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- Title
Extended-Aperture Shape Measurements Using Spatially Partially Coherent Illumination (ExASPICE).
- Authors
Agour, Mostafa; Falldorf, Claas; Bergmann, Ralf B.
- Abstract
We have recently demonstrated that the 3D shape of micro-parts can be measured using LED illumination based on speckle contrast evaluation in the recently developed SPICE profilometry (shape measurements based on imaging with spatially partially coherent illumination). The main advantage of SPICE is its improved robustness and measurement speed compared to confocal or white light interferometry. The limited spatial coherence of the LED illumination is used for depth discrimination. An electrically tunable lens in a 4 f -configuration is used for fast depth scanning without mechanically moving parts. The approach is efficient, takes less than a second to capture required images, is eye-safe and offers a depth of focus of a few millimeters. However, SPICE's main limitation is its assumption of a small illumination aperture. Such a small illumination aperture affects the axial scan resolution, which dominates the measurement uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a novel method to overcome the aperture angle limitation of SPICE by illuminating the object from different directions with several independent LED sources. This approach reduces the full width at half maximum of the contrast envelope to one-eighth, resulting in a twofold improvement in measurement accuracy. As a proof of concept, shape measurements of various metal objects are presented.
- Subjects
SHAPE measurement; LED lighting; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHTING; SPECKLE interference; SPEED measurements
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 10, p3072
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s24103072