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Ultrafast Three-Dimensional Surface Imaging Based on Short-Time Fourier Transform
- Source :
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 27:2264-2267
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015.
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Abstract
- A novel approach to achieving ultrafast three-dimensional (3-D) imaging based on space-to-wavelength-to-time mapping and short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The fundamental concept to achieve 3-D imaging is to encode the depth information of a sample by interfering two delayed pulses that are reflected from the surface of the sample and an additional reference plane on the top of the sample. The interference pattern that contains the depth information in the frequency domain is converted into the time domain based on dispersive Fourier transform and then analyzed based on STFT. Thus, ultrafast 3-D imaging is achieved. The proposed approach is experimentally evaluated. The imaging of a sample with a depth of 1.5 mm using an ultrafast pulse laser source with a beam width of $\sim 2$ mm at a repetition rate of 48.8 MHz is demonstrated.
- Subjects :
- Beam diameter
Materials science
business.industry
Short-time Fourier transform
Pulse sequence
Interference (wave propagation)
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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Fourier transform
Optics
Frequency domain
symbols
Time domain
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Ultrashort pulse
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19410174 and 10411135
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5d087b2734a21917d062a6838feaf62b