Freeform surfaces on optical components have become an important design tool for optical designers. Non-rotationally symmetric optical surfaces have made solving complex optical problems easier. The manufacturing and testing of these surfaces has been the technical hurdle in freeform optic’s wide-spread use. Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) optics manufacturing technology has made the fabr...

Of all forms of Intelligent Narrative, interactive narratives are uniquely well-poised to benefit from player modelling techniques. Given the availability of immediate player feedback as interactions with the narrative’s world, the traditional task of delayed authoring can be informed with the author’s knowledge of which types of players should prefer each event; this allows generated narrative...

in this research, the effect of 2.3 wt.% aluminum addition on the microstructure and tensile properties of high manganese austenitic steel fe-18mn-0.6c was studied. for this purpose, the samples were investment cast, homogenized and hot rolled. tensile testing was carried out at ambient temperature. microstructural investigations and fractography on the steel samples were carried out using an o...

In this paper, we test the performance of a quasi-optical, internal-gyrotron mode converter. When cold testing mode converters, a rotating higher-order mode is commonly used. However, this requires a nontrivial design and precise alignment. We thus propose a new technique for testing gyrotron mode converters by using a simple, non-rotating, higher-order mode generator. We demonstrate the feasib...

cu(in,ga)se2 thin films (cigs) on metallic substrate (titanium, molybdenum, aluminum, stainless steel) were prepared by a two-step selenization of co-evaporated metallic precursors in se-containing environment under n2 gas flow. structural properties of prepared thin film were studied. to characterize the optical quality and intrinsic defect nature low-temperature photoluminescence, were perfor...

this article reviews the development of non-invasive optical techniques for determination of blood glucose concentrations in diabetic patients. early diagnosis and daily management are essential for ensuring the healthy life of diabetic patients. the determination of blood glucose concentration with common devices involves the chemical analysis of blood samples, which are obtained by pricking t...

background: early and non-invasive determination of blood glucose level is of great importance. we aimed to present a new technique to accurately infer the blood glucose concentration in peripheral blood flow using non-invasive optical monitoring system. methods: the data for the research were obtained from 900 individuals. of them, 750 people had diabetes mellitus (dm). the system was designed...

INTRODUCTION Optical rhinometry (ORM) is a technique that allows for direct continuous measurement of changes in blood flow (optical density) in nasal vessels, at the same time analyzing changes per unit of time in the evaluated variable: intravascular blood flow and oxygen saturation. AIM To assess the extent to which ORM can be used as an objective measure of nasal mucosal edema following a...

The application of computer generated holograms to the interferometric testing of aspheric optical elements has been investigated, and it has been shown that they provide a convenient and practical method of producing an aspheric reference wavefront.

This article describes experimental results, which have been achieved from our three realized solutions of liveness detection. These liveness detection solutions were patented (international patent WO/2007/036370, Czech utility model UPV19364) and theoretically introduced in the previous work. First solution is based on detection of changes of distance between neighbor papillary lines caused by...