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Optics and AcousticsOptical Detection and Detectors

Method and Apparatus for Evaluating the Optical Spatial Response Characteristics of Objects.

Authors: Michael J. Marchywka; Dennis G. Socker; DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for optically testing an object, such as an optical detector whose pitels are an array of optically sensitive charged coupled devices. Two mutually coherent beams of light are interfered on the object to form an interference fringe pattern of sinusoidally varying intensity of preselected spatial frequency. The object's response at this spatial frequency is used to determine one point of the object's modulation transfer function at that frequency. This is preferably done by using the device's output to infer the coherence function of the fringe pattern, taking the Fourier transform of the coherence function, and determining the amplitude of the function at the spatial frequency of the fringe pattern. The process can be repeated for different spatial frequencies until one determines the entire modulation transfer function. (MM)

Description: Patent, Filed 8 Jun 92, patented 25 Oct 94
Pages: 4
Report Date: 25 OCT 1994
Report Number: D092710

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Keywords relating to this report:
BEAM FORMING
FOURIER TRANSFORMATION
LASER BEAMS
MIRRORS
OPTICAL DETECTORS
OPTICAL FILTERSZ
OPTICAL FILTERSZBEAM FORMING
PATENTS
PATTERN RECOGNITION
PIXELS
REFLECTION
TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
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