Abstract: A method for three-dimensional (3D) image calibration for a spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, the OCT system including a scanning arrangement for laterally scanning a sample light beam across a surface of a sample, an optical detection system for detecting light reflected back from the sample to obtain an optical image of the sample, and a reference light beam, the OCT system generating axially resolved optical information from the sample as the sample light beam is scanned laterally across the sample using optical path length differences (OPLD) between the reference light beam and the sample light beam, the method including: providing a calibration sample having a substrate having laterally arranged structural elements providing optical contrast, the structural elements having at least one of known dimensions or known position values on the substrate; scanning, using a first set of scanner parameters for the scanning arrangement, the sample light beam.

Abstract: A thickness-distribution measurement device includes a light source; a light detector; and a control device. The light source irradiates a region of an object being conveyed with light, the region extending in a width direction. The light detector detects emitted light that has transmitted through the object. The control device obtains information on a distribution of a relative thickness of the object in the width direction based on a detection result in the light detector. The light detector includes an image sensor and a lens array. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in the width direction, and detects an intensity of the emitted light for each pixel. The lens array includes a plurality of lenses having an equal magnification and arranged along the width direction, and collects the emitted light and forms an image of the emitted light on the image sensor.

Abstract: A photometric process measurement arrangement and a photometric measurement method.

Abstract: A measurement jig for measuring the conditions in a device and a processing method are provided. A measurement jig having a substrate, a back-surface camera provided on a back-surface side of the substrate, and a controller configured to control the back-surface camera.

Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy device includes a first spectrometer, a second spectrometer, and a photodetector. First spectrometer disperses first Raman scattered light. Second spectrometer disperses second Raman scattered light having a shorter wavelength than first Raman scattered light. Photodetector receives first Raman scattered light and second Raman scattered light. Second spectrometer is formed from a greater number of spectral optical elements than first spectrometer.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a health condition of a component is provided. The system includes a sensor network comprising a transmitter and a plurality of receivers. Each receiver is configured to receive an electromagnetic signal from the transmitter. A communications interface module is configured to receive an output signal from the transmitter. A computing system includes one or more memory devices and one or more processors. The one or more memory devices is configured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to execute operations.

Abstract: Proposed is an image calibration slide including: a substrate; and an image calibration pattern formed on a surface of the substrate, in which the image calibration pattern is formed by immobilizing and staining a DNA strand.

Abstract: An optical scanning system for non-destructively acquiring a three-dimensional structure of an object includes an optical image processing device and an optical scanning device. The optical image processing device is configured to generate an optical beam along a first optical axis direction. The optical scanning device is configured to convert the optical beam along the first optical axis direction into an optical beam along a second optical axis direction, and scan an object to be inspected by using the optical beam along the second optical axis direction. The optical image processing device scans the object to be inspected by the optical scanning device along X-axis and Y-axis directions to acquire YZ and XZ cross section structural images at different consecutive positions, so as to reconstruct a three-dimensional structural image.

Abstract: An optical foreign matter inspection device includes a rotation stage; a laser light source; a sensor that is a charge accumulation type sensor; a detecting circuit; a light emission timing signal generating circuit configured to generate a light emission timing synchronizing signal synchronized with laser emission; a trigger signal generating circuit configured to receive a first signal (a stage encoder signal) indicating a rotation state of a sample, and generate a trigger signal synchronized with the light emission timing synchronizing signal; a number-of-emitted-pulse calculating circuit configured to receive the light emission timing synchronizing signal and the first signal, and calculate the number of pulses in each period corresponding to a position in a radial direction of the sample; and a processing system configured to measure a state of each position on a surface of the sample by using a detection signal and the number of pulses.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) chip for generating multiple SERS profiles simultaneously from one or more analytes suspected to be in a sample.

Abstract: The systems for inspecting an optical wave surface output from an optical device, the optical device comprising an output pupil, the inspection system comprising an optical measurement head and a computer for processing the images obtained from said the optical measurement head. The optical measurement head comprises: a density gradient filter, the density varying periodically in the two directions of the space, a matrix array comprising at least four identical lenses, of square form, of the same focal length and disposed symmetrically, a matrix of photodetectors, each of the four lenses forming, of the pupil, an image in the plane of this matrix. The computer for processing the images comprises computation means that make it possible to calculate the partial derivatives ? ? ? x ? ( x , y ) ? and ? ? ? ? y ? ( x , y ) of the wave surface ?(x, y) in the plane of the output pupil.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enabling improved sensitivity in low-gain regimes. Embodiments of the present disclosure use polarization pulling to separate a signal of interest (e.g., amplified probe light) from the background probe light. This enables a dramatic increase in probe power and thereby increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the measurement. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a vector subtraction technique to compensate for undesirable interference effects resulting from the finite extinction of standard polarization components (i.e. polarizing beam splitters) and polarization fluctuations. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable Brillouin sensing with improved accuracy in low-gain regimes and is particularly relevant for high-spatial resolution sensing applications.

Abstract: A thermo-optic coefficient measurement system can include a housing structure configured to retain at least a first plate sample, a second plate sample, and a third plate sample in a stacked, alternating stagger arrangement such that a gap exists between the first plate sample and the third plate sample that is the thickness of the second plate sample. The system can also include a first optical device connected to the housing to output a first laser configured to be coincident with the first plate sample and the third plate sample. The first optical device can be configured to receive a first return signal. The system can also include a second optical device connected to the housing to output a second laser configured to be coincident with the second plate sample, the second optical device can be configured to receive a second return signal.

Abstract: A stimulated Raman scattering tomography system includes means for generating a first input light beam, means for generating a second input light beam, an objective, a condenser and a detector. The first input light beam is phase-modulated while the second input light beam is amplitude-modulated. The objective is configured to direct the first and second input light beams onto a sample. The condenser is configured to collect an output light beam from the sample. The is detector configured to detect at least a portion of the output light beam corresponding to the first input light beam. The system further includes means for forming a depth-resolved image of the sample from the detected portion of the output light beam.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for critical angle reflection (CAR) imaging to quantify molecular binding kinetics on a glass surface in some embodiments. CAR is a label-free method that measures the reflectivity change near a critical angle in response to molecular binding induced refractive index changes on the sensor surface. The sensitivity and dynamic range of CAR is tunable by varying the incident angle of light, which allows for optimizing the measurement for ligands with different sizes in both biomolecular and cell-based studies.

Abstract: 34 P2418PC00 Abstract Optical diffraction tomography microscope (2) comprising an illumination system (4) configured for transmitting a sample beam through a sample observation zone, a detection 5 system (8) comprising at least one image sensor (54), and a wave collection system (6) comprising a lens (16) downstream of the sample observation zone configured for directing the sample beam towards the at least one image sensor.

Abstract: This application provides an apparatus and a method for measuring chlorine ions in concrete, and relates to the technical field of chlorine ion measurement. The apparatus includes a first optical path system, a second optical path system, a spectrometer, and a central control unit, where the first optical path system includes a femtosecond laser device, an ablative focusing lens group, and a sample; and the second optical path system includes a heating light source, a dichroic mirror, a reflecting mirror, and a heating laser focusing lens group. According to this application, the femtosecond laser device is used as an ablative light source, improving sample ablation efficiency and resolving a problem that a chlorine ion spectral line is weak. In addition, a clustering algorithm is adopted in a sampling process in this application, resolving problems such as a large quantitative error and poor repeatability caused by non-heterogeneity of the concrete.

Abstract: Provided are a fault diagnosis apparatus and method based on fluorescence multivariate correction analysis of transformer oil, relating to the field of transformer fault diagnosis technology. Thus, the problem of large volume and weight of the apparatus, high costs, and inconvenience to use caused when in the related art, a fluorescence spectrometer is directly used to acquire the fluorescence spectrum of transformer oil is solved. The monochromatic excitation light of an optimal excitation wavelength generated by a fluorescence excitation source is used to excite the transformer oil in a fluorescence excitation detection apparatus to generate fluorescence. The fluorescence excitation detection apparatus generates the fluorescence according to the input monochromatic excitation light and inputs the fluorescence to a fluorescence signal acquisition and analysis apparatus.

Abstract: A collecting system with a magnetically coupled sample mover is provided for flow cytometry and cell sorter systems. The collecting system uses magnets in a driver carriage to control the position of other magnets in a follower carriage. The driver carriage can thereby control the position of the follower carriage without physically touching the follower carriage.

Abstract: A system for open-path sensing of a property of a fluid in an environment comprises: a sensing light source; a pumping light source for outputting a pumping beam into the environment for inducing a change of light propagation characteristics of the fluid; wherein the system outputs a probing beam and a reference beam into the environment, such that the probing beam has a larger intersection with the pumping beam than the reference beam; wherein a first interferometer detects a phase shift and/or an intensity change of a received probing beam; and wherein a second interferometer detects a phase shift and/or an intensity change of a received reference beam.