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US 12,613,090 B2Granted
Apparatus of vision chromatic confocal sensor based on a geometrical phase lens
AssigneesIndustry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University, neXensor Inc.
InventorsKi Nam Joo, Hyo Mi Park, Ui Hyeok Kwon, Joon Ho You
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a chromatic confocal sensor based on a geometrical phase lens, and provides a chromatic confocal sensor that can confirm a height of a specimen and a location of a height measurement point through a configuration of a simple device.
Claims8
An apparatus of a vision chromatic confocal sensor, comprising:
- a light source unit generating incident light;
- an optical circulator receiving the incident light from the light source unit;
- a light conversion unit including a geometrical phase lens, and modulating the incident light received from the optical circulator and emitting incident light in which chromatic aberration is expressed to a specimen, and receiving reflected light reflected from the specimen;
- a stage at which the specimen to which the incident light emitted from the light conversion unit is irradiated is located;
- a beam splitter splitting the reflected light reflected by the specimen;
- a measurement unit detects the reflected light transmitted through the beam splitter and received by the light conversion unit;
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- a monitoring unit detecting the reflected light reflected by the beam splitter,
- wherein the measurement unit includes
- a collimating lens modulating the incident light received from the optical circulator into parallel light,
- a geometrical phase lens disposed at a rear stage from the collimating lens along a progress path of the incident light, and
- a first phase retardation plate disposed behind the geometrical phase lens along the progress path of the incident light.
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An apparatus of a vision chromatic confocal sensor, comprising:
- a light source unit generating incident light;
- an optical circulator receiving the incident light from the light source unit;
- a light conversion unit including a geometrical phase lens, and modulating the incident light received from the optical circulator and emitting incident light in which chromatic aberration is expressed to a specimen, and receiving reflected light reflected from the specimen;
- a stage at which the specimen to which the incident light emitted from the light conversion unit is irradiated is located;
- a beam splitter splitting the reflected light reflected by the specimen;
- a measurement unit detects the reflected light transmitted through the beam splitter and received by the light conversion unit;
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- a monitoring unit detecting the reflected light reflected by the beam splitter
- wherein the monitoring unit includes
- a second phase retardation plate accommodating the reflected light reflected by the beam splitter,
- a linear polarizer disposed behind the second phase retardation plate along a progress path of the reflected light, and
- an imaging lens disposed behind the linear polarizer along the progress path of the reflected light.
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