Fiber-based single-channel polarization-sensitive spectral interferometry

We present a novel, to our knowledge, fiber-based single-channel polarization-sensitive spectral interferometry system that provides depth-resolved measurement of polarization transformations of light reflected from a sample. Algebraic expressions for the Stokes parameters at the output of the interferometer are derived for light reflected from a birefringent sample by using the cross-spectral density function. By insertion of a fiber-optic spectral polarimetry instrument into the detection path of a common-path spectral interferometer, the full set of Stokes parameters of light reflected from a sample can be obtained with a single optical frequency scan. The methodology requires neither polarization-control components nor prior knowledge of the polarization state of light incident on the sample. The fiber-based single-channel polarization-sensitive spectral interferometer and analysis are demonstrated by measurement of phase retardation and fast-axis angle of a birefringent mica plate.     

Generalized Stokes parameters of a stochastic electromagnetic beam propagating through a paraxial ABCD optical system

On the basis of the generalized diffraction integral formula for an ABCD optical system in the spatial domain, a propagation law for the generalized Stokes parameters of a stochastic electromagnetic beam passing through an ABCD optical system is obtained. We describe the Stokes parameters of the source as linear combinations of the elements of the cross-spectral density matrix, and study the changes in the spectral degree of polarization and in the state of the polarization ellipse of a stochastic electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model beam propagating through a gradient-index fiber with the help of generalized Stokes parameters and the cross-spectral density matrix. The medium has significant effect on the change of the spectral degree of polarization. However, when the correlation coefficients of the source satisfy the relation delta(xx)=delta(yy)=delta(xy)=delta(yx), the medium does not influence the spectral degree of polarization.     

CCD相机的亮度色度校准装置研制

CCD相机的亮度和色度测试仪器凭借其一系列的测量优势已广泛应用于平板显示器的测量领域。本文在综合国内外相关计量标准技术优势的基础上,根据平板显示行业所特有的溯源需求进行校准装置的研制,基于积分球匀光和光谱测色原理,研制出CCD相机的亮度色度校准装置,并对校准装置的计量性能和特性进行研究以及对装置的测量结果进行验证。结果表明,该校准装置满足作为计量标准的技术要求,可用于CCD相机亮度和色度参数的校准。     

Preflight calibration of the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment polarization modulation package based on liquid-crystal variable retarders

We present the study, characterization, and calibration of the polarization modulation package (PMP) of the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) instrument, a successful Stokes spectropolarimeter on board the SUNRISE balloon project within the NASA Long Duration Balloon program. IMaX was designed to measure the Stokes parameters of incoming light with a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 10³, using as polarization modulators two nematic liquid-crystal variable retarders (LCVRs). An ad hoc calibration system that reproduced the optical and environmental characteristics of IMaX was designed, assembled, and aligned. The system recreates the optical beam that IMaX receives from SUNRISE with known polarization across the image plane, as well as an optical system with the same characteristics of IMaX. The system was used to calibrate the IMaX PMP in vacuum and at different temperatures, with a thermal control resembling the in-flight one. The efficiencies obtained were very high, near theoretical maximum values: the total efficiency in vacuum calibration at nominal temperature was 0.972 (1 being the theoretical maximum). The condition number of the demodulation matrix of the same calibration was 0.522 (0.577 theoretical maximum). Some inhomogeneities of the LCVRs were clear during the pixel-by-pixel calibration of the PMP, but it can be concluded that the mere information of a pixel-per-pixel calibration is sufficient to maintain high efficiencies in spite of inhomogeneities of the LCVRs.     

Acousto-optic tunable filter imaging spectrometer with full Stokes polarimetric capability

Polarization is an important addition to spectral imaging in detecting and identifying objects of interest, and simple linear polarization measurements are often inadequate. Full polarization analysis can give additional information for discrimination where the polarization state is completely described by the Stokes parameters. An acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) imaging system was built incorporating two liquid-crystal variable retarders (LCVRs) that can provide complete spectral-polarimetric analysis, and it is believed to be the first demonstration of a full Stokes polarimetric AOTF spectral imaging system with no moving parts. It is also shown that a single LCVR cannot provide all the Stokes parameters.     

一种在线油料电导率测量装置的研制

介绍了一种在线油料电导率测量装置。该装置主要由显示控制模块、电导测量模块和环境监测模块组成,具有电导率测量、温湿度测量、大气压力测量、温度系数补偿、定点校准等功能,方便安装、维护;通过对影响参数的检测,增强了同批次油料不同地域测量数据的可比性;测试数据分析结果表明该装置的主要性能指标达到设计要求。     

紫外辐射计的波长定标及不确定度分析

限于常规汞灯谱线法波长定标的局限性,构建了紫外辐射计波长定标装置,研究了紫外辐射计波长定标的物理过程和测量链,并对紫外辐射计中臭氧十二个吸收波长进行了光谱定标,通过对定标影响量的分析和计算,得到定标影响量的测量不确定度和波长定标合成标准不确定度,其中波长定标合成标准不确定度为0.026nm,同时通过光学CAD分析和实验验证紫外辐射计的光谱带宽可以达到1.0nm.应用自行构建的紫外波长定标装置较好地完成了紫外辐射计臭氧吸收谱线的定标工作,满足了臭氧反演所需的波长精度要求和光谱带宽要求.     

Broadband Division-of-Amplitude Polarimeter Based on Uncoated Prisms

A broadband division-of-amplitude polarimeter (DOAP) is presented. It can provide the real-time measurement of any state of polarization of light, described by its Stokes vector, in large spectral windows. The light is split first into two beams by a prism and then into four beams by means of any polarizer device that will separate the two linear orthogonal states of polarization. Finally, the Stokes vector is directly deduced from the four measured intensities. To avoid interference effects, the splitting of light into four beams is induced only by refractive-index contrast effects between semi-infinite media that are weakly dependent on the wavelength. An experimental setup working from 0.4 to 2 mum is described. It provides similar sensitivities for all the states of polarization, and its characteristics are constant, on a scale of a few percent, within the spectral window. Calibrations performed at 458 and 633 nm display good agreement between theoretical and experimental values. The accuracy of the prism DOAP, evaluated by measurement of the Stokes vector produced by a rotating Glan polarizer, is better than 1%. An infrared extension of this polarimeter is also presented.     

A field-portable,laser-diode spectrometer for the ultra-sensitive detection of hydrocarbon gases

We have developed a field-portable optical gas sensor for the ultra-sensitive detection of ethane. The system is based on an adaptation of a commercially available system, which uses a cryogenically cooled, lead-salt laser diode at 3.34 μm and a multi-pass astigmatic Herriott sample cell. We have adapted this system to a second derivative wavelength modulation scheme giving a lower detection limit of less than 100 parts per trillion for a one second measurement time. Our custom-designed software controls every aspect of the instrument operation from spectral scanning of the laser diode, to automatic calibration, optical alignment, spectral analysis and complete data logging.     

Linear variable optical filter-based ultraviolet microspectrometer

An IC-compatible linear variable optical filter (LVOF) for application in the UV spectral range between 310 and 400 nm has been fabricated using resist reflow and an optimized dry-etching. The LVOF is mounted on the top of a commercially available CMOS camera to result in a UV microspectrometer. A special calibration technique has been employed that is based on an initial spectral measurement on a xenon lamp. The image recorded on the camera during calibration is used in a signal processing algorithm to reconstruct the spectrum of the mercury lamp and the calibration data is subsequently used in UV spectral measurements. Experiments on a fabricated LVOF-based microspectrometer with this calibration approach implemented reveal a spectral resolution of 0.5 nm.     

太阳模拟器关键参量校准方法研究

提出了一种在线校准太阳模拟器电学参量测量准确度的方法,可以实现伏安特性曲线的多量程校准,利用此方法搭建了太阳模拟器电子负载箱电流、电压、功率等关键电学参量校准装置。针对太阳模拟器辐照不均匀度、不稳定度校准装置,分析了太阳电池探测器温度和负载阻值对太阳模拟器均匀性校准结果的影响,发现对于常规尺寸156mm×156mm单晶太阳电池探测器,负载阻值应小于30mΩ;当辐照不均匀度测试过程中探测器温度保持恒定情况下,恒定温度量值大小对辐照不均匀度测量结果无影响。     

惯性导航设备升沉数据测试系统研究

研制了一套基于STM32单片机与单轴摇摆台的测试系统,利用固定圆心、固定半径条件下的圆内三角形关系,通过拉线传感器采集单轴摇摆台复合运动中的升沉数据;同时,对惯性导航设备输出的升沉数据进行采集与处理。对测试系统输出的升沉数据进行了验证,实验结果表明:该测试系统的测试数据准确合理,可实现对惯性导航设备升沉参数的动态测试,弥补了现有同类测试系统的结构复杂、量程小等不足。     

Infrared hyperspectral imaging polarimeter using birefringent prisms

A compact short-wavelength and middle-wavelength infrared hyperspectral imaging polarimeter (IHIP) is introduced. The sensor includes a pair of sapphire Wollaston prisms and several high-order retarders to form an imaging Fourier transform spectropolarimeter. The Wollaston prisms serve as a birefringent interferometer with reduced sensitivity to vibration versus an unequal path interferometer, such as a Michelson. Polarimetric data are acquired through the use of channeled spectropolarimetry to modulate the spectrum with the Stokes parameter information. The collected interferogram is Fourier filtered and reconstructed to recover the spatially and spectrally varying Stokes vector data across the image. The IHIP operates over a ±5° field of view and implements a dual-scan false signature reduction technique to suppress polarimetric aliasing artifacts. In this paper, the optical layout and operation of the IHIP sensor are presented in addition to the radiometric, spectral, and polarimetric calibration techniques used with the system. Spectral and spectropolarimetric results from the laboratory and outdoor tests with the instrument are also presented.     

Mueller polarimetric imaging system with liquid crystals

We present a new polarimetric imaging system based on liquid-crystal modulators, a spectrally filtered white-light source, and a CCD camera. The whole Mueller matrix image of the sample is measured in approximately 5 s in the transmission mode. The instrument design, together with an original and easy-to-operate calibration procedure, provides high accuracy over a wide spectral range (500-700 nm). This accuracy has been assessed by measurement of a linear polarizer at different orientations and a thick wedged quartz plate as an example of a partially depolarized retarder. Polarimetric images of a stained hepatic biopsy with significant fibrosis have been taken at several wavelengths. The optical properties of Picrosirius Red stained collagen (diattenuation, retardance, and polarizance) have been measured independently from each other between 500 and 700 nm.     

A fast-pulse oscilloscope calibration system

A system is described for calibrating high-bandwidth oscilloscopes using pulse signals. The fast-pulse oscilloscope calibration system (FPOCS) is to be used to determine the step response parameters for digitizing oscilloscopes having bandwidths of ~20 GHz. The system can provide measurement traceability to standards maintained at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It comprises fast electrical step generation hardware, a personal computer (PC) and software, and a reference waveform, i.e., a data file containing an estimate of the step generator output signal. The reference waveform is produced by prior measurement by NIST of the step generator output signal (calibration step signal). When the FPOCS is in use, the calibration step signal is applied to the device under test, which is an oscilloscope sampling channel. The measured step waveform is corrected for timebase errors, then the reference waveform is deconvolved from it. The results are impulse, step, and frequency response estimates, and their associated parameters (e.g., transition duration, transition amplitude, -3 dB bandwidth) and uncertainties. The system and its components are described, and preliminary test results are presented     

Prelaunch characterization of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument transfer function in the spectral domain

A method and an experimental measurement setup to accurately characterize the instrument transfer function in the spectral domain for hyperspectral spectrometers in the ultraviolet-visible wavelength range are described. The application to the on-ground calibration of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on board the Earth Observing System Aura satellite is presented and discussed. With this method and setup, based on an echelle grating, a sampling of the instrument transfer function in the spectral domain can be selected and is not limited by the spectral resolution and sampling of the spectrometer that is being characterized. The importance of accurately knowing the OMI instrument transfer functions in the spectral domain for in-flight differential optical absorption spectroscopy retrievals and wavelength calibration is discussed. The analysis of the OMI measurement data is presented and shows that the instrument transfer functions in the spectral domain as a function of wavelength and viewing angle can be determined with high accuracy.     

带引压管腔的压力测量系统动态校准技术研究

在动态压力测量领域中,带引压管腔的压力测量系统常被用于空间狭小、工况恶劣等情况下的压力测量,压力信号经过引压管腔传递会发生畸变,引压管腔是降低压力测量系统频响的首要因素.本文首先介绍了带引压管腔的压力测量系统物理结构模型,阐述管腔动态特性影响动态测量机理.其次,介绍了现有引压管腔主要校准方法和装置,开展新型校准装置和方...     

Upgradation of a spectral irradiance measurement facility at National Physical Laboratory,India

This report describes the details of a recently upgraded spectral irradiance measurement facility in optical radiation standards at National Physical Laboratory, India. This facility provides the calibration of spectral irradiance in the wavelength range 280 nm – 2500 nm. PTB, Braunschweig, Germany calibrated five numbers of 1000 W quartz halogen lamps, which are used as reference standards for spectral irradiance scale. In addition to providing the details of instruments, the procedure of calibration and evaluation of uncertainties is also described. For checking the fidelity, repeatability and reproducibility of the upgraded system, calibration of one of the PTB calibrated lamps, was done against the other four PTB calibrated lamps. These measurements not only provide confidence on the upgraded system but also verify the retention of the PTB certificate values after a lapse of two years after their calibration.     

Dual-aureole and sun spectrometer system for airborne measurements of aerosol optical properties

We have designed an airborne spectrometer system for the simultaneous measurement of the direct sun irradiance and the aureole radiance in two different solid angles. The high-resolution spectral radiation measurements are used to derive vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties. Combined measurements in two solid angles provide better information about the aerosol type without additional and elaborate measuring geometries. It is even possible to discriminate between absorbing and nonabsorbing aerosol types. Furthermore, they allow to apply additional calibration methods and simplify the detection of contaminated data (e.g., by thin cirrus clouds). For the characterization of the detected aerosol type a new index is introduced that is the slope of the aerosol phase function in the forward scattering region. The instrumentation is a flexible modular setup, which has already been successfully applied in airborne and ground-based field campaigns. We describe the setup as well as the calibration of the instrument. In addition, example vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties--including the aureole measurements--are shown and discussed.     

一种浮空器气囊体积测量装置的现场校准方法探讨

介绍一种浮空器气囊体积测量装置的现场校准方法,通过设定现场校准区域,构建地面控制点的局部三维坐标;在被测对象侧边的6个地面控制点设立测站,用激光全站仪和棱镜组件按照极坐标法观察得到被测对象侧边精密标定杆上所有准校点的局部三维坐标,建立校准参考坐标系,构建完整的现场校准场。测量装置对在校准参考坐标系中的精密标定杆上校准点进行拍摄获得图片,解算得到测量装置的每个相机的外方位元素,得到其位置和姿态,完成校准工作。本文提出的现场校准方法解决了测量装置在任意场景下浮空器囊体体积测量的应用问题和测量装置使用中需要搬动情况下的校准问题。