With the popularity of digital camera and the application requirement of digitalized document images, using digital cameras to digitalize document images has become an irresistible trend. However, the warping of the document surface impacts on the quality of the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system seriously. To improve the warped document image’s vision quality and the OCR rate, this paper proposed a warped document image correction method based on heterogeneous registration strategies. This method mosaics two warped images of the same document from different viewpoints. Firstly, two feature points are selected from one image. Then the two feature points are registered in the other image base on heterogeneous registration strategies. At last, image mosaics are done for the two images, and the best mosaiced image is selected by OCR recognition results. As a result, for the best mosaiced image, the distortions are mostly removed and the OCR results are improved markedly. Experimental results show that the proposed method can resolve the issue of warped document image correction more effectively.
Four types of YDFs with different Al3+ concentration and mole content of GeO2 were manufactured and the refractive
index and absorption spectra of these fibers were explored. With the comparison of four YDFs and detailed analyze, it
was found that higher Al3+ concentration leads to more GeO2 volatilization, which results in the refractive index decrease.
Therefore, mole content of GeO2 should be increased when co-doping Al3+ in YDF to maintain numerical aperture.
Meanwhile, the temperature of making porous layer should be controlled exactly to obtain good repetition of Al3+-
codoped YDF as the little change of temperature has little effect on mole content of GeO2 and SiO2 but has great effect
on compactness of porous layer. By drawing the fiber and testing the related parameters, the results show that the
optimum temperature range for making soot layer should between 1440°C and 1480°C where the absorption coefficients
were as high as 620dB/m with better repeatability. Finally, the ratio of GeO2 to SiO2 should be controlled to obtain long
fluorescence lifetime for fabricating highly ytterbium-doped fiber with required numerical aperture.
A new near-elliptic inner cladding (NEIC) structure of polarization-stable highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (HB-PCF)
is proposed and analyzed by using a full-vector finite element method (FEM) with anisotropic perfectly matched
layers. From the numerical results it is confirmed that, with the diameter of air hole A varied by ~10%, the modal
birefringence degradations of the three proposed NEIC-PCFs are less than 4.2 × 10-5, 6 × 10-5 and 1.17 × 10-4,
respectively, while the average birefringence is of the order of 2 × 10-3 at 1.55μm, which strongly proves that the
proposed structure is highly polarization-stable. Especially, the MFDs in x-direction and y-direction of NEIC-PCF with
three holes diminished in the center are measured as 5.8 μm and 2.6 μm, respectively, which are very attractive in the
application field of fiber optic sensor, e.g. fiber optic gyros.
A new near-elliptic cladding Polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fibre (PM-PCF) with four different hole diameters was proposed. Since the refractive index decreases gradually from x-axis to y-axis, less polarization coupling and high extinction ratio were obtained compared to the conventional PM-PCFs. Secondly, every hole diameter of near-elliptic cladding was optimized to get good performance, considering proper mode field diameter of x-axis and y-axis for better coupling to SLD and smaller confinement loss of the new PCF, high birefringence and high extinction ratio, especially the effects of disturbance on extinction ratio stability. According to series of comparison on different hole diameters and correlation between different holes, the optimum parameters of this new PCF of Λ=2.2μm, d1=2μm, d2=1.1μm, d3=1.7μm and d4=1.2μm were derived. The optimized near-elliptic cladding PCF can obtain both high extinction ratio (>29dB) and good extinction ratio stability (<2dB with ±10% transverse disturbance of d3) which is useful for practical use.
Some kinds of high birefringence photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with elliptical inner cladding are analyzed by Galerkin
finite element method with transparent boundary conditions (TBC). Several properties of them, such as the birefringence,
confinement loss and dispersion are deduced and compared .It is shown that PCFs with different elliptical inner cladding
formed by enlarging or diminishing air holes have different properties. High birefringence can be obtained through
intruding the difference of air holes size along orthogonal direction. Enlarged air holes reduce the CL, and increase the
dispersion and dispersion slope; but diminished air holes is reversed.
A novel technique for dispersion compensation is presented. Based on the theoretical analysis, an ideal instance of
characteristics of linear chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) with 11 thermal heads and a laboratory instance of
characteristics of the CFBG with 5 thermal heads varies with different temperature is shown. They are analyzed at room
temperature with variation of the decrease from 3°C to -3°C and the increase from -2°C to 2°C. According to the results
of the simulations based on theoretical analysis, the change of micro-heaters temperature will induce the change of
grating temperature, and then change the Bragg wavelength, delay and delay slope of the CFBG. Further more, a
material experiment is presented. These results show that if the temperature controller is good enough, we will be able to
limit the temperature from 0°C to 4°C and we will receive some random dispersion values from -2608.2ps/nm to -
2835.6ps/nm. Therefore, this dispersion compensator can compensate the survival dispersion completely and can be
applied to the long-distance transmission and the optical communication system.
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