4 results about "Micromirror array" patented technology

The invention provides a light source spectrum modulating device. The light source spectrum modulating device comprises a light source, a first collecting optical unit, a chromatic dispersion unit, a digital micromirror array, a second collecting optical unit and a light uniformly blending unit, wherein the first collecting optical unit is used for collecting the light irradiation of the light source; the chromatic dispersion unit is used for chromatically dispersing the light irradiation collected by the first collecting optical unit, and imaging; a digital micromirror array is formed on a focal surface of the chromatic dispersion unit and is used for controlling the overturning state of each micromirror in order to select different spectrum positions and spectrum bandwidths; the second collecting optical unit is used for collecting the light irradiation reflected by the digital micromirror array again and transferring the collected light irradiation into the light uniformly blending unit; and the light uniformly blending unit is used for blending and recombining the separated single-light irradiation. By adopting the light source spectrum modulating device, the light source spectrum can be distributed again, and the distribution characteristic of the light source spectrum can be changed; the light source spectrum modulating device can be applied to the field of calibrating of optical instruments and simulation test; and by adopting the technology provided by the invention, the calibrating precision of the optical instruments and the simulation test capacity can be improved.

A passive imaging sensor includes a plurality of optical elements in which at least one includes one or more Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Micro-Mirror Arrays (MMAs) having a plurality of independently and continuously controllable mirrors that at least tip and tilt in 2 DOF and may tip, tilt and piston in 3 DOF. In an operational mode, the mirrors are tipped and tilted, and possibly pistoned, such that the optical radiation is focused at the pixelated detector to read out an image of the scene. NUC coefficients such as offset and/or gain are applied to either the output signals of the detector or to the image to form the NUC'd images. In a calibration mode, the mirrors are tipped and tilted and/or pistoned to spatially or temporally blur the image or to re-direct the FOV to one or more on-board calibration sources to generate a uniform image from which to calculate and update the NUC coefficients.