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Optimal Dispersion Condition to Distinguish OPD Directions of Spectrally-Resolved Interferometry (방향 판별 분산간섭계의 최적 분산 조건 연구)

  • Yun, Young Ho;Kim, Dae Hee;Joo, Ki-Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.259-264
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    • 2017
  • Spectrally resolved interferometry (SRI) is an attractive technique to measure absolute distances without any moving components. In the spectral interferogram obtained by a spectrometer, the optical path difference (OPD) can simply be extracted from the linear slope of the spectral phase. However, SRI has a fundamental measuring range limitation due to maximum and minimum measurable distances. In addition, SRI cannot distinguish the OPD direction because the spectral interferogram is in the form of a natural sinusoidal function. In this investigation, we describe a direction determining SRI and propose the optimal conditions for determining OPD direction. Spectral phase nonlinearity, caused by a dispersive material, effects OPD direction but deteriorates spectral interferogram visibility. In the experiment, various phase nonlinearities were measured by adjusting the dispersive material (BK7) thickness. We observed the interferogram visibility and the possibility of direction determination. Based on the experimental results, the optimal dispersion conditions are provided to distinguish OPD directions of SRI.

Generating a True Color Image with Data from Scanning White-Light Interferometry by Using a Fourier Transform

  • Kim, Jin-Yong;Kim, Seungjae;Kim, Min-Gyu;Pahk, Heui Jae
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.408-414
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    • 2019
  • In this paper we propose a method to generate a true color image in scanning white-light interferometry (SWLI). Previously, a true color image was obtained by using a color camera, or an RGB multichannel light source. Here we focused on acquiring a true color image without any hardware changes in basic SWLI, in which a monochrome camera is utilized. A Fourier transform method was used to obtain the spectral intensity distributions of the light reflected from the sample. RGB filtering was applied to the intensity distributions, to determine RGB values from the spectral intensity. Through color corrections, a true color image was generated from the RGB values. The image generated by the proposed method was verified on the basis of the RGB distance and peak signal-to-noise ratio analysis for its effectiveness.

Temporal Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Pulses using Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-field Reconstruction (주파수 위상 간섭계를 이용한 펨토초 레이저 펄스의 시간적 특성 연구)

  • 강용훈;홍경한;남창희
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2001.02a
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    • pp.240-241
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    • 2001
  • 주파수 위상 간섭계를 이용한 전기장 재구성 방법(SPIDER)은 현재의 전자장치로 분해 해낼 수 없는 짧은 펄스의 시간적 특성을 광학적 방법을 사용하여 분해 해내는 기술이며, 다음과 같은 순서로 시간 영역의 펄스를 재구성한다 : 1)주파수 간섭계(spectral inteferometry)를 사용하여 일정한 시간지연을 갖는 동일한 펄스 쌍을 만든다. 2)분산이 큰 물질(highly dispersive material)이나 에돌이 발 쌍(pairs of gratings)을 사용하여 크게 chirping되며 200배 전후로 펄스폭을 늘인 펄스를 생성한다. (중략)

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3-D Surface Profile Measurement Using An Acousto-optic Tunable Filter Based Spectral Phase Shifting Technique

  • Kim, Dae-Suk;Cho, Yong-Jai
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.281-287
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    • 2008
  • An acousto-optic tunable filter based 3-D micro surface profile measurement using an equally spaced 5 spectral phase shifting is described. The 5-bucket spectral phase shifting method is compared with a Fourier-transform method in the spectral domain. It can provide a fast measurement capability while maintaining high accuracy since it needs only 5 pieces of spectrally phase shifted imaging data and a simple calculation in comparison with the Fourier transform method that requires full wavelength scanning data and relatively complicated computation. The 3-D profile data of micro objects can be obtained in a few seconds with an accuracy of ${\sim}10nm$. The 3-D profile method also has an inherent benefit in terms of being speckle-free in measuring diffuse micro objects by employing an incoherent light source. Those simplicity and practical applicability is expected to have diverse applications in 3-D micro profilometry such as semiconductors and micro-biology.

Evaluation on Spectral Analysis in ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Stripmap-ScanSAR Interferometry (ALOS-2 Stripmap-ScanSAR 위상간섭기법에서의 스펙트럼 분석 평가)

  • Park, Seo-Woo;Jung, Seong-Woo;Hong, Sang-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.36 no.2_2
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    • pp.351-363
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    • 2020
  • It is well known that alluvial sediment located in coastal region has been easily affected by geohazard like ground subsidence, marine or meteorological disasters which threaten invaluable lives and properties. The subsidence is a sinking of the ground due to underground material movement that mostly related to soil compaction by water extraction. Thus, continuous monitoring is essential to protect possible damage from the ground subsidence in the coastal region. Radar interferometric application has been widely used to estimate surface displacement from phase information of synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Thanks to advanced SAR technique like the Small BAseline Subset (SBAS), a time-series of surface displacement could be successfully calculated with a large amount of SAR observations (>20). Because the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 L-band observations maintain higher coherence compared with other shorter wavelength like X- or C-band, it has been regarded as one of the best resources for Earth science. However, the number of ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 observations might be not enough for the SBAS application due to its global monitoring observation scenario. Unfortunately, the number of the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Stripmap images in area of our interest, Busan which located in the Southeastern Korea, is only 11 which is insufficient to apply the SBAS time-series analysis. Although it is common that the radar interferometry utilizes multiple SAR images collected from same acquisition mode, it has been reported that the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Stripmap-ScanSAR interferometric application could be possible under specific acquisition mode. In case that we can apply the Stripmap-ScanSAR interferometry with the other 18 ScanSAR observations over Busan, an enhanced time-series surface displacement with better temporal resolution could be estimated. In this study, we evaluated feasibility of the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Stripmap-ScanSAR interferometric application using Gamma software considering differences of chirp bandwidth and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) between two acquisition modes. In addition, we analyzed the interferograms with respect to spectral shift of radar carrier frequency and common band filtering. Even though it shows similar level of coherence regardless of spectral shift in the radar carrier frequency, we found periodic spectral noises in azimuth direction and significant degradation of coherence in azimuth direction after common band filtering. Therefore, the characteristics of spectral bandwidth in the range and azimuth direction should be considered cautiously for the ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Stripmap-ScanSAR interferometry.

VIMAP: AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM PROVIDING RADIO SPECTRAL INDEX MAPS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

  • Kim, Jae-Young;Trippe, Sascha
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.195-199
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    • 2014
  • We present a GUI-based interactive Python program, VIMAP, which generates radio spectral index maps of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) maps obtained at different frequencies. VIMAP is a handy tool for the spectral analysis of synchrotron emission from AGN jets, specifically of spectral index distributions, turn-over frequencies, and core-shifts. In general, the required accurate image alignment is difficult to achieve because of a loss of absolute spatial coordinate information during VLBI data reduction (self-calibration) and/or intrinsic variations of source structure as function of frequency. These issues are overcome by VIMAP which in turn is based on the two-dimensional cross-correlation algorithm of Croke & Gabuzda (2008). In this paper, we briefly review the problem of aligning VLBI AGN maps, describe the workflow of VIMAP, and present an analysis of archival VLBI maps of the active nucleus 3C 120.