Optical coherence tomography used for jade industry

Shoude Chang; Youxin Mao; Guangming Chang; Costel Flueraru

doi:10.1117/12.868577

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11 November 2010 Optical coherence tomography used for jade industry

Shoude Chang, Youxin Mao, Guangming Chang, Costel Flueraru

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Proceedings Volume 7855, Optical Metrology and Inspection for Industrial Applications; 785514 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868577
Event: Photonics Asia 2010, 2010, Beijing, China

Abstract

As an expensive natural stone, jade has a worldwide market. In the jade industry, the inspection and analysis basically rely on the human eye and/or experience, which cause unavoidable waste and damage of these expensive materials. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a fundamentally new type of optical sensing technology, which can perform high resolution, cross-sectional sensing of the internal structure of materials. As jade is almost translucent to infra red light, OCT becomes an ideal tool to change the traditional procedure to volume data based machine vision system. OCT can also be used for anti-counterfeit of the expensive jade ware.

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Shoude Chang, Youxin Mao, Guangming Chang, and Costel Flueraru "Optical coherence tomography used for jade industry", Proc. SPIE 7855, Optical Metrology and Inspection for Industrial Applications, 785514 (11 November 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868577

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