Devices, methods and systems are disclosed that enable deflectometry on a wide array of objects, including convex and freeform optical components. One example deflectometry system includes a light source with a plurality of light emitting devices to illuminate an object under test with incident light, and a detector positioned to receive a reflected or transmitted light from the object under test. The deflectometry system further includes a movable stage for holding or securing the object under test. The movable stage can move in a translational or a rotational direction to cause the object under test to translate or rotate in a plurality of steps such that the light received at the detector encompasses a portion of a full illumination space surrounding the object, and the light received at the detector from all of the plurality of steps encompasses the full illumination space that contiguously surrounds the object under test.

Provided is a method for evaluating production precision of a spectacle lens having micro convex segments protruding from a convex surface on an object side of the spectacle lens, including measuring a shape of the convex surface of the spectacle lens; setting an actual device virtual model including a spectacle lens model based on the measured shape and an eyeball model; performing ray tracing calculation on the actual device virtual model and specifying an actual device convergence position where light rays converge on an front side of a retina of the eyeball model; and evaluating production precision of the spectacle lens on the basis of the actual device convergence position.

The blocker described comprises: a lens illumination light source; a light transmission and reflection device to reflect/transmit the light; an image sensor to detect light reflected by the light transmission and reflection device and thereby obtain an lens image; a lens meter to detect the light that has passed through the light transmission and reflection device to thereby measure lens characteristics; and a blocking member to attach a leap block to the lens. The light transmission and reflection device comprises: a first reflection plate having a central hole; a first rotating cylinder to be coupled to and to rotate the first reflection plate; a second rotating cylinder located inside and to rotate the first rotating cylinder; a second reflection plate, adjusted by the second rotating cylinder and configured to open or block the central hole in the first reflection plate; and driving means configured to drive the second rotating cylinder.

An environmental testing laboratory includes a supply port allowing air-conditioned air at a predetermined temperature supplied through the supply port at a predetermined speed, a discharge port facing the supply port and allowing the air be discharged through the discharge port, a flow passage disposed between the supply port and the discharge port and allowing the air to pass through the flow passage part, an installation part disposed at a center of the flow passage and allowing a measurement target in the installation part, and a flow straightening member which is disposed between a sidewall surface of the flow passage part and the installation part and which is configured to straighten an airflow of the air-conditioned air. The sidewall surface of the flow passage part and the first flow straightening member are disposed in parallel with the airflow of the air-conditioned air from the supply port to the discharge port.

System and methods are provided for characterizing an internal surface of a lens using interferometry measurements. Sphere-fitting a distorted radius determines distorted pathlengths. Ray-tracing simulates refraction at all upstream surfaces to determine a cumulative path length. A residual pathlength is scaled by the group-index and rays are propagated based on the phase-index. After aspheric surface fitting, a corrected radius is determined. To estimate a glass type for the lens, a thickness between focal planes of the lens surfaces is determined using RCM measurements. Then, for both surfaces, the surface is positioned into focus, interferometer path length matching is performed, a reference arm is translated to stationary phase point positions for three wavelengths to determine three per-color optical thicknesses, and ray-tracing is performed. A glass type is identified by minimizing an error function based on optical parameters of the lens and parameters determined from known glass types from a database.

The present disclosure relates to an inspection apparatus and an inspection method that enable inspection of the performance of an image pickup element. Generation of collimated light and transmission of part of the collimated light through a transmission filter having a light-blocking face provided with circular holes arranged regularly, causes conversion to rays of columnar collimated light arranged regularly. An image including the rays of columnar collimated light arranged regularly, is captured by an image pickup element being inspected. Then, acquisition of the difference between the image captured by the image pickup element being inspected and an ideal image captured by an ideal image pickup element and comparison between the difference and a threshold, result in inspection of the performance of the image pickup element being inspected.

A multi-core fiber includes multiple optical cores, and for each different core of a set of different cores of the multiple optical cores, a total change in optical length is detected. The total change in optical length represents an accumulation of all changes in optical length for multiple segments of that different core up to a point on the multi-core fiber. A difference is determined between the total changes in optical length for cores of the set of different cores. A twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with the multi-core fiber at the point on the multi-core fiber is/are determined based on the difference.

A measurement device, for measuring the shape of an interface to be measured of an optical element having a plurality of interfaces, the device including a measurement apparatus with at least one interferometric sensor illuminated by a low-coherence source, for directing a measurement beam towards the optical element to pass through the plurality of interfaces, and to detect an interference signal resulting from interferences between the measured measurement beam reflected by the interface and a reference beam, a positioning apparatus configured for relative positioning of a coherence area of the interferometric sensor at the level of the interface to be measured, and a digital processor for producing, based on the interference signal, an item of shape information of the interface to be measured according to a field of view.

A multi-core fiber includes multiple optical cores, and for each different core of a set of different cores of the multiple optical cores, a total change in optical length is detected. The total change in optical length represents an accumulation of all changes in optical length for multiple segments of that different core up to a point on the multi-core fiber. A difference is determined between the total changes in optical length for cores of the set of different cores. A twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with the multi-core fiber at the point on the multi-core fiber is/are determined based on the difference.

A shape measuring apparatus applies, to a light beam, a periodic pattern having periodicity in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis and displaceable in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, relatively displaces a focal point of an objective lens in a direction parallel to the optical axis, and calculates, based on amplitude of intensity of the light beam detected by a photodetector, face shape data on the object to be measured. Then, a top surface measuring step of acquiring face shape data on a top surface of the object to be measured, and a bottom surface measuring step of acquiring face shape data on a bottom surface of the object to be measured by transmitting through the top surface of the object to be measured and aligning the focal point of the objective lens on the bottom surface of the object to be measured are performed.