Disclosed is a stitching-measurement device adapted for performing stitching-measurement on a surface of a concave spherical lens, including: an interferometer, a reference lens, a first plane mirror, a second plane mirror, a first adjustment mechanism, a second adjustment mechanism, a concave spherical object to be measured, a motion table and a control mechanism, the first plane mirror being mounted on the first adjustment mechanism configured to change a position of the first plane mirror; the second plane mirror being mounted on the second adjustment mechanism configured to change a position of the second plane mirror; the concave spherical object to be measured being placed on the motion table configured to change a position of the concave spherical object to be measured; the control mechanism communicating with the interferometer, the first adjustment mechanism, the second adjustment mechanism, and the motion table for issuing control signals, wherein by the first adjustment mechanism and the second adjustment mechanism, an included angle between the first plane mirror and the second plane mirror is adjusted in such a way that light beam incident on the concave spherical object to be measured is inclined by a first angle relative to light beam emitted from the reference lens, thereby avoiding an operation of inclining the concave spherical object to be measured during the stitching-measurement.

A digital measuring device implemented on a photonic integrated circuit, the digital measuring device including a laser source configured to provide light, a first ring resonator configured to produce a first frequency comb of light from the laser source, wherein at least a portion of the first frequency comb of light is directed at a moving object, a local oscillator configured to provide a reference beam, at least one waveguide structure configured to combine the reference beam with light reflected from the moving object to produce a measurement beam, a first multiplexer configured to split the measurement beam into a plurality of channels spaced in frequency, and a plurality of detectors configured to detect an intensity value of each channel of the plurality of channels to measure a distance between the digital measuring device and the moving object.

A tomography convergence-type oral scanner includes an oral scanning unit comprising a projector including a first light source for generating visible light, and a camera for generating image data by receiving the visible light reflected from a tooth; an optical tomography scanning unit comprising an OCT body including a second light source that has a different wavelength from the first light source and generates a measurement light incident on the tooth, a beam splitter for splitting the measurement light into a reference light and a measurement light, a reference mirror that reflects the reference light, and a photodetector for detecting an interference light, and an OCT scan probe including a collimator for converting the measurement light into a parallel light and a MEMS mirror for reflecting the converted parallel light; and a dichroic mirror for transmitting the visible light and reflecting the parallel light, thereby irradiating a tooth to be measured.

The present application discloses a control method for fast trapping and high-frequency mutual ejection of cold atom groups. The control method includes: arranging three groups of optical stops on three groups of light sources (splitters) in three-dimensional magneto-optical traps, to form a shaded regions; ejecting a cold atom group from the first three-dimensional magneto-optical trap along a movement trajectory to the second three-dimensional magneto-optical trap, where the movement trajectory passes through the shaded regions of the two three-dimensional magneto-optical traps; and, when it is determined that the cold atom group enters the shaded region of the first three-dimensional magneto-optical trap, trapping a next cold atom group by turning on three-dimensional cooling light and three-dimensional repumping light in the first three-dimensional magneto-optical trap.

A laser interference device includes a measurement laser that outputs a laser beam, a beam splitter that divides the laser beam into a measurement laser beam and a frequency monitor laser beam, a reference laser that outputs a reference laser beam, a frequency detector that detects a beat frequency resulting from interference between the reference laser beam and the frequency monitor laser beam, a wavelength calculator that calculates a wavelength of the frequency monitor laser beam (a wavelength measurement value) on the basis of the beat frequency, a light detector that detects an interference light of the measurement light and the reference light of the measurement laser beam and outputs a light detection signal, and a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement of the measurement mirror by performing an arithmetic process based on the wavelength measurement value and the light detection signal.

In some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for multiple reference arm spectral domain optical coherence tomography are provided which, in some embodiments, includes: a sample arm coupled to a light source; a first reference arm having a first path length; a second reference arm having a longer second path length; a first optical coupler that combines light from the sample arm and the first reference arm; a second coupler that combines light from the sample arm and the second reference arm; and an optical switch comprising: a first input port coupled to the first optical coupler; a second input coupled to the second coupler via an optical waveguide that induces a delay at least equal to an acquisition time of an image sensor; and an output coupled to the image sensor.

Interferometric speckle visibility spectroscopy methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for recovering sample speckle field data or a speckle field pattern from an off-axis interferogram recorded by one or more sensors over an exposure time and determining sample dynamics of a sample being analyzed from speckle statistics of the speckle field data or the speckle field pattern.

An optical fiber splitter device comprising at least two optical fibers of different lengths is disclosed for partial or complete compensation of the optical path difference between waves interfering to generate a hologram or an interferogram. Various implementations of this fiber splitter device are described in apparatuses for holographic and interferometric imaging of microscopic and larger samples.

An interferometer includes a coherent light source and an array of electrically coupled light-sensitive pixel elements. The interferometer is configured to direct an internal optical path of the coherent light source and an external optical path of the coherent light source into a monolithic unit cell. In addition, the monolithic unit cell is configured to direct the internal optical path first through the monolithic unit cell and then onto the array and also configured to direct the external optical path back outside the monolithic unit cell through an external environment and then back into the monolithic unit cell and finally onto the array. In addition, interferometer is further configured to combine the internal optical path and the external optical path at the array and produce a first interferogram on the array, the interferogram characterizing an optical property of the external environment.

According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional (3D) measuring device is provided. The 3D measuring device includes a processor system that is configured to generate a point cloud representing multiple surfaces. The point cloud includes multiple scan points. Generating the point cloud includes receiving spherical coordinates for a scan point, the spherical coordinates comprising a distance (r), a polar angle (θ), and an azimuth angle (φ). Generating the point cloud further includes homogenizing a scan point density of the surfaces by filtering the scan points. The homogenizing includes computing a value (p) for the scan point based on the spherical coordinates. Based on the value exceeding a predetermined threshold, storing the scan point as part of the point cloud, and based on the value not exceeding the predetermined threshold, discarding the scan point.