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High-resolution, High-speed, Three-dimensional Video Imaging with Digital Fringe Projection Techniques
Published on: December 3, 2013
High-accuracy profiler that uses depth from focus
Abstract:
A CCD-based confocal microscope system that is used to measure accurate three-dimensional surface profiles is reported. For a field of view of 500 µm, surface samples spaced at 12 µm on smooth specular test objects are simultaneously resolved in depth to ~ 1 µm (depending on the surface being observed). A precision of 0.1 µm is obtained for a mirrored surface for a field of view 400 µm wide. Simple scaling and sampling results permit these results to be extended to other apparatus dimensions and range sampling intervals.
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