Built-in hyperspectral camera for smartphone in visible, near-infrared and middle-infrared lights region (first report): trial products of beans-size Fourier-spectroscopic line-imager and feasibility experimental results of middle-infrared spectroscopic imaging

We had already proposed and reported the little-finger size hyperspectral-camera that was able to be applied to visible and infrared lights. The proposed method has been expected to be mounted on smartphones for healthcare sensors, and unmanned air vehicles such as drones for antiterrorism measures or environmental measurements. In this report, we will mention the trial product of the thumb size apparatus whose lens diameter was 5[mm]. The proposed Fourier spectroscopic imager is a kind of wavefront-division and common-path phase-shift interferometers. We installed the relative inclined phase-shifter onto optical Fourier transform plane of infinity corrected optical systems. The infinity corrected optical systems was configured with an objective lens and a cylindrical imaging lens. The relative inclined phase-shifter, what was made from a thin glass less than 0.3[mm] thick, had the wedge-prism and cuboid-glass region, because half surface of a thin glass was polished at an oblique angle of around 1[deg.]. The collimated half flux of objective beams derived from single-bright points on objective surface penetrate through the wedge prism and the cuboid glass respectively. These two beams are interfered each other and form the infererogram as spatial fringe patterns. In this case, the horizontal axis on 2-dimensional light receiving device is assigned to the amount of phase-shift. And also the vertical axis is assigned to the imaging coordinates on a line view field. Thus, by installing thin phase-shifter onto optical Fourier transform plane, the line spectroscopic imager, what obtains 1 dimensional spectral character distributions, were able to be realized.