4392 results about "Acousto-optics" patented technology

An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system including an interferometer provides illuminating light along a first optical path to a sample and an optical delay line and collects light from the sample along a second optical path remitted at several scattering angles to a detector. In one embodiment, illuminating light is directed along a number of incident light paths through a focusing lens to a sample. The light paths and focusing lens are related to the sample and to both the incident light source and the detector. In another embodiment, a focusing system directs light to a location in the sample. A transmission grating or acousto-optic modulator directs light from the sample at an angle representative of the wavelength of the incident light on the transmission grating or acousto-optic modulator.

Acoustic-optical therapy devices and methods for therapeutical purposes are disclosed in this invention. The devices provide a combination of ultrasound energy and optical pulsed energy exposed to human and animal body at frequencies of ultrasound and optical pulses within the range of 1 Hz to 1 GHz and at wavelengths from 0.2 micrometer to 20 micrometers. Both ultrasound energy and pulsed light radiation are delivered in effective combinations to maximize the therapy. Because of different interaction nature of ultrasound and light with body, the new invented devices will provide much more effective and specific body treatment.

A system and a method of a transparent color image display utilizing fluorescence conversion (FC) of nano-particles and molecules are disclosed. In one preferred embodiment, a color image display system consists of a light source equipped with two-dimensional scanning hardware and a FC display screen board. The FC display screen board consists of a transparent fluorescence display layer, a wavelength filtering coating, and an absorption substrate. In another preferred embodiment, two mechanisms of light excitation are utilized. One of the excitation mechanisms is up-conversion where excitation light wavelength is longer than fluorescence wavelength. The second mechanism is down-conversion where excitation wavelength is shorter than fluorescence wavelength. A host of preferred fluorescence materials for the FC screen are also disclosed. These materials fall into four categories: inorganic nanometer sized phosphors; organic molecules and dyes; semiconductor based nano particles; and organometallic molecules. These molecules or nano-particles are incorporated in the screen in such a way that allows the visible transparency of the screen. Additionally, a preferred fast light scanning system is disclosed. The preferred scanning system consists of dual-axes acousto-optic light deflector, signal processing and control circuits equipped with a close-loop image feedback to maintain position accuracy and pointing stability of the excitation beam.

A system monitors or images a portion of a sample. The system includes an optical interferometer with a measurement arm, a reference arm, and an optical splitter. The arms are coupled to receive light from the optical splitter. One of the arms includes an acousto-optical modulator. The interferometer is configured to interfere light output from the two arms. The system also includes a detector that receives the interfered light and uses the received light to determine a depth-dependent quantity characterizing a portion of the interior of the sample.

Apparatus and methods for fluorescence imaging using radiofrequency multiplexed excitation. One apparatus splits an excitation laser beam into two arms of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The light in the first beam is frequency shifted by an acousto-optic deflector, which is driven by a phase-engineered radiofrequency comb designed to minimize peak-to-average power ratio. This RF comb generates multiple deflected optical beams possessing a range of output angles and frequency shifts. The second beam is shifted in frequency using an acousto-optic frequency shifter. After combining at a second beam splitter, the two beams are focused to a line on the sample using a conventional laser scanning microscope lens system. The acousto-optic deflectors frequency-encode the simultaneous excitation of an entire row of pixels, which enables detection and de-multiplexing of fluorescence images using a single photomultiplier tube and digital phase-coherent signal recovery techniques.

The invention discloses a method and equipment for detecting the appearance quality of a product. The method can be used for comprehensively detecting the outer contour defect and surface defect of the product and the defect of the product in a working state. The equipment comprises an illumination light source, a speed detection device, an image acquisition device, a defect detection module, a not good (NG) product removing device, an NG product conveying belt, a defect alarm device, a fixing frame, an electric control box, an industrial personal computer, a display and the like. When the defect detection module detects products with unqualified appearance quality, the defect alarm device gives an acousto-optic alarm, and the NG product removing device is started to remove the unqualified products to the NG product conveying belt. By the method and the equipment, the appearance quality defect is comprehensively detected, the equipment is high in automation degree, the detection speed is high, the detection result is high in objectivity and consistency, and the production efficiency of the manufacturing industry can be effectively improved.

A sound emitting inflatable ball includes an inflatable casing, a first polar receptacle, a second polar receptacle, a sound emitting circuit, a power source and a sound emitting device. The inflatable casing forms a spherical ball, when fully inflated. An air nozzle extends from a periphery of the inflatable casing. The first polar receptacle is inserted into a periphery of the inflatable casing and the second polar receptacle is inserted into the periphery of the inflatable casing opposite the first polar receptacle. Preferably, the power source is retained in the first polar receptacle, and the shock sensor and the sound emitting device are retained in the second polar receptacle. At least two wires connect the power source to the shock sensor and the sound emitting device. A light emitting circuit and light emitting device may be suspended from the at least two wires.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio fix radars, in particular to a millimetre wave time-division linear frequency modulation multi-object detection automobile anti-collision radar. The radar of the invention adopts full phase parameter receiving / emitting benchmark signal and time-division and time-sequence asynchronous control to receive / emit a dual-purpose quasi-light integrated medium lens antenna array, and scans the objects possible to be collided on the warning road surfaces by DSP according to lane scanning wave beam; the road situation photographing combined with the vehicle speed and GPS data MCU to control time-division n-passage modulation frequency and waveform millimetre wave linear locking phase frequency modulation; emission is carried out sequentially by R / T2, a circulator, a wave beam switch and the antenna array; echo passes through the antenna array, the wave beam switch, the circulator, the R / T1, low noise high amplifier, subharmonic mixing, middle amplifier and a time-dividing circuit and multi-object signal corresponding matching filter wave and is processed and controlled by MCU at DSP; when a plurality of road barriers are encountered, the orientation, distance and relative speed are determined by DSP restriction virtual warning; three-dimensional images are displayed by a CRT; the closer the distance of the object is, the higher the resolution is; the object which is closest to the vehicle is recognised; sound and light alarm are carried out when the distance is less than safety distance; when the distance is near to the dangerous distance, the vehicle can intelligently avoid the barrier or reduce the speed or brake; the radar of the invention can make a choice according to the control reference road situation, the vehicle speed and the GPS data, thus obviously improving the driving safety of the vehicle.

Techniques for providing spectroscopic imaging integrates an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), or an interferometer, and a focal plane array detector. In operation, wavelength selectivity is provided by the AOTF or the interferometer. A focal plane array detector is used as the imaging detector in both cases. Operation within the ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions, and into the infrared spectral region, is achieved. The techniques can be used in absorption spectroscopy and emission spectroscopy. Spectroscopic images with a spectral resolution of a few nanometers and a spatial resolution of about a micron, are collected rapidly using the AOTF. Higher spectral resolution images are recorded at lower speeds using the interferometer. The AOTF technique uses entirely solid-state components and requires no moving parts. Alternatively, the interferometer technique employs either a step-scan interferometer or a continuously modulated interferometer.

Methods and systems are provided for suppressing speckle and / or diffraction artifacts in coherent structured illumination sensing systems. A coherent radiation pattern forms an interference pattern at an illumination image plane and illuminates an object. Radiation scattered or otherwise emitted by the object is detected to produce a signal, which is integrated in time. Coherent artifact suppression is attained by using a spatial modulator, such as an acousto-optic device, to vary a phase gradient at the illumination image plane during the signal integration time. Various embodiments are provided for purposes including without limitation: preserving the depth of field of the coherent illumination; using the same acousto-optic device for pattern generation and coherent artifact suppression; electronically controlling the effective spatial coherence of the illumination system; and reducing errors due to coherent artifacts in a laser-based three dimensional imaging system.

The invention relates to a stereoscopic vision based emergency treatment device and method for running vehicles, wherein the device comprises a binocular-vision image pick-up unit, an on-board bus interface, a central processing unit, a vehicle braking control system and an acousto-optic alarm circuit. The binocular-vision image pick-up unit is used for capturing an image of a road in front of a vehicle; the DSP (digital signal processor) based central processing unit is adopted for carrying out real-time quick calculation on a visual image so as to obtain a three-dimensional road scene, and compares the obtained three-dimensional road scene with a safe driving road model set up by a system so as to judge whether obstacles or dangers exist in the traveling direction of the vehicle; when adanger is found, the vehicle braking control system is started so as to reduce the speed of the vehicle and send an acousto-optic alarm to a driver; meanwhile, the central processing unit is connected with a vehicle sensor by an inter-vehicle bus so as to detect the state of the vehicle, and when the vehicle has mechanical or circuit faults, a braking system is started so as to reduce the speed of the vehicle and send an acousto-optic alarm. The device disclosed by the invention can be arranged on ordinary motor vehicles so as to avoid the occurrence of accidents or reduce the accident loss, thereby improving the driving safety performance.

A laser-based workpiece processing system includes sensors connected to a sensor controller that converts sensor signals into focused spot motion commands for actuating a beam steering device, such as a two-axis steering mirror. The sensors may include a beam position sensor for correcting errors detected in the optical path, such as thermally-induced beam wandering in response to laser or acousto-optic modulator pointing stability, or optical mount dynamics.

High speed, wide area microscopic scanning or laser positioning is accomplished with an inertia-less deflector (for example an acousto-optic or electro-optic deflector) combined with a high speed wide area microscopic scanning mechanism or laser positioner mechanism that has inertia, the motion of the inertia-less deflector specially controlled to enable a focused spot to stabilize, for example to stop and dwell or be quickly aimed. It leads to improved data acquisition from extremely small objects and higher speed operation. In the case of fluorescence reading of micro-array elements, dwelling of fluorophore-exciting radiation in a spot that is relatively large enables obtaining the most fluorescent photons per array element, per unit time, a winning criterion for reducing fluorophore saturation effects. The same inertia-less deflector performs stop and dwell scanning, edge detection and raster scans. Automated mechanism for changing laser spot size enables selection of spot size optimal for the action being performed.

The invention relates to the radio-positioning technical field, particularly a millimeter-wave marine frequency modulation multi-channel anti-collision radar, which is realized through the following steps: adopting the full-phase parameters to receive / transmit reference signals; asynchronously controlling the time division and the time sequence; watching the targets which are prone to collision on the water surface in an omni-directional manner through DSP cyclic scanning wave beams by a quasi-optical dielectric lens antenna circular array; controlling the time division SAW multi-channel passive frequency modulation through a plurality of water surface waterway cameras, an own ship speed sensor, a satellite positioning sensor GPS data MCU; sending to antenna array to transmit through an up-converter, T / R3, a frequency multiplier and a power amplifier, a circulator and T / R2; extracting the SAW multi-channel signals from the returning wave through the antenna array, a wave beam switch, T / R1, the circulator, a high amplifier, a down-converter and a medium amplifier; detecting a plurality of barrier target DSPs so as to confirm the position, the distance and the relative speed; displaying the three-dimensional image on a CRT, wherein the closer the ship gets to the target, the higher the resolution power is; controlling the false-alarm identification and tracing the nearest targets; giving an alarm when the distance is smaller than the safety distance; and intelligently avoiding the barriers or reducing if the distance is close to a risk distance, wherein the control is determined based on the actual condition of the water surface environment combined with the own ship speed and the GPS data, thereby improving the shipping safety.

A technique for suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering SBS along an optical fiber signal path utilizes polarization modulation at the transmitter to split the launched power into orthogonal polarization states. By reducing the power along each polarization, SBS will be reduced. Linewidth broadening of the optical source is achieved by introducing: (1) a incoherence between the polarization states (using a time delay along the signal path of one polarization state); and (2) a frequency shift between the polarization states (using an acousto-optic modulator along the signal path of the remaining polarization state).

In an optical waveguide device, a laser beam is collected to an end face of a channel waveguide, and introduced into a PLZT thin film optical waveguide. The incident laser beam, when emitted from the channel waveguide, diverges in the PLZT waveguide, permeates a thin film lens and is collimated into 0.4 Mm size. When a high frequency voltage is not applied to a comb Al electrode, the laser beam is collected after penetrating through the second thin film and emitted from the end face through the channel waveguide to form an emission beam. When the high frequency voltage is applied to the comb Al electrode, a diffraction grating is formed by an acousto-optic effect, and the laser beam is deflected. The deflected laser beam, when penetrating through the second thin film lens, is collected and emitted from the end face through the channel waveguide in adjacent with the above-described channel waveguide to form a deflected emission beam.

A method and apparatus for producing with a gas discharge laser an output laser beam comprising output laser light pulses, for delivery as a light source to a utilizing tool is disclosed which may comprise a beam path and a beam homogenizer in the beam path. The beam homogenizer may comprise at least one beam image inverter or spatial rotator, which may comprise a spatial coherency cell position shifter. The homogenizer may comprise a delay path which is longer than, but approximately the same delay as the temporal coherence length of the source beam. The homogenizer may comprise a pair of conjoined dove prisms having a partially reflective coating at the conjoined surfaces of each, a right triangle prism comprising a hypotenuse face facing the source beam and fully reflective adjoining side faces or an isosceles triangle prism having a face facing the source beam and fully reflective adjoining side faces or combinations of these, which may serve as a source beam multiple alternating inverted image creating mechanism. The beam path may be part of a bandwidth measuring the bandwidths of an output laser beam comprising output laser light in the range of below 500 femtometers at accuracies within tens of femtometers. The homogenizer may comprise a rotating diffuser which may be a ground glass diffuser which may also be etched. The wavemeter may also comprise a collimator in the beam path collimating the diffused light; a confocal etalon creating an output based upon the collimated light entering the confocal etalon; and a detector detecting the output of the confocal etalon and may also comprise a scanning mechanism scanning the angle of incidence of the collimated light entering the confocal etalon which may scan the collimated light across the confocal etalon or scan the etalon across the collimated light, and may comprise an acousto-optical scanner. The confocal etalon may have a free spectral range approximately equal to the E95 width of the beam being measured. The detector may comprise a photomultiplier detecting an intensity pattern of the output of the confocal etalon.

A control with display for RF wireless signal light includes a wireless remote control device and a sound-light warning device. The wireless remote control device further includes a light signal controller, a light signal switch circuit, a RF wireless signal emitter and a first battery set. The sound-light warning device further includes a RF wireless signal receiver, a light signal control circuit, a LED display, a buzzer and a second battery set. The RF wireless signal receiver receives the remote control signal from the RF wireless signal emitter. The remote control signal is treated as a turn signal or flash warning signal to be shown on the LED display and allow the buzzer producing warning sound with light.

The invention discloses a multi-frequency synchronization phase laser ranging device and a method based on dual-acousto-optic shift frequency, relates to the technical field of laser ranging, and mainly relates to a phase laser ranging technology, solving the problem that a device and a method which can achieve both of the synchronism and stability of multiple measuring tapes are in lack in the existing phase laser ranging technology. The multi-frequency synchronization phase laser ranging device based on dual-acousto-optic shift frequency comprises a dual-longitudinal-mode stable frequency He-Ne laser, a multi-measuring-tape generating unit, a bundle expanding and collimating lens set, a light path and circuit measuring unit and a control box unit. The multi-frequency synchronization phase laser ranging method based on dual-acousto-optic comprises the following concrete steps: step one, switching on the dual-longitudinal-mode stable frequency He-Ne laser; step two, taking one beam oflaser as a reference laser beam, and taking the other beam of laser as a measurement laser; step three, taking (f'+f2)-(f+f1) as the accurate measurement tape frequency, and taking a low-frequency electric signal f1-f2 as the rough measurement tape frequency; and step four, moving a measuring cone prism to the target end. The device and the method are used for phase laser ranging.

A stereoscopic visional detecting system based on the adaptive sine fringe projection is composed of computer system, 5D scanning frame, sine fringe projector based on acousto-optic deflector, electric unit, visional sensor and image acquisition unit. When multiple sine rasters are projected onto surface of object, a series of images with different phases is captured by image sensor, then sent to image acquisition unit, and finally processed by computer to obtain the phase diagram about the 3D information of object.

An apparatus for adjusting the wavelength of a laser capable of lasing at multiple wavelengths by using a single acousto-optical modulator and a pair of optical reflectors inside a laser cavity. By adjusting the frequency and amplitude of the radio-frequency source to the acousto-optical modulator, undesired wavelengths are suppressed in the laser cavity, leaving appreciable gain only at the desired wavelength.

The present invention addresses the problem of stabilizing signals in magnetic field measurement using optical pumping. In order to solve the problem, disclosed is a light source apparatus (10) that is characterized in having: a light intensity fluctuation detection circuit (130) that detects intensity fluctuation of light outputted from a laser output unit (11); and an acousto-optic modulator (121) that corrects light intensity on the basis of light intensity fluctuation detected by means of the light intensity fluctuation detection circuit (130) such that the light intensity is constant Furthermore, a magnetic field measuring apparatus of the present invention is characterized in having: one sensor unit that passes therethrough light outputted from a light source unit: and a signal control processor that eliminates the light intensity fluctuation on the basis of two lights passed through the sensor unit.

A high-speed high-isolation fiber-optic matrix switch using only one acousto-optic device with phased array transducers is disclosed. Previously disclosed fiber-optic switches either required spatially separated more than one acousto-optic devices making them complex, hard to align and expensive or could not achieve high-isolation and low-insertion loss performance. A simple structure of 2×2 fiber-optic matrix switch with one phased array transducer as disclosed here is expected to make acousto-optic based fiber-optic switches more attractive than similar MEMs based switches. Use of shared lens instead of individual lenses at the input and output fiber array is expected to further reduce complexity and cost of the acousto-optic based fiber-optic switches.

Methods and apparatus for reducing the coherence of an optical signal that is used to interrogate optical interferometric sensors are disclosed. The optical field phasor of the interrogation source is modulated in a controlled manner to produce a broadened optical source power spectrum at the output of the source unit. The output from the source unit is launched into an optical sensor network, comprising a multiple of optical pathways from its input to the detection unit, where pairs of optical pathways form sensor interferometers. A compensating interferometer with delay difference similar to the sensor delay difference may be arranged in a serially coupled manner with the optical sensor network, either before or after the network. The optical output power from the source unit may either be continuous or pulsed with a pulse duration similar to the sensor delay. The coherence modulation may be performed through direct modulation of the source or through external modulation of the light with piezoelectric ring modulator, a Lithium niobate phase or intensity modulator, or an acoustooptic modulator.

A measuring device for measuring the height of a workpiece held on a chuck table provided in a processing machine. The measuring device includes a white light source for emitting white light, an acousto-optic deflecting unit for separating the white light emitted from the white light source to produce a flux of diffracted light and for swinging the flux of the diffracted light over a predetermined angular range by applying a voltage, a pinhole mask for passing light having a part of the wavelengths of the diffracted light produced by the acousto-optic deflecting unit, and a chromatic aberration lens for focusing the light passed through the pinhole mask and for applying the focused light to the workpiece held on the chuck table.

An apparatus for enabling acousto-optic communication comprising an in-water platform comprising means for emitting an acoustic signal to an acousto-optic interaction zone, an in-air platform comprising the ability for transmitting a first optical interrogation beam, the ability for receiving a portion of the first interrogation beam and a second laser beam formed from the reflection of the first interrogation beam off of the acousto-optic interaction zone, the ability for measuring and outputting a plurality of optical interferences between the portion of the first interrogation beam and the second reflected beam, and a signal converter receiving as input the plurality of optical interferences and outputting an electrical signal representing the received acoustic telemetry signal at the interrogation point at the air-water interface.

The invention is a kind of computer network software, which is a new multi-function network supervising management method. The host computer, network device, databank, and application procedure are defined as supervising element according to different particle size, the different domain supervising elements are allocated to different network supervising management joint, and the centre realizes grade management through center supervising. The states of the network device, databank and application system can be informed to the field network maintaining person and remote network maintaining person, at the same time, it can manages many kinds of databank, and application system. The states of the network devices can be sent to relative maintaining person with acousto-optic alarming, voice music alarming, message alarming, telephone alarming, Email alarming, messenger alarming. It can realize the supervising and management to many kinds of databank and application systems.

Femtosecond pump / probe experiments using short X-Ray and optical pulses require precise synchronization between 100 meter-10 km separated lasers in a various experiments. For stabilization in the hundred femtosecond range a CW laser is amplitude modulated at 1-10 GHz, the signal retroreflected from the far end, and the relative phase used to correct the transit time with various implementations. For the sub-10 fsec range the laser frequency itself is upshifted 55 MHz with an acousto-optical modulator, retroreflected, upshifted again and phase compared at the sending end to a 110 MHz reference. Initial experiments indicate less than 1 fsec timing jitter. To lock lasers in the sub-10 fs range two single-frequency lasers separated by several teraHertz will be lock to a master modelocked fiber laser, transmit the two frequencies over fiber, and lock two comb lines of a slave laser to these frequencies, thus synchronizing the two modelocked laser envelopes.