Kenneth Buffo, C. DeRoo, P. Reid, V. Kradinov, Vanessa Marquez, S. Trolier-McKinstry, Nathan L. Bishop, T. N. Jackson, Quyen Tran, Hanyuan Liang, Tianning Liu, M. Tendulkar
{"title":"Thin-film PZT actuator performance in adjustable x-ray optic segments","authors":"Kenneth Buffo, C. DeRoo, P. Reid, V. Kradinov, Vanessa Marquez, S. Trolier-McKinstry, Nathan L. Bishop, T. N. Jackson, Quyen Tran, Hanyuan Liang, Tianning Liu, M. Tendulkar","doi":"10.1117/12.2675949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2675949","url":null,"abstract":"Many current outstanding questions in x-ray astronomy were addressed by Lynx, an observatory concept that concluded its study phase in 2019. High-effective area, high angular resolution x-ray missions like Lynx require thin (≤ 0.5 mm thick) mirrors with precise surface figures to maintain high angular resolution (≤ 0.5 arcsec). To study methods of meeting these requirements, adjustable x-ray optics have been fabricated with thin-film piezoelectric actuators to perform figure correction. These adjustable x-ray optics serve to correct low spatial frequency figure errors (⪆ 0.1 mm−1 ). The fabrication and actuator performance for an adjustable x-ray mirror that forms a conical approximation to a Wolter-I telescope are reported. This mirror has a BCB insulating layer with a top level of Ti traces to address its 288 actuator cells. The individual responses of cells are measured and on average they induce a figure change of 0.87 μm Peak-to-Valley (PV) with an associated Root Mean Square (RMS) of 0.10 μm. These measured cell responses are compared to predicted responses generated using a Finite-Element (FEA) analysis algorithm. On average the measured and predicted cell responses agree to within 0.06 μm RMS. The disagreement between predicted and measured cell responses is posited as being due to differences in radial constraints points between the FEA model and the as-built mirror mount.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125152716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Nardo, I. Kuvvetli, D. Ferreira, S. Massahi, F. Christensen
{"title":"X-ray space technology transfer for improved mammography screening","authors":"Francesco Nardo, I. Kuvvetli, D. Ferreira, S. Massahi, F. Christensen","doi":"10.1117/12.2675991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2675991","url":null,"abstract":"Breast imaging using monochromatic x-rays promises lower dose and better image quality relative to conventional approaches. It has been proposed that the use of coated mirrors capable of mono-chromatic x-ray hard spectra have the capability of reducing ionizing radiation exposure while also improving image quality during x-ray medical screening procedures. This research study is centered around screening for breast cancer using Digital Mammography (DM) technique. In this work we present a simplified prototype system developed at DTU Space and implemented to validate the proposed Wolter type I design. The experimental setup consists of a source up to 40 keV, a high-resolution roto-translation mechanical support and an advanced high resolution (55 micron), energy-sensitive Si detector with quantum efficiency (20% @22 keV). For testing, phantom objects will be used as samples, allowing for a real-world realistic assessment of the use of space technology for breast screening. In this work, experimental measurements of absorbed dose reduction and contrast-to-noise ratio are reported.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"383 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123196514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Lucchesi, M. Minuti, A. Nuti, L. Orsini, M. Pinchera, C. Sgro’
{"title":"Advances in gas pixel detectors for x-ray polarimetry: development of the bake and fill system (BFS)","authors":"L. Lucchesi, M. Minuti, A. Nuti, L. Orsini, M. Pinchera, C. Sgro’","doi":"10.1117/12.2676673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676673","url":null,"abstract":"Building on the successful launch and operation of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission,1 the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) has initiated an R&D program to develop the next generation of Gas Pixel Detectors (GPDs) for X-ray polarimetry.2 To support this effort, a Bake and Fill System (BFS) was designed, integrated, and tested. The complex BFS architecture consists of various subsystems, including gas distribution and purification, thermal control, vacuum generation, leak detection and residual gas analysis (RGA), high voltage supply, scientific data acquisition, and x-ray generation (both with passive and active sources). We also implemented remote monitoring and logging of the system status and relevant environmental data. The BFS facility was successfully used to test the detector’s sub-components, fill the GPDs with several gas mixtures at different fill pressures, and conduct functional and performance acceptance tests of the detectors even before their final sealing. The BFS’s successful implementation has demonstrated its potential to support extensive qualification campaigns of detector components, besides being a reliable production facility for flight, sealed GPDs for future space missions in X-ray polarimetry. The development and utilization of the BFS represent an important step towards the production of cutting-edge X-ray polarimeters, which have a wide range of applications in astronomy and astrophysics.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123692116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The arcus operations simulator: a general tool for observation planning","authors":"A. Foster, Stephen M. Walker, Randall K. Smith","doi":"10.1117/12.2677809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677809","url":null,"abstract":"Arcus is a proposed pointed x-ray and UV Probe mission which will observe targets across the sky for extended periods of time. Total observation times for targets range from a few ks to 2 Ms, nearly all of which can be performed in a series of discontinuous exposures throughout the mission. The mission is also designed with a requirement to respond to Target of Opportunity (ToO) triggers within four hours. Arcus will not carry an all-sky monitor, and therefore new commands must be formulated on the ground and uploaded once a ToO trigger is received. We present the Arcus Operations Simulator (OpSim). This consists of the Observation Planning tool (ObsPlan), which will plan (and re-plan) the entire observing mission within minutes, accounting for relevant observatory restrictions, and the ToO tool (ToOT) which automatically rejects or approves ToO triggers, will rapidly notify Mission Operations (MOps), and will trigger ObsPlan to create and transmit an updated observation plan within 20 minutes. This software is modular and easily extensible and therefore may be of use for other pointed missions for creating their own observing plans.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126757028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Hartner, V. Burwitz, T. Müller, S. Rukdee, T. Schmidt, A. Langmeier, K. Dennerl, N. Meidinger
{"title":"Characterization of the x-ray beam at PANTER","authors":"G. Hartner, V. Burwitz, T. Müller, S. Rukdee, T. Schmidt, A. Langmeier, K. Dennerl, N. Meidinger","doi":"10.1117/12.2677498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677498","url":null,"abstract":"The PANTER x-ray test facility of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is used for calibrating x-ray optics, detectors, and telescopes from Europe and around the world. The 130m x-ray beamline is composed of a long vacuum tube (Ø 1 meter) with a point-like x-ray source on one end and a large vacuum test chamber (12-meter-long, Ø 3.5 meter) on the other end. This work describes the characterization of the x-ray source's stability, including the beam's spectral, temporal, and spatial characteristics during long extensive campaigns, such as a flight module calibration. The beam’s energy spectrum and intensity are monitored continuously with a commercial Amptek Silicon-Drift-Detector (SDD) installed inside the vacuum tube at a distance of 35 meters from the x-ray source. The x-ray optic characterization is conducted by measurements with the TRoPIC pnCCD camera, a prototype of MPE’s eROSITA cameras which is located inside the large chamber. We compare the beam measured by the TRoPIC camera and SDD throughout a long observing time and discuss the correlation of the results and the method of how to derive the beam intensity at any given point in time as measured by TRoPIC. The beam characterization in terms of x-ray source stability and spectral characteristics is performed at relevant energies in the 0.1 to 11 keV range.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121323908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D profile measurements using 2D fringe projections in the tele-centric system","authors":"W. Su, Zhi-Hsiang Liu","doi":"10.1117/12.2677320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677320","url":null,"abstract":"A 2D fringe pattern is presented for projected fringe profilometry in the tele-centric system. Compared with the methods which embeds multiple frequencies in one pattern, the proposed one-shot method is more tolerant to low signal-to-noise ratios and more reliable for surface with large color or reflectance variation.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134058925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Error-controlled decoding in phase unwrapping for phase-shifting projected fringe profilometry","authors":"W. Su, Pei-Chi Li, Sih-Yue Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.2677314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677314","url":null,"abstract":"A phase unwrapping method using the error-controlled fringe projection scheme for phase-shifting projected fringe profilometry is presented. Most unwrapping methods cannot cope with the problems caused by low signal-to-noise ratios. The presenting method can detect such kind of errors and recover the mistake.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124096262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phase-shifting projected fringe profilometry using the pulsed phase-encoding algorithm","authors":"Ching-Cherng Sun, Y. Yu, W. Su","doi":"10.1117/12.2677321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677321","url":null,"abstract":"A phase unwrapping method using the phase-encoded algorithm for phase-shifting projected fringe profilometry is presented. There is no need to take additional projections for phase unwrapping. The patterns used to perform the phase-extraction can be employed for unwrapping directly.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125664412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Chen, Hammid Al-Ghezi, P. Banerjee, M. Rumi, Lirong Sun, Peter R. Stevenson, J. Slagle
{"title":"Application of dispersion relations for prediction of frequency response of multilayer metallo-dielectric structures","authors":"G. Chen, Hammid Al-Ghezi, P. Banerjee, M. Rumi, Lirong Sun, Peter R. Stevenson, J. Slagle","doi":"10.1117/12.2685092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2685092","url":null,"abstract":"We show applications of our analytical approach to predict the performance of multilayer metallo-dielectric bandpass filters, which also enables estimation of their effective permittivity without relying on homogenization techniques. The approach is based on the one-dimensional dispersion relation for an infinite metallo-dielectric structure that accounts for the complex nature of the permittivities for the metal and dielectric constituents. The dispersion relation clearly reveals the band structure (often comprising multiple passbands), directly provides transmittance characteristics such as center wavelengths and bandwidths and enables the calculation of effective propagation constant and effective attenuation. In this work, we evaluate the dispersion relations for metallo-dielectric structures with complex refractive index data for the metal, viz., Ag, acquired from different sources to show the differences in the center wavelength and the cutoff wavelengths. We verify the accuracy of our method numerically by comparing the transmittance spectrum of finite metallo-dielectric structures using the transfer matrix method. We also plot the dispersion relation using Al as the metal and show the differences in the dispersion relations of the infinite structure and the transmittances of the finite structures relative to Ag. Extension to determination of dispersion relations for other polarizations, viz., transverse magnetic, is discussed, along with corresponding transmittance spectra for oblique incidence.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124661060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Lin, Wei-Chia Su, S. Zhou, Yuan-Yan Liang, Ching-Cherng Sun
{"title":"Expanded FOV in Maxwellian-view display based on volume holographic light-guide","authors":"W. Lin, Wei-Chia Su, S. Zhou, Yuan-Yan Liang, Ching-Cherng Sun","doi":"10.1117/12.2676733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676733","url":null,"abstract":"We proposed a Maxwellian-view display based on Volume Holographic Optical Element (VHOE) and light-guide for see-through Head-Mounted Display (HMD) system. The diffractive light-guide is advantageous because of compact construction that leads to smaller and lighter devices. Furthermore, the advantage of VHOEs lies in their potential to achieve reducing energy loss and increasing battery endurance, owing to the higher diffraction efficiency. The Maxwellian-view display is unique because the image quality is almost not affected by the observer's focus distance or the diopter of their pupils. The proposed system utilizes a VHOE with linear grating as the in-coupling device and a VHOE with convex lens function as the out-coupling. In order to achieve a high Field of View (FOV), a prefabricated holographic lens with a high Numerical Aperture (NA) was utilized to record the out-coupling. The proposed device achieved the diagonal FOV as 50°. In this study, the detailed fabrication method of the holographic light-guide based on VOHEs was presented. Furthermore, the design method in order to improve image quality was also proposed. The optical simulation for determining image quality and optimizing was achieved based on the ray tracing method. In this case, astigmatism aberration caused by the diffractive light-guide degraded the image quality. Therefore, a cylindrical lens is necessary if the compensation of astigmatism is desired.","PeriodicalId":434863,"journal":{"name":"Optical Engineering + Applications","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121170384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}