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WaveMe’s Evolution: Tools and Techniques for Peak Performance
WaveMe Toolbox: Enhancing Optical Metrology and Empowering Users The WaveMe toolbox exemplifies several core principles that I hold in high regard: advancing optical metrology, getting the most from standard equipment, and offering users more control over their tools. A recent development further underlines our commitment to these principles. WaveMe is flexible as it allows users…
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Introduction to Goodman’s Graphical Methods
This blog post will be the first of three about the appliation of Goodman’s graphical methods and partially coherent illumination with focus on its application to spatial light modulators. This introduction will start at a point before Goodman’s paper and end just about where his paper begins. Hopefully, it will serve as an introduction to…
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WaveMe Toolbox: The Phase-Shifting and Trigger Tools
As as warm-up for the release of the WaveMe product, a first short video of the software has been made public. This software, although still alpha, should give a hint what the WaveMe product is all about. This demo uses prerecorded images but contains all necessary synchronization to perform the phase-shifting measurement. The Blender image…
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Is this the right base for your system?
The Zernike polynomials, we all recognize them and they are the language we often talk when we describe optical systems. But are they always the right language? Is there a wrong language? Eventually, we would try to push a design to zero so it doesn’t matter. But hey, zero, that would be like saying nothing.…
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Boötes void – No, this is not about astronomy
For those not into astronomy, Boötes void is a patch in the night sky seeming void of stars, but this little rant is about a blind spot in education the education of engineers. In my soon two and a half-decade in the industry, I have met exactly one person who knew about this mathematical/numerical gem,…
Category: Methods
Methods and mathematics