48 results about "Optical phase conjugation" patented technology

An optical system and associated method enable near real time optical phase conjugation. In the method, a translucent medium is illuminated by a sample illumination beam. Light scattered by the medium is directed to an electronic image sensor while a reference beam is also directed to the electronic image sensor. The scattered light and the reference beam form an interference pattern at the electronic image sensor. A digital representation of the interference pattern is recorded using the electronic image sensor, and the characteristics of a conjugate of the sample beam are computed from the numerical representation. A conjugate beam having the computed characteristics is generated using a configurable optical element and directed back to the translucent medium. The generation of the conjugate beam may be accomplished using a spatial light modulator.

An optical phase conjugator that can be deployed within a long-haul fiber-optic link of an optical WDM system to improve the system's tolerance to intra- and inter-channel nonlinear effects. In one embodiment, the optical phase conjugator has a digital signal processor configured to perform, in the digital electrical domain, a phase-conjugation transformation for various components of a WDM signal so that certain signal distortions imposed on that signal in the front portion of the fiber-optic link are reduced in the back portion of the link. Advantageously, the optical phase conjugator is flexibly configurable to employ an input-to-output carrier-frequency-mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions. mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional photographing process based on a laser probe array and a device utilizing the same, and belongs to the field of three-dimensional photographing and measuring. Thousands of laser probes are projected to preset space positions according to the digital optical phase conjugation principle, reflection of the laser probes on surfaces of articles is monitored by a general two-dimensional camera, and then three-dimensional coordinate measurement is realized. Meanwhile, since the laser probe array is combined with a pair of three-dimensional cameras, more three-dimensional coordinates can be acquired by means of three-dimensional reconstruction, and accurate and compact three-dimensional coordinate measurement for large sites can be realized. Accordingly, three-dimensional matching treatment accuracy of three-dimensional images in the three-dimensional reconstruction process can be improved, matching treatment time is shortened, images picked up by the three-dimensional cameras can be compensated at the post stage, error in focal length and installation of the two cameras is eliminated, and requirements for the previous stage installation and synchronization of the focal length in the actual photographing process of the three-dimensional cameras are lowered. The three-dimensional photographing process based on the laser probe array and the device utilizing the same are applicable to fields of three-dimensional films, robots, intelligent driving, quick detection for obstacles, automatic measurement for industrial parts, and the like.