TY - GEN
T1 - Optical design and testing of a remote microscope
AU - Nowicki, Keith
AU - Wagner, Kelvin H.
AU - Feldkhun, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/5
Y1 - 2015/6/5
N2 - Microscopic imaging systems currently used on planetary exploration rovers operate over a short range, are dependent on ambient lighting and have a constrained depth of field requiring image stacking and increasing the data download requirement. The Structured Light Imaging Module Remote Microscope illuminates a target with acousto-optic generated traveling-wave sinusoidal patterns to measure the Fourier components of the object. It can resolve ∼10 μm features at a distance of 5 meters with a ∼20 mm depth of field enabling a rover to evaluate remote targets for further study. In this paper we present the optical and mechanical design, and initial characterization of the first to-scale SLIM-RM prototype.
AB - Microscopic imaging systems currently used on planetary exploration rovers operate over a short range, are dependent on ambient lighting and have a constrained depth of field requiring image stacking and increasing the data download requirement. The Structured Light Imaging Module Remote Microscope illuminates a target with acousto-optic generated traveling-wave sinusoidal patterns to measure the Fourier components of the object. It can resolve ∼10 μm features at a distance of 5 meters with a ∼20 mm depth of field enabling a rover to evaluate remote targets for further study. In this paper we present the optical and mechanical design, and initial characterization of the first to-scale SLIM-RM prototype.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO.2015.7119103
DO - 10.1109/AERO.2015.7119103
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84940676641
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
BT - 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015
Y2 - 7 March 2015 through 14 March 2015
ER -