Recent developments in fiber optic spectral white-light interferometry

Recent Developments in Micro-Structured Fiber Optic Sensors

Recent developments in fiber-optic sensing have involved booming research in the design and manufacturing of novel micro-structured optical fiber devices. From the conventional tapered fiber architectures to the novel micro-machined devices by advanced laser systems, thousands of micro-structured fiber-optic sensors have been proposed and fabricated for applications in measuring temperature, st...

Recent Developments in Homodyne Interferometry

Continuing developments in homodyne laser interferometer systems [1] are improving both their measurement performance capability and their ease of installation. This paper gives an overview of such a system and explains several of the key design features. Firstly, an overview of the optical detection scheme is given. Secondly, a novel method for improving the Sub Divisional Error (SDE) in a Col...

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White Light Spectral Interferometry for Real-time Surface Profile Measurement

This paper presents a high speed surface profile optical measurement technique based on white light spectral interferometry and parallel signal processing using a general purpose graphic processing unit (GPGPU). A white light source is used to acquire the surface profile of the sample instantly in real time through a cylindrical Michelson interferometer. The interference signals are resolved by...

Spectral Estimation of Stationary Time Series: Recent Developments

Spectral analysis considers the problem of determining (the art of recovering) the spectral content (i.e., the distribution of power over frequency) of a stationary time series from a finite set of measurements, by means of either nonparametric or parametric techniques. This paper introduces the spectral analysis problem, motivates the definition of power spectral density functions, and reviews...