657 results about "Optical table" patented technology

A frequency swept laser source for TEFD-OCT imaging includes an integrated clock subsystem on the optical bench with the laser source. The clock subsystem generates frequency clock signals as the optical signal is tuned over the scan band. Preferably the laser source further includes a cavity extender in its optical cavity between a tunable filter and gain medium to increase an optical distance between the tunable filter and the gain medium in order to control the location of laser intensity pattern noise. The laser also include a fiber stub that allows for control over the cavity length while also controlling birefringence in the cavity.

A compact mid-IR laser device utilizes an external cavity to tune the laser. The external cavity may employ a Littrow or Littman cavity arrangement. In the Littrow cavity arrangement, a filter, such as a grating, is rotated to provide wavelength gain medium selectivity. In the Littman cavity arrangement, a reflector is rotated to provide tuning. A quantum cascade laser gain medium provides mid-IR frequencies suitable for use in molecular detection by signature absorption spectra. The compact nature of the device is obtained owing to an efficient heat transfer structure, the use of a small diameter aspheric lens for both the output lens and the external cavity lens and a monolithic assembly structure to hold the optical elements in a fixed position relative to one another. The compact housing size may be approximately 20 cm×20 cm×20 cm or less. Efficient heat transfer is achieved using a thermoelectric cooler TEC combined with a high thermal conductivity heat spreader onto which the quantum cascade laser gain medium is thermally coupled. The heat spreader not only serves to dissipate heat and conduct same to the TEC, but also serves as an optical platform to secure the optical elements within the housing in a fixed relationship relative on one another. The small diameter aspheric output and external cavity lens each may have a diameter of 10 mm or less and each lens is positioned to provided a collimated beam output from the quantum cascade laser gain medium. The housing is hermetically sealed to provide a rugged, light weight portable MIR laser source.

Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated sensors are provided. The sensor comprises a disposable fluid conduit or reactor bag and a reusable sensor assembly. An optical bench or inset optical component is integrated within the disposable fluid conduit or bioreactor bag, which provides an optical light path through the conduit or bag. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the disposable fluid conduit or bag and on the reusable sensor assembly. Methods for calibrating the sensor and for determining a target property of an unknown fluid are also disclosed. The devices, systems and methods relating to the sensor are suitable for and can be outfitted for turbidity sensing.

An opto-electronic hybrid integrated circuit of the present invention satisfy a low-loss optical waveguide function, an optical bench function and a high-frequency electrical wiring function. The circuit includes a substrate such as a silicon substrate, a dielectric optical waveguide part arranged in a recess of the substrate, and an optical device mounting part formed on a protrusion of the substrate. An electrical wiring part is disposed on the dielectric layer. The optical device is mounted on the substrate. An optical sub-module includes the optical device which is possible to mount on the substrate.

Provided is a measuring device and a calibration method for optical lens distortion. The measuring device comprises a single star light simulator, an adjusting rack, a to-be-tested lens, a CCD (charge coupled device) camera, a one-dimensional air flotation turntable, an angle encoder, a computer and an optical platform. The calibration method includes the steps of using a centroid localization algorithm to determine centroid position coordinates of a star point image when the to-be-tested lens is under different fields of view, establishing a calibration model for the to-be-tested lens distortion based on the distribution of the centroid position coordinates of the star point image under the entire field of view, and realizing the calibration of the distorted to-be-tested lens. The measuring device and the calibration method for the optical lens distortion has the advantages that the device is simple; the method is convenient; measurement accuracy is high; and the optical lens distortion can be easily measured and calibrated.

An atomic clock having a physics package that includes a vacuum chamber cavity that holds atoms of Rb-87 under high vacuum conditions, an optical bench having a single laser light source, a local oscillator, a plurality of magnetic field coils, an antenna, at least one photo-detector and integrated control electronics. The single laser light source has a fold-retro-reflected design to create three retro-reflected optical beams that cross at 90° angles relative to one another in the vacuum chamber cavity. This design allows the single laser light source to make the required six trapping beams needed to trap and cool the atoms of Rb-87. The foregoing design makes possible atomic clocks having reduced size and power consumption and capable of maintaining an ultra-high vacuum without active pumping.

This invention discloses a sort of measuring benchmark conversion method of the astronomical sensing device. The lamp-house simulator, the three-axes rotating floor and the photoelectric autocollimator shelves are fixed in the optical table, the astronomical sensing device is fixed in the inner frame of the three-axes rotating floor. A. Adjust the photoelectric autocollimator shelf and make the light axis to parallel with the inner frame of the rotating shaft. B. The middle frame and the outer frame of the rotational rotating floor obtain the data of the fixed point in different angle, and demarcate the inner parameter and outer parameter of the astronomical sensing device. Ensure the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the rotating floor to the coordinate of the astronomical sensing device. C. Measure the vector relation between the vertical vector of the two reflecting surface of the mirror cube and the light axes of the photoelectric autocollimator. Compute the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the rotating floor to the coordinate of the mirror cube. D. Compute the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the astronomical sensing device to the coordinate of the mirror cube. The product between the ray vectors of the astronomical sensing device and the conversion matrix is the vector direction after conversion. This invention discloses a sort of set which can realize the above method at the same time. The realization of this invention is simple and its precision is high.

The invention discloses a vacuum high/low temperature environmental simulation electromechanical transmission mechanism comprehensive performance experimental system, which comprises an experimental platform, a driving assembly, a vacuum high/low temperature experimental assembly, a normal temperature and normal pressure experimental assembly and a loading assembly. The driving assembly comprises a servo motor, an input end torque and speed sensor and an input end angle encoder; the vacuum high/low temperature experimental assembly comprises vacuum high/low temperature environmental simulation equipment, an optical platform, and input and output end magnetic fluid sealing shafts; and the loading assembly comprises an output end angle encoder, an output end torque and speed sensor and a torque motor. The vacuum high/low temperature environmental simulation equipment has low cost, the installation of the driving assembly and the loading assembly is performed outside a vacuum tank, and the installation and debugging are convenient. Due to the adoption of a modular design, the experimental system can test the comprehensive performance of a speed reducer and other rotating mechanisms under the conditions of space environment and normal temperature and normal pressure environment on the same experimental system, and has the advantages of strong adaptability of the equipment and high detection accuracy.

A head assembly comprises a slider including a transducer and a coupler for coupling electromagnetic radiation into the transducer, and an optical bench positioned adjacent to the slider, the optical bench including a mirror and a lens for directing electromagnetic radiation onto the mirror, wherein electromagnetic radiation passing through the lens is reflected by the mirror and focused onto the coupler. A microactuator can be included to move at least a portion of the optical bench. Disc drives that include the head assembly and a method of making the head assembly are also included.

An optical transmitter includes an optical bench in one embodiment. A window frame is mounted to a mounting block having a groove to form the optical bench. Optic and electro-optic components of the optical transmitter are mounted to the optical bench. The window frame includes a plurality of openings for mounting one or more ball lenses, an optical isolator, and a semiconductor laser. The semiconductor laser chip is used to generate light signals for optical communication over an optical fiber. The one or more ball lenses may be mounted into ball lens openings of the window frame and extend into the groove of the mounting block. One of the ball lenses maybe used to focus light signals between an optical fiber and the optical transmitter. Another one of the ball lenses may be used to collimate the light output from the semiconductor laser. In another embodiment, an optical receiver includes the optical bench. In yet another embodiment, an optical transceiver includes the optical bench.

The invention relates to a libration simulator for a space laser communicating platform and is provided with a laser emission unit (6), an optical power adjusting unit (7), a beam servounit (8), a beam extending unit (9), a communicating optical transmitter and receiver (10) for the tested laser, a beam servo drive unit (11), a DA transfer card (12), a power spectrum generating unit (13) and an optical table (14). The invention can simulate on low frequency agitation and high frequency libration and can effectively inspect and verify the APT tracing precision of a space laser communicating system. A simulative bandwidth can reach to 100Hz, the maximum simulative extent of low frequency can reach to 20mrad, and the controlling precision of high frequency extent can reach to Mu rad magnitude. The invention has broader dynamic range, can librate randomly according to the wide spectrum of a power spectrum simulative platform, can also simulate the movement of a relative angle and sinusoidal excitation, and can detect on the dynamic lag error of the APT system, realize two-dimensional libration simulation, realize optical power adjusting and big caliber parallel beam emission and meet the test requirement for the tracing precision of the space laser communicating APT.

The invention relates to a new device used for scribing and pointing of a thin film solar cell. The device comprises a laser, a support pedestal, an automatic focusing control subsystem, an automatic photographing positioning subsystem, an optical platform, an industrial control computer, a power supply and a dynamic galvanometric scanning subsystem. The device is characterized in that a feeding mechanism is arranged on the optical platform, wherein, the support pedestal, the automatic focusing control subsystem and the automatic photographing positioning subsystem are arranged on one side surface of the optical platform. An X-Y-axis galvanometric scanning unit, a Z-axis front focusing unit and the laser are arranged in a beam of the support pedestal. The industrial control computer is respectively connected with the laser, the X-Y-axis galvanometric scanning unit, the Z-axis front focusing unit and the power supply by cables. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, standard process, low production cost, easy mass production, wide scanning range, small focusing spot, good consistency, automatic and accurate positioning, high working efficiency, and the like, thereby being capable of being widely applied in scribing, pointing and other production fields of amorphous silicon solar cells.

The invention relates to a method and a device of measuring material thermal shock property, which belongs to the technical field of engineering materials, structural deformation and mechanics experiment. The measuring device comprises an air cushion precision optical platform, a temperature controlled switch, a PID temperature controller, an infrared radiation thermometer, an LED lamp bracket, anLED lamp, an A-frame, a lens, a high speed camera, a computer, a test piece, a thermoelectric pair, alumina ceramics, asbestos wire gauze, a heating furnace, a thermal insulation shield, a burette and a stand. The invention combines heating equipment and an optical photographic apparatus, masterly utilizes a digital image cross-correlation method and provides the method and the device of measuring material thermal shock property. The invention has novel train of thought, compact structure and complete system, and can realize quantitative analysis and measurement on the material thermal shockproperty.

The invention provides an adjusting and correcting method of a light path of a photoelectric system tracking-pointing precision measuring device. The measuring device is mainly composed of an opticalplatform, a laser light source, ground glass, a small-hole diaphragm, a beam splitter, a parallel light pipe collimating mirror, a high-frame-frequency CCD camera and the like, wherein the laser lightsource, the ground glass, the small-hole diaphragm, the beam splitter, the parallel light pipe collimating mirror, the high-frame-frequency CCD camera and the like are installed on the optical platform. By the adoption of a plane mirror, an optical autocollimation, a pentaprism and a theodolite, the positions of the laser light source, the small hole diaphragm and the high-frame-frequency CCD camera of the photoelectric system tracking-pointing precision measuring device are adjusted and corrected, the adjusting and correcting method has the advantages of being high in precision, easy to operate, convenient and visual, the problem of adjusting and correcting the light path of the photoelectric system tracking-pointing precision measuring device is solved, and not only is technological guarantee provided for the development of a space laser communication tracking-pointing technology, but also a reference basis is provided for designing a space laser communication system tracking-pointing precision measuring device.

The invention relates to a multichannel low-stray-light spectrograph based on an area array detector, belonging to the field of spectral analysis instruments. The spectrograph comprises an optical platform and a light signal acquisition device, and is characterized in that the area array detector serves as the optical platform; a plurality of band-rejection filters are processed and formed along the spectrum distribution direction on the window of one channel by using an imaging film-coating method; the condition of the change of the stray light received by each area of the detector is measured in real time; and by using the channel as a reference channel, the stray light of the whole spectral analysis instrument is efficiently corrected in real time. By using the spectrograph provided by the invention, the measured stray light in a full-wave band scope of a spectral analysis system is efficiently corrected. The multichannel low-stray-light spectrograph can be applied to measuring various photo-chromic parameters, such as spectrum characteristics, absorbance value, and the like of a to-be-measured sample.

A compact mid-IR laser device utilizes a quantum cascade laser to provide mid-IR frequencies suitable for use in molecular detection by signature absorption spectra. The compact nature of the device is obtained owing to an efficient heat transfer structure, the use of a small diameter aspheric lens and a monolithic assembly structure to hold the optical elements in a fixed position relative to one another. The compact housing size may be approximately 20 cm×20 cm×20 cm or less. Efficient heat transfer is achieved using a thermoelectric cooler TEC combined with a high thermal conductivity heat spreader onto which the quantum cascade laser is thermally coupled. The heat spreader not only serves to dissipate heat and conduct same to the TEC, but also serves as an optical platform to secure the optical elements within the housing in a fixed relationship relative on one another. A small diameter aspheric lens may have a diameter of 10 mm or less and is positioned to provided a collimated beam output from the quantum cascade laser. The housing is hermetically sealed to provide a rugged, light weight portable MIR laser source.

The invention relates with an optical bench for optoelectronic packages comprising a rigid insulating substrate, the substrate having a top surface along which it is defined an optical axis, the substrate comprising: a device region for mounting at least an optoelectronic device in alignment with the optical axis, and a fixing region adjacent to the device region for affixing at least an optical component in alignment with the optical axis. The substrate further comprises a third region provided with metallised tracks, the third region extending over the substrate top surface along at least part of one side of the fixing region in a direction substantially parallel to the optical axis. The invention also relates with an optical bench comprising: a single baseplate having a device region and a fixing region; a welding platform mounted directly on said fixing region; a heat sink mounted directly on said device region; and an optoelectronic device directly mounted on said heat sink.

A photonic buoy including a lengthy hull with a ballast portion which resides below the waterline and a top portion which is disposed above the waterline; an optical bench at the top portion of the hull configured to provide a panoramic view of the horizon; and a transmission cable extending from the optical bench for transmitting video signals to a remote location.