Long Exposure Short Pulse Synchronous Phase Lock Method for Capturing High Dynamic Surface Shape

Abstract

In infrared weak target detection systems, high-frequency vibrating mirrors (VMs) are a core component. The dynamic surface shape of the VM has a direct impact on imaging quality and the optical modulation effect, so its measurement is necessary but also very difficult. Measurement of the dynamic surface shape of VMs requires a transiently acquired image series, but traditional methods cannot perform this task, as, when the VM is vibrating at a frequency of 3033 Hz, using high-speed cameras to acquire the images would result in frame rates exceeding 1.34 MFPS, which is currently technically impossible. In this paper, we propose the long exposure short pulse synchronous phase lock (LSPL) method, which can capture the dynamic surface shape using a camera working at 10 FPS. In addition, our proposed approach uses a single laser pulse and can achieve the dynamic surface shape measurement on a single frame image.