The intention of this master‘s thesis is the measurment of relative variance of optical intensity. In the first place, I have been studied Kolmogorov cascade theory of turbulence and relative variance of optical intensity . In addition, I have been deal with turbulent cells, Gaussian beam, Top Hat beam and influence of the atmospheric turbulences on the intensity profile of the laser beam. Lastly I have been measured determine influence of the atmospheric turbulences on the intensity profile of the laser beam and I have been calculated relative variance of optical intensity. I have suggested the optimum beam profile in the turbulent atmosphere from acquired data.

Diploma thesis deal with design of laser beam shaping system. The theoretical part presents basic information about the light spread lika the optical beams. There are also properties of optical and optoelectronic components that are used for shaping the laser beam. The next section provides basic molding methods, their principles and qualities. In the last, experimental, part is first introduced designed computer algorithm, which is then used to calculate the quality parameters shaped laser beams. Following, there are presented the results of measurements and calculations for some of these methods.

Master of Science / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / William B. Kuhn / This work was a part of NASA EPSCoR Project NNX11AM05A: Biosensor Networks and Telecommunication Subsystems for Long Duration Missions, EVA Suits, and Robotic Precursor Scout Missions. The project’s main goal is the development of a wireless sensor network inside an astronaut’s spacesuit. Antennas are essential components in a wireless network. Since this antenna will be used inside the spacesuit it is important to consider both the physical size limitations and the desired antenna polarization. After exploring the WWVB radio station antenna which provides the preferred vertical polarization and has a suitable aspect ratio, the top hat antenna seemed promising for intrasuit communication. The design of a top hat antenna is outlined. Then, the antennas were tested using 433 MHz radios in a full scale model spacesuit. This spacesuit was designed specifically to model the behavior of aluminized mylar in the real suit. Test results support the feasibility of an intrasuit wireless network. If a gateway radio is placed on the chest or back, a sensor could be placed anywhere on the body and provide an adequate signal. These initial tests did not include a matching network, but the additional link-margin afforded by a matching network, even an imperfect match, is considered. Energy harvesting is explored as an alternative to batteries powering the intrasuit radio. In the oxygen rich environment of a spacesuit, even the smallest spark can be catastrophic. A variety of energy harvesting options are explored with a focus on thermal energy harvesting. The temperature difference between the human skin and the astronaut’s Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment can be used to produce a small voltage. To increase the voltage a step-up converter is implemented. Final integration of the two systems with a biosensor is left for on-going work in the three year NASA project.

This study focuses on hexagonally sampled images and grayscale morphology. We combine hexagonal image processing and grayscale morphology to develop hexagonal grayscale morphology, and propose an algorithm to detect and enhance edges. Hexagonal image processing consists of three important steps: conversion of hexagonally sampled images, processing, and display of processed images on simulated hexagonal grid. We construct four different sizes of hexagonal structuring elements to apply morphological operations on hexagonal images. In this study, we applied morphological gradient for edge detection and proposed algorithm for edge enhancement. Moreover, we developed six different shapes of structuring elements to find an optimum one. Finally, we assessed two methods to compare our results, and identified the best result and optimum structuring element. We expect that proposed algorithm will offer a useful tool of image processing on hexagonally sampled images.

Orientador: Roberto de Alencar Lotufo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T11:27:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sa_GustavoFerreiraCardosode_M.pdf: 2313623 bytes, checksum: ca6abbf3a186c9d5bed2d6b1e73e3a9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Neste trabalho são apresentadas melhorias na robustez do método FingerCode para reconhecimento de impressões digitais. No FingerCode a textura dos componentes orientados das impressões digitais são extraídas por um banco direcional de filtros Gabor. Posteriormente, os componentes orientados são setorizados e para cada setor é computado um valor. Este conjunto de valores forma o vetor de atributos. Finalmente, a média da diferença absoluta dos dois vetores de atributos é computada indicando a similaridade entre duas impressões digitais. Foram testadas várias soluções e entre as que apresentaram melhores resultados destacam-se: a substituição dos valores dos atributos através de uma função não-linear, a ponderação dos valores de atributo de acordo com características estatísticas da distribuição espacial dos valores e o cálculo de medidas estatísticas extraídas dos histogramas de distribuição de diferenças. Estas funções apresentaram um ganho significativo, principalmente para o caso dos sensores óticos com uma melhoria de aproximadamente 45% no EER. Outra contribuição apresentada foi uma nova implementação rápida do filtro Gabor 2D, que se constitui de uma onda sinusoidal modulada por um envelope gaussiano. A filtragem 2D da imagem por um banco de filtros Gabor 2D é uma das etapas de maior consumo de tempo no processamento de imagens. Na nova solução proposta, o filtro Gabor 2D é separado em dois filtros Gabor 1D ortogonais, bastando para isto que o envelope gaussiano obedeça a condição de ser circular. O processamento com o filtro separado é mais rápida do que com o filtro não-separado e o ganho na performance aumenta à medida que aumenta o tamanho da imagem ou do filtro. Também foram desenvolvidas novas técnicas de segmentação: baseada em morfologia matemática e baseada em filtros Gabor. Estas segmentações ocorrem ao nível do píxel, com ótimos resultados, principalmente após a uniformização da área através de processos morfológicos / Abstract: In this work it is introduced improvements in robustness of FingerCode method to recognize fingerprints. In the FingerCode the texture of fingerprint oriented components are extracted by a bank of directional Gabor filters. After that, the oriented components are tessellated and a value is computed for each sector. This set of values constitutes the attribute vector. Finally, the absolute difference mean between the two attribute vectors is computed that gives the similarity between two fingerprints. New solutions were tested; among them the best results were obtained by: attribute values replacement by a non-linear function, attribute values weighting by statistical characteristics of spatial distribution of values, and the calculus of statistical measures extracted from the difference distribution histograms. These functions presented a significant gain, mainly in the case of optical sensors with an improvement about 45% in EER. Another contribution presented was a new fast implementation of the 2D Gabor filter, which constitutes in a sinusoidal wave modulated by a Gaussian envelope. The 2D image filtering by a bank of 2D Gabor filters is one of the most expensive stage of image processing. In the new solution proposed, the 2D Gabor filter is separated in two orthogonal 1D Gabor filters, for this the Gaussian envelope must obey the condition of being circular. Processing with the separated filter is faster than the non-separated filter, and the gain improves as the size of image or filter increases. Also it was developed new segmentation techniques: based on mathematical morphology, and based on Gabor filters. Those segmentations occur at pixel level, with good results, mostly after the area regularization with morphological processes / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

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Dizertačná práca je zameraná na štúdium a analýzu rozloženia optickej intenzity v laserovom zväzku v rovine vysielacej (TXA) a prijímacej apertúry (RXA), ktorý podlieha zmenám ako pri šírení voľným priestorom, tak pri šírení atmosférou. Cieľom práce je nájsť optimálne rozloženie optickej intezity v rovine vysielacej apertúry, ktoré bude minimálne ovplyvnené apertúrou vysielača a atmosférickými turbulenciami. Za účelom analýzy šírenia optickej vlny atmosférou bola využitá simulácia založená na metóde Split-Step. Šírenie Flattened Gaussian zväzku bolo analyzované pre režim slabých a stredných turbulencií. Práca sa zaoberá použitím multimódového vlákna s veľkým priemerom jadra ako tvarujúceho elementu a obsahuje návrh refrakčného tvarovača, pomocou ktorého je možno konvertovať Gaussovský zväzok na zväzok s uniformným rozložením optickej intenzity. Nakoniec je pomocou získaných poznatkov zostavený plne fotonický vysielač a prijímač, ktorých použitie spočíva v generovaní a príjmaní optickej koherentnej vlny prenášajúcej presnú fázu.

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In this thesis the lateral resolution limits of the Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) technique are being investigated. LIFT is a laser direct write process with micron and below resolution and is suitable for modifying, repairing and prototyping micro-devices. Single laser pulses with wavelength of 800 nm and duration of 130 fs from a Ti:Sapphire laser system were focused onto a transparent donor substrate coated with thin film to transfer the thin film material in the form of micro-disks through a small air gap onto an acceptor substrate. In this thesis, donor glass substrate coated with 80nm continuous Cr film and also Cr disks array patterned by photolithography or e-beam lithography were used as targets. The ablation threshold and transfer threshold were determined experimentally and compared to results from two-temperature model (TTM) simulations and reasonably agreement was obtained. For the continuous film target, the size of the LIFT disks depend on the laser fluences and the smallest sizes of around 700 nm were obtained near the transfer threshold. For the pre-patterned disks array targets, initially 1.3m Cr disks were fabricated on the donor substrates by photolithography. Small focused, larger defocused and large top-hat laser beams were used to transfer the pre-patterned Cr disks. The morphology of the transferred material and reliability of transfer were studied. It was found that the large top-hat beam gave the most reliable and high quality transfer results, resulting in mostly intact LIFT disks on the acceptor substrate. To push the resolution limit further, 500nm Cr disks fabricated on the donor substrate by e-beam lithography were used. The successful transfer of these 500 nm Cr disks gives a positive indication that LIFT can potentially be extended further to the nano-scale regime (usually defined as having sub-100 nm resolution).

This master´s thesis provides basic properties and measurement of optical beams. In the first chapter is shown division of light on ray, wave and beam optics. Atmospheric optics and properties associated with propagation of light through the earth's atmosphere is presented in the second chapter. In the third part are shown basic techniques for Gaussian beam shaping. The last chapter deals with measurement of optical beam after propagating through a turbulent medium. In this section is shown distribution of relative variance of optical intensity in Gaussian and Top-Hat beam. There is also measured spatial coherence of laser beam in the turbulent atmospheric transmission media. Finally effect of the beam wander is investigated.