis and a parametric surface model of the wheel is adapted thereto; normal vectors of the wheel are calculated for different rotational positions of the wheel for obtaining the axes of rotation; and the axis of rotation vector is calculated as the axis of rotation from the spatial movement of the normal vector of the wheel.

Abstract: A laser projector for chassis alignment has a laser light source emitting a laser light beam, an optical element which generates a structured laser light pattern when it is irradiated by the laser light beam, a detector which is situated in such a way that it is irradiated by a sub-area of the structured laser light pattern and generates an output signal which is correlated with the radiation, and an evaluation unit which compares the output signal generated by the detector with at least one predefined setpoint value and turns off the laser light source if it detects a significant deviation of the output signal from the setpoint value.

Abstract: A measuring instrument for determining the concentration of components in the body tissue by reflection spectroscopy is disclosed. In order, inter alia, to increase the functional reliability in the case of vibrations, the measuring instrument includes a diode laser with at least one laser diode and a waveguide structure, which has an external resonator, with a wavelength selective element, for each laser diode. In the process, the radiation generated by a laser diode is coupleable into the waveguide structure and the corresponding resonator and once again decoupleable from the resonator and the waveguide structure. Moreover, a corresponding method and a motor vehicle equipped therewith are disclosed.

Abstract: An interferometric system having an illumination arm, including a light source and an illuminating optical system, for forming an illuminating beam; an object arm, including a reference element for measuring an object having an object surface to be measured, for forming an image-rays path, the object to be measured having an object surface inaccessible to direct illumination; a reference arm including a reference element; a detector arm including a detector; and a beam splitter, the reference element having one or more mirrored zones. Consequently, component parts which have undercut surfaces in the illumination direction can be measured in a single measuring operation.

Abstract: An interferometric system which includes an illumination arm having a light source and an illumination optical system for forming an illumination beam path; an object arm having a special-purpose optical system for measuring an object for the purpose of forming an imaging beam path; a reference arm having an adjusting element and a reference element coupled thereto; a detector arm having a detector; and a beam splitter, an at least partially transparent dispersion-compensating medium being provided in the reference arm for compensating the dispersion of the optical components of the object arm, the dispersion-compensating medium being exchangeable and also being adjusted to the special-purpose optical system. This enables a universal white light interferometer platform to be provided for enabling different measuring tasks to be carried out simply by exchanging the special-purpose optical systems.

Abstract: A multispectral sensor which includes a complementary metal oxide semiconductor substrate having a switching circuit, at least one antenna-receiving combination device for detecting terahertz radiation, at least one additional bolometer for detecting mid-range infrared radiation, and at least one diode for detecting radiation in the visible to near-infrared range. A multispectral imaging and/or spectroscopy system, a method for detecting and/or examining life forms, objects, and materials using such a system, and the use of such a sensor and system are also described.

Abstract: A micromechanical component is described having a component which has a moth-eye structure which covers at least a partial surface of the component. At least a portion of the partial surface, as a first contact surface, may contact a contact component of the micromechanical component on at least one second contact area of the contact component, which has a needle-shaped microstructure, the moth-eye structure of the first contact area and the needle-shaped microstructure of the second contact area being at least partially interlocked with one another. Alternatively or additionally, at least a portion of the partial surface may be at least one partial area of an outer side and/or of an exposed inner side, facing the inner space, of the component configured as a light window. Also described is an optical device having such a micromechanical component, a manufacturing method for a micromechanical component, and a manufacturing method for an optical device.

Abstract: A terahertz radiation source is described which includes a pulsed femtosecond fiber laser, a pulse shaper, an optical amplifier and a nonlinear crystal, wherein the laser, pulse shaper, optical amplifier and nonlinear crystal are configured and/or situated in such a way that a laser pulse I, II, III, IV produced by the laser first passes through the pulse shaper, then the optical amplifier, and then the nonlinear crystal. Also described is a related imaging and/or spectroscopy system, a method for generating terahertz radiation, a method for detecting and/or examining life forms, objects, and materials using a system of this type, and a use of a source and a system of this type.

Abstract: A measuring station for measuring vehicles has at least one laser source, which emits laser radiation (20) during operation, and a safety system, which includes at least one sensor, which is set up to detect objects. The safety system is configured in such a way that it switches off the laser source when at least one sensor detects an object which approaches a region in which the laser radiation emitted by the laser source has a particularly high intensity.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining the axis of rotation of a vehicle wheel in which a light pattern is projected at least onto the wheel during the rotation of the wheel and the light pattern reflected from the wheel is detected by a calibrated imaging sensor system and analyzed in an analyzer device. Accurate and robust measurement of the axis of rotation and, optionally, of the axis and wheel geometry, in particular when the vehicle is passing by, is achieved in that a 3D point cloud with respect to the wheel is determined in the analysis and a parametric surface model of the wheel is adapted thereto; normal vectors of the wheel are calculated for different rotational positions of the wheel for obtaining the axes of rotation; and the axis of rotation vector is calculated as the axis of rotation from the spatial movement of the normal vector of the wheel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optically measuring an undercarriage and/or for dynamically testing undercarriage components of a motor vehicle (1). At least one wheel (2) and/or at least one section of the vehicle (1) is illuminated with a light pattern (15) of structured light by means of an illumination device (11), and the reflected light (4?) is received by means of an imaging sensor unit (12, 13) and evaluated in an evaluation unit (16). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method. Even in suboptimal light conditions in the surrounding environments, a robust measurement is achieved because the structured light is emitted by the illumination device in a narrow band in a specified narrow emission wavelength range, and because the light is likewise detected by means of the sensor unit (12, 13) in a receiving wavelength range corresponding to the emission wavelength range and is evaluated in the evaluation unit (16), wherein foreign light influences are removed.

Abstract: An interferometric measuring device for measuring layer thicknesses of partially transparent layers on substrates, especially of wear protection layers based on carbon, having a scanning device which scans these layers automatically in its depth direction, using which an interference plane is displaceable relative to the layer structure, having an interferometer part that has a white light interferometer and/or a wavelength-scanning interferometer. Also described is a corresponding evaluation method.

Abstract: An interferometric measuring instrument for taking optical measurements on skin structures, having a beam splitter for splitting an input beam, emitted by a light source, into an object beam and a reference beam; having an object branch via which the object beam is directed to the skin, and the object beam, scattered back from the skin structures, is returned; having a reference branch via which the reference beam is directed to a reference and returned from it; and having a detector device for picking up the recombined and interfering radiation of the back-scatted object beam and of the returned reference beam and for evaluating the intensity modulation obtained due to the interference. The following measures contribute significantly to a reliable and rapid optical measurement, e.g.