Correlation analysis of couple optical paths for micro stereovision with stereo light microscope

Abstract

A micro stereovision system with a stereo light microscope (SLM) has been applied in micromanipulation systems. There is a coupling connection between two optical paths of a stereo light microscope. The coupling intension corresponds with two factors: the structure of an SLM and the position of an object point in the view of an SLM. In this paper, a correlation function is proposed to describe the coupling intension between the couple optical paths of an SLM. The quantified results are applied to the error analysis of the imaging model. Experiments show that the correlation of the optical paths of a common main objective of stereo light microscope (CMO-SLM) is little more than that of a G-SLM, and the error must be considered when a pinhole imaging model is used to analyze its correlation.