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Small Satellites: The Desire for a Mass Producible, Mass Customizable Nanosatellite

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JM1A.4
• OSA Technical Digest (online)
• Helvajian, Henry
• Small satellites played a key role at the dawn of the Space Age. It could very well be the case that their progeny will pave the way for satellites of...

Collaborative work within Optical Engineering: Ethnography and curricular development

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.1
• OSA Technical Digest (online)
• Lanclos, Donna M; Ferrara, Angela M; Davies, Matthew A; Evans, Chris J; Suleski, Thomas J
• Ethnographic research is used to reveal the nature of collaborative optical engineering work between team members of different backgrounds. Observations in an academic environment are...

Quality assessment of precision optical surfaces through light scattering techniques

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.10
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• Schröder, Sven; von Finck, Alexander; Herffurth, Tobias; Duparré, Angela
• Light scattering methods are extremely capable for the characterization of optical surfaces. This will be demonstrated for different applications ranging from anisotropic...

Birefringence Dispersion Measured by Low-coherence Spectral Interferometry Using a Spectrophotometer

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.11
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• Han, Zhigang; Chen, Lei; Xu, Zhi
• Transmittance spectral interferograms were obtained to understand the birefringence dispersion of quartz crystal with fast axis orientation unknown. The interferograms have uniform...

Physical, Structural, and Optical Changes in Infrared Glasses as Prepared by Precision Glass Molding (PGM)

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.12
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• Gleason, Benn; Wachtel, Peter; Musgraves, J David; Richardson, Kathleen A
• The physical, structural, and optical properties of Schott IG5 were quantified and compared prior to and following precision glass molding.

Appling Ronchi test to evaluate local and global surface errors without both approximations and integration

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.13
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• Cordero-Davila, Alberto; Kantún-Montiel, Juana Rosaura; González-García, Jorge
• A new method to evaluate local and global errors on freeform surfaces is reported. The experimental birronchigram image is reproduced by simulating birronchigrams images. We do not use...

Polarization sensitivity allows novel sensing opportunities in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.17
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• Castro Camus, Enrique
• The introduction of novel polarization-sensitive photoconductive sensors has considerably broadened the information that can be obtained in single-scan time-domain spectroscopy...

Measurement and Analysis for Biological Tissue from a Ring-scanning-based NIR Optical Imaging System

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.19
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• Pan, Min-Cheng; Chen, Liang-Yu; Yu, Jhao-Ming; Chiang, Hung-Chih; Ciou, Jian-Jhong; Pan, Min-Chun; Sun, Sheng-Yih; Chou, Chia-Cheng; Hsu, Ya-Fen
• System verification and the reconstructed optical-property images of breast-like phantoms and biological tissue are presented using a ring-scanning-based imaging system of...

UFF Belt Characterization

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.2
• OSA Technical Digest (online)
• Katz, Philip; Lynch, Timothy; Magill, Alexander; Maag-Tanchack, Jakob; Ellis, Jonathan D
• Research was conducted on the belts used in OptiPro’s UltraForm Finishing (UFF) system to better understand the fundamental mechanics of wear and material removal rates during...

Design and Comparison for a Ring-scanning-based NIR Optical Imaging System

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.21
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• Yu, Jhao-Ming; Chen, Liang-Yu; Pan, Min-Chun; Chiang, Hung-Chih; Pan, Min-Cheng; Sun, Sheng-Yih; Chou, Chia-Cheng; Hsu, Ya-Fen
• Comparison is made among several different imaging configurations in order to evaluate how the source-and-detector arrangement affects the resulting image. Results show that the 3Z1S...

An Estimation Theoretic Framework for Structured Illumination Microscopy

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.23
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• Stoker, David; Matlin, Erik
• We propose an estimation theoretic framework for Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM). Simulation results suggest that SIM can be made less susceptible to noise and illumination...

Ringing Reduction for Radially Restored Images

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.24
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• Zhang, Yupeng; Ueda, Toshitsugu
• This paper demonstrates a ringing reduction method for radially restored images, whose blurred versions are produced by a spherical single lens imaging system (SSLIS) embedded in an...

Quasi-optical Terahertz Devices

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.25
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• Scherger, Benedikt; Koch, Martin
• We present a collection of new low cost quasi-optical terahertz (THz) devices. Including wave plates made from ordinary copy paper, lenses made from micro powders and liquid filled...

Parallel Shot Noise Reduction of Phase Reconstruction in Digital Holographic Microscopy

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.26
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• bryanh@cs nuim ie, Bryan Hennelly; Healy, John J
• Digital Holographic Microscopy enables capture of quantitative phase images.With low exposure time the phase is significantly effected with a noise preventing efficient unwrapping. We...

A High Magnification Light-Field Telescope for Extended Depth-of-Field Biometric Imaging

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.27
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• Stoker, David; Wedd, Jonathan
• We developed a light field telescope to simultaneously increase magnification and depth-of-field for biometric applications at large (>20 m) standoff distance. We discuss infrared...

Improving Layered 3D Displays with a Lens

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.29
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• Muenzel, Stefan; Waller, Laura; Fleischer, Jason W
• We enhance layered 3D displays using a lens placed in front of or in between attenuation layers, which improves resolution or field-of-view of the display. In addition, we...

Nano-Structured Optics for Surface Metrology Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.3
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• Griesmann, Ulf; Wang, Quandou; Soons, Johannes
• Metrology holograms are critical for interferometric testing of precision aspheric and free-form surfaces with low uncertainty. We describe a new facility for fabrication and research...

3-Point LPG with High Temperature Sensitivity

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.31
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• Lopes, Paulo; Simões, Pedro; Ferreira, Mario F S
• We report the fabrication of 3-point only Long Period Gratings (LPG) with a CO2 Laser. Using a high precision translational system, short LPG are obtained, while keeping good sensing...

Step-height measurement by low-coherence interferometry based on wavelet transform

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.4
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• Suzuki, Takamasa; Atsumi, Satoshi; Sasaki, Osami; Choi, Samuel
• This study proposes low-coherence interferometry based on wavelet transform. This method can simultaneously detect the peak position and frequency of a signal. The use of this method...

Optical Testing Applied to a 6.5-Meter Mirror

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• Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT) 2012 paper: JTu5A.6
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• Izazaga Pérez, Rafael; Granados-Agustin, Fermin S; Percino-Zacarias, Ma Elizabeth; Carrasco-Licea, Esperanza
• We present an optical testing method for the fabrication of a hyperbolic mirror of 6.5-m diameter using a small aperture interferometer. A conic that best fits an off-axis conic...