Abstract
As a fast, high-accuracy and non-contact method, chromatic confocal microscopy is widely used in micro dimensional measurement. In this area, thickness measurement for transparent specimen is one of the typical applications. In conventional coaxial illumination mode, both the illumination and imaging axes are perpendicular to the test specimen. At the same time, there are also geometric measurement limitations in conventional mode. When measuring high-transparency specimen, the energy efficiency will be quite low, and the reflection will be very weak. This limitation will significantly affect the signal-to-noise ratio. The inclined illumination mode is a good solution to overcome this bottleneck, but the thickness results may vary at different axial positions of the sample. In this paper, an error correction method for thickness measurement of transparent samples is proposed. In the authors’ work, the error correction model was analyzed and simulated, and the influence caused by the different axial positions of sample could be theoretically eliminated. The experimental results showed that the thickness measurement of the samples was practically usable, and the measurement errors were significantly reduced by less than 2.12%, as compared to the uncorrected system. With this error correction model, the standard deviation had decreased significantly, and the axial measurement accuracy of the system can reach the micron level. Additionally, this model has the same correction effect on the samples with different refractive indexes. Therefore, the system can realize the requirement of measurement at different axial positions.
Highlights
Chromatic confocal measurement technology is a 3D surface topography measurement technology, which is widely used in many fields such as mechanical manufacturing [1,2], electronic manufacturing [3,4], biomedical [5,6], aerospace [7,8], etc
An error correction model was proposed by calculating the parameter values
The measurement results at different axial positions vary significantly
Summary
Chromatic confocal measurement technology is a 3D surface topography measurement technology, which is widely used in many fields such as mechanical manufacturing [1,2], electronic manufacturing [3,4], biomedical [5,6], aerospace [7,8], etc. In 2021, Li et al [18] proposed a method for measuring the thickness of self-supporting film using double chromatic confocal probes. The author’s team established a chromatic confocal measurement device with inclined illumination to measure transparent specimens [20] This declined optical configuration required a separation of illumination and imaging optical paths. In this paper, the key work is to analyze the effect of different axial positions on the thickness measurement error and propose an error correction method to improve the measurement accuracy of an inclined chromatic confocal system.
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