Lock-in optical instrumentation for snapshot hyperspectral imaging

C. Harrison Brodie; Jasen Devasagayam; Christopher M. Collier

doi:10.1117/12.2538484

2 March 2020 Lock-in optical instrumentation for snapshot hyperspectral imaging

C. Harrison Brodie, Jasen Devasagayam, Christopher M. Collier

Proceedings Volume 11287, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering VII; 1128710 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2538484
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology has become prominent, with a wide range of applications: food quality control, crop monitoring, and medical diagnostics. As HSI is able to capture spatial and spectral data, it is highly desirable, but highly complex. However, this functionality presents a challenge for data acquisition as three-dimensional HSI images must be acquired by an image sensor of one less dimension. Thus, HSI systems are often pushbroom systems, with twodimensional images being successively constructed over time from line scans. Additionally, HSI is expensive and difficult to operate. A snapshot HSI system is developed to address these challenges, whereby the additional image dimension is encoded onto an occupied dimension on the image sensor. Additionally, the snapshot HSI system is constructed from low cost, readily available components. The presented snapshot HSI system consists of a transparent diffraction optical disc bonded to an aperture mask, with alternating transparent and opaque regions, acting as an optical chopper when rotated by a DC brushless motor. This allows separation of the spectra of overlapped pixels on the HSI image sensor. When an incident beam passes through this optical chopper, many frequencies (corresponding to spatial channels) are imposed by the binary mask, while undergoing diffraction across the visible spectrum. Overlapped spectra are directed at a charge coupled device, where Fourier analyses distinguish each spatial channel. System geometry is used to transform the Fourier amplitude spectra into functions of wavelength for each spatial pixel. The design is experimentally validated through comparison to a commercially available spectrometer.

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C. Harrison Brodie, Jasen Devasagayam, and Christopher M. Collier "Lock-in optical instrumentation for snapshot hyperspectral imaging", Proc. SPIE 11287, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering VII, 1128710 (2 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2538484

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