Abstract:
A two dimensional spatial radiation modulator rotated about a rotation axis to modulate components of an incident radiation beam to encode the beam. The modulator includes sub-regions in a first annular segment being patterned to form a pair of radiation filters having substantially complementary modulation functions. The pair of radiation filters produces a first encoded component with a characteristic determined by the relative intensities of radiation from the beam incident on the pair of filters. The modulator also includes sub-regions in a second annular segment being patterned to form a filter that produces a second encoded component with a characteristic determined by the total intensity of radiation from the beam incident on the filter.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for analyzing radiation using analyzers and encoders employing the spatial modulation of radiation dispersed by wavelength or imaged along a line.
Abstract:
A method for estimating a property of a fluid downhole is disclosed, the method including but not limited to exposing the fluid to light downhole; directing different wavelengths of light that have interacted with the fluid light toward a first optical grating; measuring light at different wavelengths reflected from the first optical grating; and estimating a property of the fluid from the measured light. An apparatus for estimating a property of a fluid downhole is disclosed, the apparatus including but not limited to a downhole tool for estimating a property of a fluid downhole, including but not limited to a light source that illuminates the fluid downhole; a first optical grating having a plurality of elements that selectively light that have interacted with the fluid; and a sensor that measures the light reflected from the first optical grating elements.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for spectral imaging. Electromagnetic energy emanating from an object is passed through a first dispersive element, a coded aperture, and a second dispersive element to a detector plane. A wavelength-dependent shift is created by the first dispersive element. The coded aperture modulates the image emanating from the first dispersive element. The wavelength-dependent shift is removed from the modulated image by the second dispersive element producing a wavelength-independent image measured by the detector. A spectral image of the object is calculated from the measured image, a wavelength-dependent shift of the first dispersive element, the code of the coded aperture, and a wavelength dependent shift of the second dispersive element. A spectral image can be calculated from measurements obtained in a single time step and from a number of measurements that is less than the number of elements in the spectral image.
Abstract:
A spectral measurement device comprising an entrance aperture for receiving an electromagnetic energy and a mask located at the entrance aperture in the form of a two-dimensional encodement pattern. An optical element conditions the electromagnetic energy received from the mask for presentation to the spectral dispersion element and the and a spectral dispersion element disperses the electromagnetic energy in one or more dimensions. Additionally, the optical element conditions the dispersed electromagnetic energy onto an array of detector elements.
Abstract:
An infrared spectrometer is described wherein a detector array is optically coupled to a slab waveguide structure. A focal plane is provided outside of the output face of the slab waveguide structure and the detector array is mounted onto the slab waveguide structure at a fixed distance from the output face on the output focal plane.
Abstract:
Methods and apparati for spatially encoding and decoding spread spectrum communication signals using broad band light sources are disclosed. The encoding algorithms involve the use of orthogonal spatial wavelets, which are preferably discrete attenuation functions of light from different sources so that the discrete attenuation function is imposed upon the spectrum of the light source. The function may be used either merely for providing an encoded channel or by providing a second mask that may be, for example, the complement of the discrete attenuation function so that the light beam is discrete with the first attenuation function.
Abstract:
An apparatus for spectral detection of remote objects. The apparatus consists of an input optic which focuses the field of view onto an image receiving surface consisting of an addressable spatial mask. The mask sequentially projects portions of the scene onto a diffractive optical element which focuses onto a photodetector array. The first image receiving surface of mask is partitioned into independently addressable and controllable subsurfaces, or gates, adapted to receive an electronic control signal from a programmable control signal generator. Each gate in the receiving mask directs a portion of the image incident thereon to a diffractive lens in response to a control signal communicated thereto. This gated image is dispersed by the diffractive lens and focused upon the photosensitive surface of a photodetector array. The photodetector array is partitioned into pixels having a number in ratio to the gates in the addressable mask. The signal output of a pixel within the optical path of the dispersed gated light is sampled and stored in a signal processor. A control signal generator sequentially or randomly addresses each gate in the mask causing the gate to direct that portion of the image thereon to the diffractive lens. The output signal from each pixel on the photodetector array corresponding to the addressed gate in the mask is sampled and stored until the entire image is recorded. This process is repeated as the diffractive optic is scanned through the spectral range of interest. The mask provides enhanced spectral and spatial resolution of the scene.
Abstract:
Spectrometer for the analysis of a polychromatic radiation flux which comprises, in a plane, a single radiation-conveying window having two multiplicities of alternating zones with different conveying characters for the radiation flux to be analyzed and such that the pattern of the zone boundaries has an axis of symmetry in that plane and a center of symmetry, the spectrometer also comprising an image-forming apparatus made up of a dispersive system having a spectrum-scanning movement and a collimating system, a receiver for the radiation flux, and means to modulate the radiation flux. The pattern of the zone boundaries and the image-forming apparatus are such that this apparatus casts, in the plane of the single window, a plurality of monochromatic enantiomorphous images of the window provided respectively by the monochromatic radiations constituting the flux to be analyzed, the center of one of these images being, for each position of the dispersive system, coincident with the center of the window.