Abstract: A coordinate measuring apparatus includes a measuring part that measures a workpiece, three or more access points that are provided at positions away from the measuring part and perform wireless communication with the measuring part using radio waves, a laser tracker that irradiates a reflection part provided in each access point with a laser beam and receives the laser beam reflected by the reflection part, and a control part that obtains a first coordinate of the each access point by the laser tracker receiving the laser beam reflected by the reflection part, obtains a second coordinate of the measuring part on the basis of the wireless communication between the access point and the measuring part, causes the measuring part to measure a third coordinate of the workpiece, and obtains a spatial coordinate of the workpiece on the basis of the first coordinate, the second coordinate, and the third coordinate.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a sensor that measures a workpiece, a multi-axis robot that moves the sensor in a three-dimensional space, a position determination part that determines i) a plurality of measurement positions that are positions along a normal direction at each of a plurality of positions to be measured on the workpiece and ii) a direction of the sensor at each of the plurality of measurement positions on the basis of at least either design data or captured image data indicating the geometry of the workpiece, a moving control part that sequentially moves the sensor to the plurality of measurement positions by controlling the robot, and a measurement control part that outputs measured data indicating a result that the sensor measured at each of the plurality of measurement positions in association with the plurality of positions to be measured.

Abstract: An apparatus for effecting spatial Fourier transform spectroscopic detection of light from a surface luminescent object with high sensitivity by use of a quadrangular common path interferometer. The apparatus includes an improvement which consists of an additional imaging optical system which converges a light beam from the specimen so as to enter the beam splitter. The additional imaging optical system is disposed so that an image position is substantially coincident with the position of the second of three mirrors in the apparatus.

Abstract: In the method of and apparatus for measuring a spectral absorption in an opaque specimen, a scattering specimen is illuminated with highly directional light of variable wavelength from a specific direction, thereby removing scattered rays as much as possible, and thus detecting the intensity of only parallel rays of a component transmitted or reflected in a specific direction (i.e., rectilinear component rays) by use of a highly directional detecting system, for example, a heterodyne light-receiving system, Michelson light-receiving system, highly directional optical system, etc. It is therefore possible to measure spectral absorption characteristics of a scattering specimen with high accuracy without picking up scattered light in other undesired directions nor other noise light. In addition, the measurement of the control is exceedingly simplified in comparison to the conventional method and thus the measurement is extremely facilitated.

Abstract: A compact, high sensitive, multi-wavelength spectral analyzer capable of simultaneously obtaining a spectral distribution of extremely weak radiation such as bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, extremely weak fluorescence caused by excitation light, Raman scattered light, etc. with an extremely high luminosity and without wavelength scanning. The spectral analyzer comprises a spectroscope and a high sensitive one- or two-dimensional photodetector. The spectroscope includes an entrance slit, a collimator lens of high luminosity disposed such that a focal point of the collimator lens is coincident with the entrance slit to convert light emerging therefrom into parallel rays, a reflection diffraction grating that diffracts the parallel rays from the collimator lens to produce spectra, and an imaging lens that focuses the parallel rays diffracted by the reflection diffraction grating on an image plane thereof to form a spectral image. The photodetector is disposed on the image plane of the imaging lens.

Abstract: The present invention provides a receptor system in which laser light from a laser source is directed onto a sample, the transmitted light from which is photomixed by a half mirror with laser light different in frequency from laser light from a local oscillator source, and the photomixed light is received by a receptor element dividing a light propagating zone into a plurality of sub-zones, said receptor element having an exit end, at which a spatial zone, which is defined between different points and in which interference occurs, is limited within a spatially resolvable minimum unit, to form a Fraunhofer diffraction image, whereby the 0 order diffraction image of the Fraunhofer diffraction image is partly or wholly detected by a photodetector, or alternatively a diffraction image at most n times as large as the 0 order spectrum is detected by the photodetector.

Abstract: A light propagation region is divided into a plurality of subregions, each subregion being limited within a minimum spatial resolution unit where an interference occurs between discrete points, and a 0-order diffraction pattern of a Fraunhofer diffraction image is detected If a convex lens and either a pinhole or an optical fiber which is disposed on a focal plane of the convex lens are employed and the diameter of the pinhole or the core diameter of the optical fiber is set to be not greater than the first dark ring of a Fraunhofer diffraction image produced by the convex lens, it is possible to take out the greater part of the energy of a plane wave component that enters the lens from a predetermined direction and remove other components from different directions, i.e., scattering component. If a plurality of optical systems of this type are bundled together, only a plane wave with a one- or two-dimensional intensity distribution can be taken out with high brightness and high resolving power.