DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SUBSURFACE DEFECT OF OPTICAL COMPONENT

Abstract

Disclosed are a device and method for detecting a subsurface defect of an optical component. According to the device and method, a spectral confocal technology, a laser scattering technology and a laser-induced ultrasonic technology are combined, excitation laser and detection laser are simultaneously focused to different depths of the optical component through a dispersion lens set, the excitation laser generates a transient thermal expansion effect on a subsurface of the optical component, the detection laser is used for observing and analyzing ultrasonic vibration of the subsurface defect under an action of the thermal expansion effect, and spatial distribution information and scattered spectral information of scattered light at a position of the subsurface defect are acquired by the spectral confocal technology. The device and method are suitable for nondestructive testing of a finished product of an ultra-precise optical component with a strict requirement on the subsurface defect.

Claims

1. A device for detecting a subsurface defect of an optical component, comprising a wide-spectrum light source, an excitation laser device, a detection laser device, a dispersion lens set, a spectrum detection device, a laser interference detection device, an optical fiber optical path system, a motion platform and a main control system, wherein: the wide-spectrum light source generates white light, the excitation laser device generates excitation laser, and the detection laser device generates detection laser; the white light, the excitation laser and the detection laser are coupled into the dispersion lens set through the optical fiber optical path system; the dispersion lens set focuses the white light, the excitation laser and the detection laser to different depths of the optical component; the excitation laser generates a transient thermal expansion effect on a subsurface of the optical component and induces ultrasonic vibration; the laser interference detection device is used for observing and recording the ultrasonic vibration induced by the excitation laser, and composed of a Fabry-Perot resonator, a dichroic lens, an interference photoelectric detector and an interference signal sampler; the spectrum detection device is used for detecting spectrum distribution information of reflected light and scattered light; the motion platform is capable of driving the optical component to be detected or the dispersion lens set to move in a three-dimensional space of X, Y and Z, and scanning and detecting a surface and a subsurface of a sample to be detected through the main control system; the optical fiber optical path system comprises a dual-mode optical fiber, a Y-shaped optical fiber coupler, a 1×2 optical switch, a first visible light optical fiber, a second visible light optical fiber, a third visible light optical fiber, a fourth visible light optical fiber and an optical fiber beam collector; the dual-mode optical fiber is composed of an infrared annular multi-core optical fiber and a visible light multi-core optical fiber, with a cross section in a circular shape; the infrared multi-core optical fiber surrounds on an outer side of the visible light multi-core optical fiber; and the visible light multi-core optical fiber is provided with an odd number of fiber cores, a central fiber core is located in a geometric center of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, and a diameter of the central fiber core is more than three times that of other fiber cores; the 1×2 optical switch is provided with three ports comprising a port P1, a port P2 and a port P3, which are respectively connected with one ends of the first visible light optical fiber, the second visible light optical fiber and the third visible light optical fiber, and the port P1 is only communicated with one of the port P2 and the port P3 at the same time; the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler is provided with three ports comprising a light inlet, a light outlet and a coupling port; the other end of the first visible light optical fiber is connected to the light inlet of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler; one end of the fourth visible light optical fiber is connected to the light outlet of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler, and the other end of the fourth visible light optical fiber is connected to an intermediate node of the optical fiber beam collector; and the central fiber core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber is connected to the coupling port of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler; the white light generated by the wide-spectrum light source enters the port P2 of the 1×2 optical switch through the second visible light optical fiber; the detection laser generated by the detection laser device passes through the laser interference detection device and then enters the port P3 of the 1×2 optical switch through the third visible light optical fiber; and the optical fiber beam collector is provided with an odd number of nodes arranged in a linear array, wherein the number of nodes is the same as the number of cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, and used for collecting the fiber cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber into the linear array.

2. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 1, wherein: the dispersion lens set is capable of respectively focusing polychromatic light and generating axial dispersion, with a numerical aperture larger than 0.6; and through the dispersion lens set, the detection laser and the excitation laser are respectively focused at different axial positions, and a distance between the axial positions of the detection laser and the excitation laser ranges from 90 microns to 150 microns.

3. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 2, wherein the distance between the axial positions of the detection laser and the excitation laser is 120 microns.

4. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 1, wherein the wide-spectrum light source is a white light LED point light source, which generates continuous wide-spectrum white light; the excitation laser device is a near infrared laser device, a wavelength of the excitation laser preferably ranges from 1,000 nanometers to 1,800 nanometers, and a time domain width of a minimum pulse is less than 1,000 picoseconds; and the detection laser device generates continuous detection laser, and a wavelength of the detection laser ranges from 480 nanometers to 600 nanometers.

5. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 1, wherein the spectrum detection device comprises a first lens, a second lens, a grating optical splitter, a photodetector, and a data acquisition and processing module; the first lens collimates light output by the visible light multi-core optical fiber and makes the light incident on the grating optical splitter in a form of a linear array; the grating optical splitter reflects the incident light at different angles according to different wavelengths, makes the reflected light pass through the second lens to form a plurality of light beams, and finally makes the light beams incident on the photodetector; the photodetector is an area array detector, and is a CMOS or CCD image sensor; and the data acquisition and processing module is configured for controlling exposure of the photodetector, acquiring an electrical signal output by the photodetector into a digital signal, and processing and storing the digital signal to obtain spectral information.

6. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 1, wherein a detection method of the device specifically comprises the following steps of: step 1: turning on a system power supply to preheat the wide-spectrum light source, the excitation laser device and the detection laser device for a period of time, so as to ensure spectrum distribution of the white light and frequency stabilities of the excitation laser and the detection laser; step 2: setting a detection area according to size information of the optical component to be detected; step 3: controlling the motion platform to place the dispersion lens set above a designated detection position of the optical component to be detected; step 4: controlling the 1×2 optical switch to gate a light source of the detection laser; and controlling the motion platform to move up and down to focus the detection laser on an upper surface of the optical component to be detected; step 5: controlling the excitation laser device to generate the excitation laser, and inducing ultrasonic vibration at a focusing position of the excitation laser; and synchronously, recording propagation data of ultrasonic vibration to a surface through the laser interference detection device; step 6: controlling the motion platform to step up and down; alternately gating the wide-spectrum light source and the light source of the detection laser by controlling the 1×2 optical switch at each stepping position; and respectively recording spectrum distribution information of reflected light output by each core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber at a current position through the spectrum detection device; step 7: controlling the motion platform to move in a plane, and checking whether a detection in the detection area is finished; and when the detection is not finished, moving the optical component to next designated detection position, carrying out related operations in the steps 3, 4, 5 and 6 above, and recording experimental data; and step 8: calculating to acquire spatial information of the subsurface defect and identifying a type of the subsurface defect according to the recorded experimental data, and obtaining a degree of subsurface damage.

7. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 6, wherein in the detection method of the device, a specific method of the step 4 of focusing the detection laser on the upper surface of the optical component to be detected comprises: controlling the platform to move to keep the dispersion lens set far away from the optical component to be detected; stopping moving when the dispersion lens set is obviously far away from a focusing area; controlling the platform to move to make the dispersion lens set close to the optical component to be detected step by step, and recording spectrum distribution information of the central fiber core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber; analyzing spectrum distribution information corresponding to each position, finding a position with a maximum amplitude corresponding to the wavelength of the detection laser, and controlling the motion platform to move to the position; and controlling the 1×2 optical switch to gate the wide-spectrum light source, acquiring the spectrum distribution information of the central fiber core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, calculating a wavelength corresponding to the position with the maximum amplitude, and calculating a difference between the wavelength and the wavelength of the detection laser, wherein when the difference is within ±15 microns, a focusing position is correct.

8. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 6, wherein in the detection method of the device, a specific method of the step 8 of calculating to acquire the spatial information of the subsurface defect comprises: representing the fiber cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber as F.sub.1, F.sub.2, F.sub.3 . . . F.sub.n, and recording the central fiber core as F.sub.m; carrying out correlation marking on the spectrum distribution information obtained in the step 6 with corresponding upper and lower positions and a fiber core serial number; and when the fiber core F.sub.n is located at a position z, recording spectrum distribution information of the detection laser corresponding to the light source of the detection laser as S.sub.l(z,n), and recording spectrum distribution information of white light dispersion corresponding to the wide-spectrum light source as S.sub.w(z,n); respectively obtaining maximum amplitudes of S.sub.l(z,n) and S.sub.w(z,n) according to spatial arrangement information of each fiber core of the visible light optical fiber, and constructing an amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z) of an optical field of the detection laser and an amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-w(z) of an optical field of the white light dispersion corresponding to the position z; taking S.sub.l(z,m) and S.sub.w(z,m) corresponding to the central fiber core F.sub.m of the visible light multi-core optical fiber as benchmarks to obtain main component offsets of other fiber cores, and constructing a phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser and a phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion corresponding to the position z; carrying out a difference operation on amplitude distribution diagrams I.sub.A-l(z) and I.sub.A-l(z+Δz) of optical fields of adjacent detection lasers in a height direction to construct a spatial gradient map I.sub.G-l(z) in the height direction; and carrying out a difference operation on amplitude distribution diagrams I.sub.A-w(z) and I.sub.A-w(z+Δz) of optical fields of adjacent white light dispersions in a height direction to construct a spatial gradient map I.sub.G-w(z) in the height direction; carrying out spatial deconvolution on the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser and the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion, wherein a dependent convolution kernel is a mask image of Gaussian distribution, so as to respectively obtain reflected light intensity amplitude diagrams I.sub.Ap-l(z) and I.sub.Ap-w(z) at the position z; and normalizing values of the obtained distribution diagrams I.sub.P-l(z), I.sub.P-w(z), I.sub.G-l(z) and I.sub.G-w(z) to (−1, +1); constructing a two-dimensional cross-sectional image I.sub.(z) of a micro-defect through a formula I.sub.(z)=σI.sub.Ap-l(z)(I.sub.P-l(z).sup.2+I.sub.G-l(z).sup.2)+ρI.sub.Ap-w(z)(I.sub.P-w(z).sup.2+I.sub.G-w(z).sup.2), wherein a value of a is proportional to a reflection coefficient of the optical component to be detected to the detection laser, and a value of ρ is proportional to an absorption coefficient of the optical component to be detected to the excitation laser; and correspondingly arranging two-dimensional cross-sectional images in all height directions to obtain spatial three-dimensional information of the subsurface defect.

9. The device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to claim 8, wherein in the detection method of the device, a specific method of the step 8 of identifying the type of the subsurface defect comprises: using the two-dimensional cross-sectional image I.sub.(z), the phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser and the phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion as two-dimensional input images, using the propagation data of the ultrasonic vibration to the surface recorded in the step 5 as a one-dimensional input signal, and carrying out small sample training through a Fast RCNN deep learning algorithm, so as to identify the type of the subsurface defect and realize damage characterization.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0039] FIG. 1 is a schematic composition diagram of a device for detecting a subsurface defect of an optical component according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0040] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a dispersion lens set focusing excitation laser and detection laser respectively according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[0041] FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a structural layout of a multi-mode optical fiber according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[0042] FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a method used in the device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[0043] FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of acquiring spectrum spatial distribution information of white light dispersion according to the embodiment of the present invention; and

[0044] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a method of calculating to obtain spatial information of a subsurface defect according to the embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0045] The present invention will be described in detail hereinafter with reference to the drawings and the embodiments.

[0046] According to the present invention, a spectral confocal technology, a laser scattering technology and a laser-induced ultrasonic technology are combined, excitation laser and detection laser are simultaneously focused to different depths of an optical component through a dispersion lens set, the excitation laser generates a transient thermal expansion effect on a subsurface of the optical component, the detection laser is used for observing and analyzing ultrasonic vibration of the subsurface defect under an action of the thermal expansion effect, and spatial distribution information and scattered spectral information of scattered light at a position of the subsurface defect are acquired by the spectral confocal technology. Multi-dimensional information such as a reflection spectrum, a scattering spectrum, a three-dimensional shape and a defect depth of the defect is obtained by utilizing the technologies above, and damage characterization of the subsurface defect is carried out. The present invention is suitable for nondestructive testing of a finished product of an ultra-precise optical component with a strict requirement on the subsurface defect.

[0047] The embodiments of the present invention relate to a device and method for detecting a subsurface defect of an optical component, which may be used for detecting and evaluating the subsurface defect of the optical component. An embodiment provided by the present invention will be described hereinafter with reference to the drawings.

[0048] As shown in FIG. 1, a device for detecting according to an embodiment provided by the present invention comprises a wide-spectrum light source 108, an excitation laser device 112, a detection laser device 111, a dispersion lens set 101, a spectrum detection device 301, a laser interference detection device 201, an optical fiber optical path system, a motion platform 501 and a main control system 701.

[0049] In the embodiment, the wide-spectrum light source 108 generates white light, the excitation laser device 112 generates excitation laser, and the detection laser device 111 generates detection laser. The white light, the excitation laser and the detection laser are coupled into the dispersion lens set 101 through the optical fiber optical path system 102. The dispersion lens set 101 focuses the white light, the excitation laser and the detection laser to different depths of an optical component 601 to be detected. The spectrum detection device 301 is used for detecting spectrum distribution information of reflected light and scattered light. The excitation laser generates a transient thermal expansion effect on a subsurface of the optical component 601 to be detected. The laser interference detection device 201 is used for observing and recording ultrasonic vibration induced by the excitation laser, and composed of a Fabry-Perot resonator, a dichroic lens, an interference photoelectric detector and an interference signal sampler. The motion platform 501 is driven by a three-axis motion driver 113, and is capable of driving the optical component 601 to be detected to move in a three-dimensional space of X, Y and Z, and scanning and detecting a subsurface of a sample to be detected through the main control system 701.

[0050] In the embodiment, the wide-spectrum light source 108 used is a white light LED point light source used for generating continuous wide-spectrum white light. The excitation laser device 112 is a near infrared laser device, a wavelength of the excitation laser preferably ranges from 1,000 nanometers to 1,800 nanometers, and a time domain width of a minimum pulse is less than 1,000 picoseconds. The detection laser device 111 generates continuous detection laser, and a wavelength of the detection laser preferably ranges from 480 nanometers to 600 nanometers, and is most preferably 545 nanometers.

[0051] In the embodiment, the dispersion lens set 101 in the device is capable of respectively focusing polychromatic light and generating axial dispersion, with a numerical aperture larger than 0.6 and a magnification larger than 5. As shown in FIG. 2, in a quartz glass sample, the detection laser has an axial focusing position 101-D and the excitation laser has an axial focusing position 101-E through the dispersion lens set 101, and a distance ΔL between the axial focusing positions of the detection laser and the excitation laser preferably ranges from 90 microns to 150 microns, and most preferably ΔL=120 microns.

[0052] In the embodiment, the optical fiber optical path system in the device comprises a dual-mode optical fiber 102, a Y-shaped optical fiber coupler 103, a 1×2 optical switch 106, a first visible light optical fiber 104, a second visible light optical fiber 107, a third visible light optical fiber 110, a fourth visible light optical fiber 105 and an optical fiber beam collector 114.

[0053] As shown in FIG. 3, in the embodiment, the dual-mode optical fiber 102 is designed to be composed of an infrared annular multi-core optical fiber 102-1 and a visible light multi-core optical fiber, and the infrared multi-core optical fiber 102-1 surrounds on an outer side of the visible light multi-core optical fiber. The visible light multi-core optical fiber is provided with an odd number of fiber cores, a central fiber core 102-2 is located in a geometric center of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, and a diameter of the central fiber core is more than three times that of other fiber cores 102-3.

[0054] In the embodiment, the 1×2 optical switch 106 is provided with three ports comprising a port P1, a port P2 and a port P3, which are respectively connected with one ends of the first visible light optical fiber 104, the second visible light optical fiber 107 and the third visible light optical fiber 110, and the port P1 is only communicated with one of the port P2 and the port P3 at the same time. The Y-shaped optical fiber coupler 103 is provided with three ports comprising a light inlet, a light outlet and a coupling port. The other end of the first visible light optical fiber 104 is connected to the light inlet of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler 103. One end of the fourth visible light optical fiber 105 is connected to the light outlet of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler 103, and the other end of the fourth visible light optical fiber is connected to an intermediate node F. of the optical fiber beam collector 114. The central fiber core 102-2 of the visible light multi-core optical fiber is connected to the coupling port of the Y-shaped optical fiber coupler 103. The white light generated by the wide-spectrum light source 108 enters the port P2 of the 1×2 optical switch 106 through the second visible light optical fiber 107. The detection laser generated by the detection laser device 111 passes through the laser interference detection device 201 and then enters the port P3 of the 1×2 optical switch 106 through the third visible light optical fiber 110. The optical fiber beam collector 114 is provided with an odd number of nodes arranged in a linear array, wherein the number of nodes is the same as the number of cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, and used for collecting the fiber cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber into the linear array.

[0055] In the embodiment, the spectrum detection device 301 in the device comprises a first lens 302, a second lens 304, a grating optical splitter 303, a photodetector 305, and a data acquisition and processing module 401.

[0056] The first lens 302 collimates light output by the visible light multi-core optical fibers 102-2 and 102-3, and makes the light incident on the grating optical splitter 303 in a form of a linear array. The grating optical splitter 303 reflects the incident light at different angles according to different wavelengths, makes the reflected light pass through the second lens 304 to form a plurality of light beams, and finally makes the light beams incident on the photodetector 305. The photodetector 305 is an area array detector, and may be a CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) or CCD (charge-coupled device) image sensor. The data acquisition and processing module 401 is configured for controlling exposure of the photodetector 305, acquiring an electrical signal output by the photodetector 305 into a digital signal, and processing and storing the digital signal to obtain spectral information.

[0057] A method for detecting a subsurface defect of an optical component actually relies on the device for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component above, with a flow as shown in FIG. 4, and comprises the following steps of:

[0058] F01: turning on a system power supply to preheat the wide-spectrum light source 108, the excitation laser device 112 and the detection laser device 111 for a period of time, so as to ensure spectrum distribution of the white light and frequency stabilities of the excitation laser and the detection laser;

[0059] F02: setting a detection area and a detection range according to size information of the optical component 601 to be detected;

[0060] F03: controlling the motion platform 501 to place the dispersion lens set 101 above a designated detection position of the optical component 601 to be detected;

[0061] F04: controlling the 1×2 optical switch 106 to gate a light source of the detection laser; and controlling the motion platform 501 to move up and down to focus the detection laser on an upper surface of the optical component 601 to be detected;

[0062] F05: controlling the excitation laser device 112 to generate the excitation laser, and inducing ultrasonic vibration at a focusing position of the excitation laser; and synchronously, recording propagation data of ultrasonic vibration to a surface through the laser interference detection device 201;

[0063] F06: controlling the motion platform 501 to step up and down; alternately gating the wide-spectrum light source 108 and the light source of the detection laser by controlling the 1×2 optical switch 106 at each stepping position; and respectively recording spectrum distribution information of reflected light output by each core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber at a current position through the spectrum detection device 301;

[0064] F07: controlling the motion platform 501 to move in a plane, and checking whether a detection is finished; and when the detection is not finished, moving the optical component to next designated detection position, carrying out related operations in the steps 3, 4, 5 and 6 above, and recording experimental data; and

[0065] F08: analyzing the recorded experimental data, calculating to acquire spatial information of the subsurface defect and identifying a type of the subsurface defect, and evaluating a degree of subsurface damage.

[0066] In the embodiment, in the method for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component, a specific method of focusing the detection laser on the upper surface of the optical component to be detected comprises:

[0067] controlling the platform 501 to move to keep the dispersion lens set 101 far away from the optical component 601 to be detected; stopping moving when the dispersion lens set 101 is obviously far away from a focusing area; controlling the platform 501 to move to make the dispersion lens set 101 close to the optical component 601 to be detected step by step, and recording spectrum distribution information of the central fiber core 102-2 of the visible light multi-core optical fiber; analyzing spectrum distribution information corresponding to each position, finding a position with a maximum amplitude corresponding to the wavelength of the detection laser, and controlling the motion platform 501 to move to the position; and controlling the 1×2 optical switch 106 to gate the wide-spectrum light source 108, acquiring the spectrum distribution information of the central fiber core 102-2 of the visible light multi-core optical fiber, calculating a wavelength corresponding to the position with the maximum amplitude, and calculating a difference between the wavelength and the wavelength of the detection laser, wherein when the difference is within ±15 microns, a focusing position is correct.

[0068] In the embodiment, in the method for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component, a specific method of calculating to acquire the spatial information of the subsurface defect is as shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.

[0069] A number of fiber cores of the visible light multi-core optical fiber is recorded as N, wherein Nis an odd number, the fiber cores are represented as F.sub.1, F.sub.2, F.sub.3 . . . F.sub.n, and the central fiber core of the visible light multi-core optical fiber is recorded as F.sub.m.

[0070] Correlation marking is carried out on the spectrum distribution information obtained in the step F06 with upper and lower positions and a fiber core serial number, and when the fiber core F.sub.n is located at a position z, spectrum distribution information of the detection laser corresponding to the light source of the detection laser is recorded as S.sub.l(z,n), and spectrum distribution information of white light dispersion corresponding to the wide-spectrum light source is recorded as S.sub.W(z,n).

[0071] As shown in FIG. 5, the spectrum distribution information of the white light dispersion of each fiber core of the visible light optical fiber is recorded as A03, and a maximum amplitude of S.sub.w(z,n) is obtained. An optical spectrum A02 of the white light dispersion of the central fiber core F.sub.m of the visible light multi-core optical fiber at the position z is marked as S.sub.w(z,m), and main components of a frequency spectrum of the optical spectrum are composed of peaks A02-1 and A02-2. According to spatial arrangement information of the fiber cores of the visible light optical fiber, the maximum amplitudes above are correspondingly arranged to form an amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-w(z) of an optical field of the white light dispersion recorded as A04. S.sub.w(z,m) corresponding to the central fiber core F.sub.m of the visible light multi-core optical fiber is taken as a benchmark to obtain main component offsets of other fiber cores, and a phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion recorded as A05 corresponding to the position z is constructed. An amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser and a phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser corresponding to the position z are constructed in the same way.

[0072] As shown in FIG. 6, at two adjacent recording positions z and z+Δz in a height direction, a difference operation is carried out on the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser recorded as B01 at the position z and the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z+Δz) of the optical field of the detection laser recorded as B02 at the position z+Δz, and a spatial gradient map I.sub.G-l(z) recorded as B03 in the height direction is constructed. A difference operation is carried out on amplitude distribution diagrams I.sub.A-w(z) and I.sub.A-w(z+Δz) (which are namely B06 and B07 in the drawing) of optical fields of adjacent white light dispersions in a height direction to construct a spatial gradient map I.sub.G-w(z) recorded as B08 in the height direction.

[0073] As shown in FIG. 6, spatial deconvolution is carried out on the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser recorded as B04 and the amplitude distribution diagram I.sub.A-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion recorded as B05, wherein a dependent convolution kernel is a mask image of Gaussian distribution, so as to obtain a reflected light intensity amplitude diagram I.sub.Ap-l(z) of the detection laser recorded as B04 and a reflected light intensity amplitude diagram I.sub.Ap-w(z) of the white light recorded as B09 at the position z.

[0074] Values of the distribution diagrams I.sub.P-l(z), I.sub.P-w(z), I.sub.G-l(z) and I.sub.G-w(z) obtained in the steps above are normalized to (−1, +1). A two-dimensional cross-sectional image B11 of a micro-defect is constructed by using B03, B04, B05, B08, B09 and B10 in FIG. 6 through a formula I.sub.(z)=σI.sub.Ap-l(z)(I.sub.P-l(z).sup.2+I.sub.G-l(z).sup.2)+ρI.sub.Ap-w(z)(I.sub.P-w(z).sup.2+I.sub.G-w(z).sup.2), wherein a value of a is proportional to a reflection coefficient of the optical component to be detected to the detection laser, and a value of ρ is proportional to an absorption coefficient of the optical component to be detected to the excitation laser. Two-dimensional cross-sectional images in all height directions are correspondingly arranged to obtain spatial three-dimensional information B12 of the subsurface defect.

[0075] In the embodiment, in the method for detecting the subsurface defect of the optical component above, a specific method of identifying the type of the subsurface defect comprises:

[0076] using the two-dimensional cross-sectional image I.sub.(z) recorded as B11, the phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-l(z) of the optical field of the detection laser recorded as B05 and the phase distribution diagram I.sub.P-w(z) of the optical field of the white light dispersion recorded as B10 obtained in the processes above as two-dimensional input images, using the propagation data of the ultrasonic vibration to the surface recorded in the step F05 above as a one-dimensional input signal, and carrying out small sample training through a Fast RCNN deep learning algorithm, so as to identify the type of the subsurface defect and realize damage characterization.

[0077] The above embodiment is only a preferred solution of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Those of ordinary skills in the related technical field can further make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, all technical solutions obtained by equivalent substitution or equivalent transformation fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.