Laboratory of Optical Measurement Methods

Main objectives and activities of the laboratory

• development and application of interferometric and holographic measurement methods,
• measurement and visualization of quantities from various physical and technical disciplines,
• providing expert consultancy and expertise in optical measurement, optics and optoelectronics.

Professional focus of the laboratory

• coherent measurement methods e.g. digital holographic interferometry, digital holographic microscopy or advanced interferometric techniques,
• automation of measuring, instrumentation and calibration of measurement devices,
• development of software for data processing and visualization, analysis of measurement uncertainties.

Specific equipment

• lasers operating at different wavelengths,
• wavelength tunable laser source,
• laser diodes with current and temperature controllers,
• acousto-optical and electro-optical light modulators,
• spatial light modulator,
• optical and opto-mechanical components,
• cameras with CCD or CMOS sensors, photodiodes,
• lenses and microscope objectives,
• fibre components and optical fibres,
• optical power and energy meters, luxmeters, current sources, arbitrary waveform generators, oscilloscopes, etc.
• vibration damped optical tables

Offered technologies and expertise

• non-destructive testing of mechanical structures (small displacement, stress, strain) in the whole surface,
• non-contact measurement of vibration amplitudes and the modal structures visualization with a high spatial resolution and dynamic range (1 nm-20 μm),
• topography measurement of objects,
• 3D measurement of density, temperature, velocity or concentration distribution in liquids,
• research of transfer phenomena (heat, mass, energy transfer),
• visualization and dynamic analysis of components based on MEMS and MOEMS,
• visualization and microscopic measurements of the topography of biological samples, components, microstructures,...

Laboratory team:

• Head of the lab: Ing. Pavel Psota, Ph.D. 
• Staff: Ing. Vít Lédl, Ph.D., Ing. Roman Doleček, Ph.D., Ing. Ondřej Matoušek, Ph.D., Ing. Marek Stašík, Ph.D., Ing. Michal Jiránek