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Psychometric qualities from the PROMIS-57 questionnaire, Norwegian version.
Speckle can be attenuated by averaging the reconstructed images of each sub-hologram or being filtered with different filters, at the expense of resolution. We propose a de-speckling method for a single-shot digital hologram while maintaining the resolution. Different tip-tilt phases are demonstrated to cause changes only for the speckle distributions of the reconstructed image. The speckle is attenuated by averaging these intensity images with different speckle distributions. The normalized contrast can be reduced to 0.56 by averaging only 20 different reconstructed images. When the averaged image is processed with block matching and 3D filtering, a further de-speckled image at a normalized contrast of 0.46 can be obtained with highly preserved resolution.The profile deformation of a phase defect in an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blank is the key factor to simulate its optical effects accurately and to compensate for it precisely. This paper provides a new, to the best of our knowledge, profile characterization method based on complex amplitudes of the aerial images for phase defects in EUV mask blanks. Fourier ptychography is adopted to retrieve the complex amplitudes of the aerial images and improve the lateral resolution. Both amplitude and phase impacted by the defect are taken into consideration to reconstruct the defect profile parameters (the height and the full width at half maxima of the defect's top and bottom profiles). A conformal convolutional neural network model is constructed to map the amplitudes and phases of aerial images to the defect profile parameters. The Gaussian-shaped defect models with the mapped profile parameters can be used to simulate the amplitude and phase properties of the defects when compensating for them. The proposed method is verified to reconstruct the defect profile parameters of both bump defects and pit defects accurately. The involvement of both the amplitude and phase information makes the reconstructed defect profile parameters more appropriate to simulate the optical effects of the defects.We demonstrate a bichromatic Doppler-free spectroscopy of an 87RbD1 line by using a dual-frequency, counterpropagating laser field with orthogonal linear polarizations. A reversed Doppler-free resonance dip is observed in the dual-frequency scheme, and a significant improvement of frequency discrimination curve is acquired due to the coherent population trapping (CPT) effect. The influence of the static magnetic field and laser intensity on the spectroscopy is studied in both single- and dual-frequency schemes. After locking the laser frequency to the 87RbD1 line in the dual-frequency stabilization scheme, the beat note fractional frequency stability is at the level of 7×10-12 at 1 s integration time. This technique can be used in various applications, such as CPT atomic clocks, laser spectroscopy, quantum optics, and laser-cooling experiments.Rolling contact fatigue cracks are common defects in rail, and they are also the source of various rail defects. When such defects occur, crack closure is caused due to interaction forces between wheels and rails during train running. In this study, eddy current pulsed thermography was applied for quantitative closed crack detection based on the isotherm analysis of temperature distributions. The differences between point-contact crack and opening crack in eddy current and temperature profile were compared in the simulation study. The angle crack test blocks with different closure depths were tested, and the simulation conclusions were consistent with experimental results. Therefore, the proposed method is an effective approach to quantify closed crack.We present a method for calibration and data extraction for a Stokes polarimeter working with three different wavelengths simultaneously. In the Stokes polarimeter considered in this work, we use two liquid crystal variable retarders (LCVRs) combined with a Glan-Thompson linear polarizer. A recently developed fitting calibration procedure is used. We use the same calibration samples and LCVR voltages for all three wavelengths, giving simultaneous measurement and calibration. We compare the performance of the polarimeter, after calibration, using four or six calibration samples in our experiment. To generate the four known calibration beams, we use a linear polarizer oriented at 130° and 30° with respect to the horizontal, a horizontal linear polarizer followed by a half-wave plate (at 632 nm) with its fast axis at 30°, and a horizontal linear polarizer followed by a quarter-wave plate (at 632 nm) with its fast axis at 30°. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/crenolanib-cp-868596.html For calibration with six reference beams, we add two known calibration beams by setting the fast axis of the half- and quarter-wave plates at 130°. Experimental results show good agreement with the expected results, with the fitting calibration procedure giving an approximately 50% reduction in total RMS error with four calibration samples. There is a negligible reduction in the error when six calibration samples are used compared to the case with four samples.Fast structured illumination microscopy plays an important role in micro-nano detection due to the features of high accuracy, high efficiency, and excellent adaptability. The existing method utilizes the linear region of the axial modulation response curve (AMR), and by building the relationship between the modulation and the real height, achieves topography recovery. However, the traditional method is limited to narrow dynamic measurement range due to the linear region of the AMR being very short. In this paper, a double-differential fast structured illumination microscopy (DDFSIM) is proposed. By introducing two additional detectable branches for building the double-differential axial modulation response curve (DDAMR), the proposed method can obtain a large dynamic measurement range. In the measurement, three charge-coupled devices are respectively placed in and behind and before the focal plane to generate three axial modulation response curves. Three AMRs are used to set up the DDAMR, which has a large dynamic measurement range. Through simulation and experimental verification, the measurement range of DDFSIM is twice that of the conventional method under the same system parameters.
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