VDI/VDE manual Optical Technologies

VDI Standardisation Work - Principles and procedures

Accuracy of coordinate measuring machines; characteristic parameters and their checking - Coordinate measuring machines with optical probes - Basics

Accuracy of coordinate measuring machines - Characteristics and their testing - Code of practice to the application of DIN EN ISO 10360-7 for coordinate measuring machines equipped with image processing systems

Accuracy of coordinate measuring machines - Characteristics and their testing - Guideline for the application of DIN EN ISO 10360-8 to coordinate measuring machines with optical distance sensors

Accuracy of coordinate measuring machines - Characteristics and their testing - Acceptance and reverification tests for optical CMM measuring microgeometries according to DIN EN ISO 10360-8 and VDI/VDE 2617 Part 6.2

Optical measuring procedures - Digital image correlation; Basics, acceptance test, and iterim check

Automated visual inspection; description of the testing task

Machine vision - Basics, terms, and definitions

Machine vision - Preparation of a requirement specification and a system specification

Machine vision/industrial image processing - Acceptance test of classifying machine vision systems

Machine vision/industrial image processing - Acceptance test of classifying machine vision systems - Test of classification performance

Machine vision/industrial image processing - Surface inspection systems in flat steel production - Stability testing

Machine vision/industrial image processing - Surface inspection systems in flat steel production - Performance evaluation of classification

Optical form measurement - System requirements - Standard form

Optical 3D measuring systems - Imaging systems with point-by-point probing

Optical measurement and microtopographies - Calibration of interference microscopes and depth measurement standards for roughness measurement

Optical measurement of microtopography - Calibration of confocal microscopes and depth setting standards for roughness measurement

Optical metrology of microtopographies - Calibration of interferometers and interference microscopes for form measurement

Experimental stress analysis - Optical strain sensor based in fibre bragg grating - Fundamentals, characteristics and sensor testing

Technical temperature measurement - Optical temperature sensor based on fibre Bragg gratings - Recommendation on temperature measurement and statement of measurement uncertainty

Application of thermography to maintenance diagnostics - Electrical systems

Application of thermography to maintenance diagnostics - Electrical systems

Quality of cut faces of (sheet) metal parts after cutting, blanking, trimming or piercing; laser cutting

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Terms and definitions

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Maintenance and intended operation of radiation thermometers

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Calibration of radiation thermometers

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Practical application of radiation thermometers

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Set-up and use of calibration radiators

Temperature measurement in industry - Radiation thermometry - Ratio radiation thermometers

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) - Process descriptions

Testing of connectorised and non-connectorised polymer optical fibres (POF) - Terms and definitions

Testing of connectorised and non-connectorised polymer optical fibres (POF) - Testing of optical parameters

Testing of connectorised and non-connectorised polymer optical fibres (POF) - Testing of mechanical characteristics, environmental influences and aging behaviour

Testing of connectorised and non-connectorised polymer optical fibres (POF) - Power budget

X-ray optical systems - Terms and definitions

X-ray optical systems - Measurement methods; Measurement set-up and methods for the evaluation of X-ray optical systems

X-ray optical systems - Capillary X-ray lenses

X-ray optical systems - X-ray mirrors and X-ray mirror systems - Total reflection mirrors and multilayer mirrors

X-ray optical systems - Transmission zone plates

X-ray optical systems - Reflexion zone plates

X-ray optical systems - Refractive X-ray lenses

X-ray optical systems - Monochromator crystals

X-ray optical systems - X-ray filters

X-ray optical systems - Diffraction gratings

Precision glass moulding of optical elements - Basic technology

Preparation and cleaning of mould inserts and specimens to ensure reliable quality control measurements in the production chain of precision glass moulding

Technical temperature measurement - Temperature measurement with thermographic cameras - Metrological characterisation

Technical temperature measurement - Temperature measurement with thermographic cameras - Metrological characterisation - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 5585 Part 1:2018-03

Technical temperature measurement - Temperature measurements with thermographic cameras - Calibration

Terahertz systems - Terms and definitions

Terahertz systems - Time domain spectroscopy (TDS) systems

Terahertz systems - Frequency domain systems

Photometric and colorimetric quality criteria - Method to assess uniformity

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics: Optical design process

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics - Optical surfaces

Optical design for manufacturing - Illumination optics, non-imaging and freeform optics - Optical material parameters

Lighting technology - Optimisation of daylight use and artificial lighting - Fundamentals and basic requirements

Lighting technology - Optimisation of daylighting and artificial lighting - Design criteria

Local energy systems in buildings - Photovoltaics