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Spherical aberration

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The main strengthening mechanism for Inconel 718 (IN718), a Ni-based superalloy, is precipitation hardening by gamma ' and gamma '' particles. It is thus essential, for good alloy performance, that precipitates with the desired chemical composition have ad ...

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TOCOSMO VIII. A key test of systematics in the hierarchical method of time-delay cosmography

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The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of H-0. A Bayesian hierarchical framework has been propo ...

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Adaptive optics enables multimode 3D super-resolution microscopy via remote focusing

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer

A variety of modern super-resolution micro-scopy methods provide researchers with previouslyinconceivable biological sample imaging opportunities ata molecular resolution. All of these techniques excel atimaging samples that are close to the coverslip, how ...

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Method and system for generating a three-dimensional model based on spherical photogrammetry

Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-André Mudry, Nils Hamel, Albane Bénédicte Descombes

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ON WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS IN ASYMMETRIC AND MULTIPLE APERTURE OPTICAL SYSTEMS

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The present work deals with monochromatic wavefront aberrations in optical systems without symmetries. The treatment begins with a class of systems characterized by misaligned spherical surfaces whose behavior is analyzed using the wavefront aberration exp ...

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On the Complete Radiation Pattern of a Vertical Hertzian Dipole Above a Low-Loss Ground

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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2021

Three-Dimensional Optical Diffraction Tomography With Lippmann-Schwinger Model

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Emmanuel Emilien Louis Soubies, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Joowon Lim, Ahmed Bassam Sayed Ayoub Mohamed Emam

A broad class of imaging modalities involve the resolution of an inverse-scattering problem. Among them, three-dimensional optical diffraction tomography (ODT) comes with its own challenges. These include a limited range of views, a large size of the sampl ...

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Adaptive Regularization For Three-Dimensional Optical Diffraction Tomography

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Emmanuel Emilien Louis Soubies, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Ahmed Bassam Sayed Ayoub Mohamed Emam

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) allows one to quantitatively measure the distribution of the refractive index of the sample. It relies on the resolution of an inverse scattering problem. Due to the limited range of views as well as optical aberrations ...

IEEE2020

Lens aberration compensation in interference microscopy

Yves Bellouard, Jakub Drs

Emergence of products that feature functional surfaces with complex geometries, such as freeform optics in consumer electronics and augmented reality and virtual reality, requires high-accuracy non-contact surface measurement. However, large discrepancies ...

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Full field dependence of primary aberrations in perturbed double-plane symmetric systems with a circular pupil

Toralf Scharf, Alessandro Grosso

This paper deals with the theory of primary aberrations for perturbed double-plane symmetric optical systems consisting of a combination of tilted and decentered surfaces and a circular pupil. First, the analytical expressions describing the full field beh ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

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This letter proposes the application of a hybrid numerical technique to two cases of interest in the space business: the reallocation of radiators and scatters on satellite platforms; and the analysis of antennas for mobile communications. It is based on t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Correction of spherical surface measurements by confocal microscopy

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses are nowadays widely used in optical systems. Characterizing their surface is essential to ensure their quality and to optimize their fabrication process. This is realized by optical surface profilers thanks to their vertical resoluti ...

IOP Publishing2020

Laser engraving device for multiple laser beams

Andreas Schueler, Luc Burnier

The present invention concerns a laser engraving device (1) for engraving a target surface (17). The laser engraving device (1) comprises: a beam splitter (7) for dividing a processing laser beam (25) into a plurality of engraving laser beams (27); a first ...

2020

Specification of aspherical surfaces used as refractive elements in micro-optical systems

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

The optical performance of refractive plano-convex microlenses is mainly related to the quality of their (a)spherical surface. An efficient tolerancing of this surface is a key step towards the manufacturing of high quality microlenses. However, we demonst ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Graph-Based Detection of Seams In 360-Degree Images

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In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect a specific kind of distortions, referred to as seams, which commonly occur when a 360-degree image is represented in planar domain by projecting the sphere to a polyhedron, e.g, via the Cube Map (CM) project ...

2019

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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) offers an ample range of complementary techniques which are able to provide essential information about the physical, chemical and structural properties of materials at the atomic scale, and hence makes a vast impact ...

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Assessing microlens quality based on 3D irradiance measurement at the focal spot area

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During the fabrication process of microlenses, characterization is essential for two purposes: evaluate the optical quality of the element and provide surface information feedback for process optimization. However, no technique can fulfill these two object ...

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Back-Propagating the Light of Field Stars to Probe Telescope Mirrors Aberrations

Michaël Unser, Frédéric Courbin, Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez

We propose a wavefront-based method to estimate the PSF over the whole field of view. This method estimate the aberrations of all the mirrors of the telescope using only field stars. In this proof of concept paper, we described the method and present some ...

SPIE2016