Active illumination focus variation

Carlos Bermudez; Pol Martinez; Cristina Cadevall; Roger Artigas

doi:10.1117/12.2525981

21 June 2019 Active illumination focus variation

Carlos Bermudez, Pol Martinez, Cristina Cadevall, Roger Artigas

Proceedings Volume 11056, Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection XI; 110560W (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2525981
Event: SPIE Optical Metrology, 2019, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Focus Variation (FV) has been successfully employed for the three-dimensional measurement of rough surfaces. The technique relies on scanning the sample under inspection across the depth of focus of a high numerical aperture microscope objective, while computing the local contrast of its surface. Only those samples with sufficient texture will provide a usable axial response to compute its height location, limiting the application of Focus Variation to optically rough surfaces. Active illumination Focus Variation (AiFV) introduces an artificial texture on the field diaphragm position which is superimposed onto the surface. The benefit is a usable axial response, even when scanning an optically smooth surface, while minimizing the evaluation window of the focus operator close to the spatial autocorrelation length of the artificial texture. In this paper, we show the development of an Active illumination Focus Variation on an existing confocal microscope using Microdisplay Scanning technology. We analyzed the performance of AiFV on smooth surfaces with low frequency components, such as traceable Step Height or Type B2 roughness standards. Higher frequency samples such as random direction roughness standards or high-resolution targets are affected by the lateral resolution loss inherent on the AiFV technique. In this paper, we compare the lateral resolution limit of AiFV and Confocal Microscopy with the use of a Siemens Star specimen for a range of microscope objectives with numerical apertures from 0.3 to 0.95. Its influence on the computed ISO 25178 parameters on random surfaces is shown.

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Carlos Bermudez, Pol Martinez, Cristina Cadevall, and Roger Artigas "Active illumination focus variation", Proc. SPIE 11056, Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection XI, 110560W (21 June 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2525981

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