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Optimized Working Distance of a Micro-optic OCT Imaging Probe

  • Kim, Da-Seul;Moon, Sucbei
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • 제4권4호
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    • pp.330-335
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    • 2020
  • We have investigated optimization of the working distance (WD) for a highly miniaturized imaging probe for endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). The WD is the axial distance from the distal end of the imaging probe to its beam focus, which is demanded for dimensional margins of protective structures, operational safety, or full utilization of the axial imaging range of OCT. With an objective lens smaller than a few hundred micrometers in diameter, a micro-optic imaging probe naturally exhibits a very short WD due to the down-scaled optical structure. For a maximized WD careful design is required with the optical aperture of the objective lens optimally filled by the incident beam. The diffraction-involved effect was taken into account in our analysis of the apertured beam. In this study, we developed a simple design formula on the maximum achievable WD based on our diffraction simulation. It was found that the maximum WD is proportional to the aperture size squared. In experiment, we designed and fabricated very compact OCT probes with long WDs. Our 165-㎛-thick fiber-optic probes provided WDs of 3 mm or longer w ith reasonable OCT imaging performance.

Measurement of Focal Length for Off-axis Optical Systems

  • Choe, Se-woon;Ryu, Jaemyung
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • 제5권4호
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    • pp.402-408
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    • 2021
  • An off-axis system refers to an optical system in which the optical axis and normal vector at the vertex of each surface do not match. The most important specification in an optical system is its focal length. Among the various methods for measuring the focal length, the most suitable method for the off-axis system is the method that adopts magnification. However, head-mounted display (HMD) optics must be measured while considering the virtual image distance, which is not infinity owing to product characteristics. For the virtual image distance, a camera with a focusing function was used. By measuring HMD optics via this magnification method, the error generated in this measurement was 0.68% of the HMD's focal length, which is within the 1%-3% range of the conventionally permitted design error for the focal length allowed at the optical design stage. Therefore, it can be verified that the measurement accuracy of the method proposed in this study is sufficiently feasible in practice.

Effective Periodic Poling in Optical Fibers

  • Kim, Jong-Bae;Ju, Jung-Jin;Kim, Min-Su;Seo, Hong-Seok
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 2004
  • The distributions of electric field and induced second-order nonlinearity are analyzed in the periodic poling of optical fibers. A quasi-phase matching efficiency for the induced nonlinearity is calculated in terms of both the electrode separation distance between the applied voltage and generalized electrode width for the periodic poling. Our analysis of the quasi-phase matching efficiency implies that the conversion efficiency can be enhanced through adjusting the separation distance, and the electrode width can be maximized if the electrode width is optimized.

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Adjustment of Stereoscopic Camera's Optical Axis Distance Considering Human Stereopsis Characteristics (인간의 입체시 특성을 고려한 입체 카메라의 광축 간격 조절)

  • Hyung, Sae-Chan;Chun, Kook-Jin;Har, Dong-Hwan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • 제11권5호
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2011
  • Recently, the infrastructure of stereoscopy is growing fast. Though, the stereoscopy producing capacity is insufficient to meet the demand of the market. Because, at the moment most people who produce the stereoscopy are skilled for the two-dimensional images. So the characteristics of the human stereopsis and stereoscopic cameras are not well considered, it occurs many problems to the viewer. According to this, we studied about the optical axis distance adjustment of stereoscopic camera considering size perception in human stereopsis. First, we measured the area of the object in the image which depends on the optical axis distance. Second, based on the output of first experiment, we conducted a survey and figured out that if we keep the optical axis distance between 3.9cm to 130cm, it wouldn't occur any size perception and will be possible to produce high quality stereoscopy.

Polarization Properties of Quasi-Homogeneous Beams Propagating in Oceanic Turbulence

  • Chen, Feinan;Zhao, Qi;Chen, Yanru;Chen, Jingjing
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 2013
  • Based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and generalized Stokes theory, the evolution of polarization properties of beams generated by quasi-homogenous (QH) sources propagating in clear oceanic water was studied by the use of the oceanic turbulence spatial spectrum function. The results show that the beams have similar polarization self-reconstructed behavior under different turbulence conditions in the far field, but if the propagation distance is not long enough, the degree of polarization (DOP) fluctuates with much more complexity than state of polarization (SOP) of QH beams. The self-reconstructed ability of DOP at the special distance in turbulence would get to the best value if the values of coherence of width were chosen suitably, but for SOP, it has no best value.

Curvature Linear Equation of a Coma Corrected Two-Mirror System with Finite Object Distance (유한 물체거리를 갖는 코마수차가 보정된 2 반사경계의 곡률선형방정식)

  • Hwang, Seok-Ju;Rim, Cheon-Seog;Jo, Jae-Heung
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 2007
  • We derived analytically the generalized curvature linear equation useful in the initial optical design of a two-mirror system with finite object distance, including an infinite object distance from paraxial ray tracing and Seidel third order aberration theory for coma coefficient. These aberration coefficients for finite object distance were described by the curvature, the inter-mirror distance, and the effective focal length. The analytical equations were solved by using a computer with a numerical analysis method. Two useful linear relationships, determined by the generalized curvature linear equations relating the curvatures of the two mirrors, for the cancellation of each aberration were shown in the numerical solutions satisfying the nearly zero condition ($<10^{-10}$) for each aberration coefficient. These equations can be utilized easily and efficiently at the step of initial optical design of a two-mirror system with finite object distance.