Off-axis reflective zoom imaging optical system has a wide range of applications in the field of photoelectric detection because of its advantages of chromatic aberration-free, broad-spectrum imaging. The existing off-axis reflective zoom imaging optical system has a fixed pupil diameter, and as the focal length becomes larger, the relative aperture becomes smaller, resulting in a lower signal-to-noise ratio and weaker detection capability. Additionally, aberration correction is vitally important in the off-axis reflective zoom system with large relative aperture. An attempt to improve the performance of an off-axis reflective zoom imaging system with large relative aperture using freeform surface is reported. The F number is 4, and the zoom ratio is 3. The optical design with freeform surfaces shows marked improvements compared with the design with higher order aspheric surfaces.
In order to solve the serious problem of ordinary biological microscopic objective lenses including field distortion, chromatic aberration and low resolving power, a high-resolution infinite conjugate microscopic objective with three fourth-order Zernike polynomial surfaces has been presented in this paper. The numerical aperture of microscopic system is 1.1 with 2.6mm focal length, which can be equipped with most field lens. The design and analysis results show that the par focal distance of the objective lens is 45mm, and the incidence angle and refraction angle of the optical surface of the lens are less than 60°, which meets the international standard of the microscopic objective lens. The optical Modulate Transfer Function (MTF) curve is close to the theoretical diffraction limit and the RMS wavefront error of the high-performance microscopic objective satisfied Marechal criterion. In addition, the tolerance analysis results show that the system can be processed based on the existing machining methods, despite the wavefront aberration RMS will deteriorate to 0.25λ. The whole system can be used in genetic testing research and mirror test, which is expected to promote the development of medical testing and industrial test and become one of new generation of diagnostic tools.
The optical system will always be different from the design value after been processed. It is necessary to adjust the relative positions between the optical elements to improve the imaging quality of the system. However, if the elements are adjusted randomly, the alignment will be inefficient, so the computer-aided alignment method came into being. In this article, for the alignment of large aberration systems, a new fully-connected network computer-aided alignment (Fc-Net CAA) method is proposed. The systems’ wavefront errors (WFEs) are described by the Zernike polynomials which have a huge advantage in describing system aberrations and we proposed a Fc-Net model for predicting systems’ misalignment. The Fc-Net model is trained with the WFEs of thousands of randomly misaligned instances of the lens system that are modeled in the optical design software, so as to establish the relationship between the system aberrations and the amount of misalignment. In this way, the proposed Fc-Net CAA can achieve the computer-aided adjustment process for systems with large aberrations without a complicated iterative process. The off-axis three-mirror system with aspheric surfaces was simulated and adjusted. During the simulation, a single round of adjustment can make the optical system close to the design wave aberration values, and the average of the five field-of-view WFEs is enhanced from 2.4λ (RMS; λ=550nm) to 0.0764 λ (average). The simulation results verify that the improved algorithm can solve the large initial alignment error of the offaxis reflective optical system with aspheric surfaces.
By combining optical systems and image processing, wavefront coding can greatly expand the depth of focus and depth of field of optical systems. It has been widely used in iris detection, high-power microscopic objective lens, infrared optical system athermalized, and so on. At present, the image restoration algorithms commonly used in wavefront coding are based on deconvolution, Wiener filtering, and so on. Although these algorithms can achieve an excellent image restoration effect, they will also bring boundary ringing effects and artifacts to the image. When the image is disturbed by strong noise, the restoration effect will also be seriously affected. To solve these problems, a wavefront coded image restoration algorithm based on compressed sensing is proposed in this paper. The strong data reconstruction ability of the compressed sensing restoration algorithm is used to restore the encoded image obtained by the wavefront coding system. This method can effectively suppress noise and reconstruct the image without artifact and boundary ringing effect. Through the comparison of simulation results, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified.
Colour diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the main content of “looking” inspection in the four-diagnosis methods of "looking, listening, asking and feeling the pulse". The action of light on the face is a very complex process, it is difficult to distinguish reflected light from internally reflected light by human eyes alone. In this paper, we discuss the relationship between TCM facial colour diagnosis and optics, integrate imaging spectroscopy to improve the objectified development of facial colour diagnosis in TCM. A visible band snapshot hyperspectral imaging spectrometer is designed based on a grating dispersion module. This imaging spectrometer is a snapshot system with 34° field of view and a measured spectrum from 400 nm to 680 nm. The spectral resolution reaches 3nm. The total length of the optical system is only 165mm, which can realize the miniaturization of products.
As a new Marine ecological disaster in the world, the inundation of jellyfish has seriously threatened the functions of Marine ecosystem. The body of jellyfish is mainly composed of water. It is composed of two layers, inner and outer. Between the two layers, there is a thick, transparent layer, which makes it difficult to detect jellyfish in the sea. In this article, sea jellyfish is realized by using the way of polarization imaging detection, setting the underwater imaging experiment device, using polarized light lighting actively, and using LED as light source. In the same time, the polaroid and wave plate experiments for different categories of polarized light, and a coaxial optical path to verify the polarization characteristics of background and target, to improve the image contrast. The polarization detector used in this paper can simultaneously image the polarization directions of 0°, 45°, 90° and 135°. In the experiment, four polarized images are fused, and the resulting image has a higher contrast ratio compared with the visible light intensity image and contains more detailed information.
Three-dimensional imaging lidar is a new type of active detection technology, which can obtain target spatial information accurately and quickly. It has a wide application in the fields of target detection and recognition, scientific research detection, mapping and navigation, etc. Three-dimensional imaging lidar has many modulation modes, among which the non-scanning three-dimensional imaging lidar based on polarization modulation has the advantages of long measurement range, high measurement accuracy, fast imaging speed and no motion artifacts, which is one of the hot research directions in this field. In view of this technology, this paper analyzes the principle of polarization modulation imaging by Jones matrix calculation, and obtains the geometric relationship between the imaging illumination values in four polarization directions and the polarization modulation phase delay of Pockels Box. Then, a set of laser radar optical system based on polarization modulation imaging is designed by using optical software. The analysis results show that the designed optical system has good imaging quality, clear target edge imaging and can distinguish independent square targets with a diameter of 1m; The light outside the field of view of the strip light source does not enter the detector, so the system has less stray light and less imaging distortion; At last, the input phase delay δ of the Pockels box in the simulation model is randomly set to different values, and the illumination values of four polarization directions are obtained by imaging simulation, so that the phase delay δ′ of the Pockels box is inverted. The results show that | δ′-δ | ≤ 5.2× 10-6 λ, which proves that the polarization modulation method is correct.
The high sensitivity APD arrays have more and more application in the data transmission, LIDAR, remote sensing, medical image diagnosis system, environmental monitoring, military reconnaissance and etc. A preliminary study of Si APD was carried out, including the simulation of the photoelectric characteristics of Si APD, the experiment of Si APD single chip and array, and the test of Si APD. The APD gain is above 100, dark current is several nA, the rise time is nanosecond level. The 4×4, 1×16 Si APD arrays with high gain, quick response and low dark current have been made by means of available conventional semiconductor technology. The pulse width of the transient response under 1064 nm pulse LD illuminated is less than 100 ns at 100 V bias voltage which the pulse width is limited by the following amplification circuit. Some measures to improve the responsivity of APD at 1064nm is discussed. The next step is to develop the CMOS compatible high sensitivity APD array integrated with CMOS readout circuit.
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