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Analyzing Coupled Systems
Designing new optical systems from the ground up can be an intimidating task, especially if the system we are trying to make is one that we must get right before anything can be built because the critical components simply do not yet exist. It’s merely a figment of our imagination and it is actually part…
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WaveMe for Optical Alignment: The BeamNotes Tool
Introduction In the realm of optical engineering, achieving precise alignment between the optical elements within a system is crucial to ensuring optimal performance. This alignment is especially critical in compact optical systems like microscope lenses or other high-end optics. There are some well known brands here like Zeiss, Leica, Nikon or Tropel. They know what…
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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.…
Category: Methods
Methods and mathematics