GB1233597A - - Google Patents
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- Publication number
- GB1233597A GB1233597A GB1233597DA GB1233597A GB 1233597 A GB1233597 A GB 1233597A GB 1233597D A GB1233597D A GB 1233597DA GB 1233597 A GB1233597 A GB 1233597A
- Authority
- GB
- United Kingdom
- Prior art keywords
- beams
- splitter
- plate
- retroreflector
- polarization
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Expired
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Classifications
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B9/00—Measuring instruments characterised by the use of optical techniques
- G01B9/02—Interferometers
- G01B9/02001—Interferometers characterised by controlling or generating intrinsic radiation properties
- G01B9/02007—Two or more frequencies or sources used for interferometric measurement
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01B—MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- G01B2290/00—Aspects of interferometers not specifically covered by any group under G01B9/02
- G01B2290/70—Using polarization in the interferometer
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- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Instruments For Measurement Of Length By Optical Means (AREA)
- Length Measuring Devices By Optical Means (AREA)
- Polarising Elements (AREA)
Abstract
1,233,597. Photo-electric interferometers. PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. May 30, 1968 [June 2, 1967], No.25965/68. Heading G1A. [Also in Division G2] In a Michelson interferometer the source produces two coherent beams of slightly different wavelength and different polarization and phaseansiotropic means such as a quarter-wave plate are located in at least one of the partial beams whereby the state of polarization of its radiation when incident upon the beam combiner is orthogonal to its state of polarization when emerging from the beam-splitter. Left and right circularly polarized beams of 1À153Á radiation from a He-Ne laser 1, Fig. 1 having a frequency difference of 0À2 Mc/ s are converted into plane polarized beams 4, 5 by a #/4 plate 3. A beam-splitter 2 comprising alterating layers 8 of different refractive index upon which the beams are incident at the Brewster angle reflects beam 5 to a fixed retroreflector 11, 13 through a #/4 plate 9 and transmits beam 4 to a retroreflector 12, 14 through a #/4 plate 10. The reflected beams 15, 16 are recombined by beamsplitter 2 and pass through a plane polarizer set at 45 degrees to the planes of beams 25, 26 to a detector 18 which has an output at the beat frequency of the beams 25, 26 and phase modulated by the position of retroreflector 12, 14. A detector 18 receiving laser light via beam-splitting mirror 22 and a polarizer 19 produces a reference phase. In another embodiment, Fig. 2, (not shown) the polarizing beam-splitter is replaced by an isotropic beam-splitter and the #/4 plate 9 is omitted. The recombined beam is split by a polarizing beam-splitter and the split beams fall on separate detectors which produce signals at the beat frequency of the source beams and with a phase difference dependent upon the position of the movable retroreflector.
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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NL6707681A NL6707681A (en) | 1967-06-02 | 1967-06-02 |
Publications (1)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
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GB1233597A true GB1233597A (en) | 1971-05-26 |
Family
ID=19800297
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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GB1233597D Expired GB1233597A (en) | 1967-06-02 | 1968-05-30 |
Country Status (7)
Country | Link |
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JP (1) | JPS494668B1 (en) |
BE (1) | BE715999A (en) |
CH (1) | CH519699A (en) |
FR (1) | FR1579550A (en) |
GB (1) | GB1233597A (en) |
NL (1) | NL6707681A (en) |
SE (1) | SE330991B (en) |
Cited By (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2210973A (en) * | 1987-10-12 | 1989-06-21 | Japan Res Dev Corp | Light wave interference length-measuring apparatus |
GB2333834A (en) * | 1998-01-29 | 1999-08-04 | Hewlett Packard Co | Interferometer with deadpath error compensation |
WO2002063258A1 (en) * | 2000-12-04 | 2002-08-15 | Vitaly Atnashev | Spectrometry method and device for carrying out said method |
Families Citing this family (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR2177476B1 (en) * | 1972-03-03 | 1974-08-02 | Onera (Off Nat Aerospatiale) | |
JPS5147266U (en) * | 1974-10-07 | 1976-04-08 | ||
DD201191B1 (en) * | 1981-09-24 | 1987-07-15 | Ilmenau Tech Hochschule | KIPPINVARIANT INTERFEROMETER WITH LEVELS MIRROR |
EP0448751B1 (en) * | 1990-03-27 | 1994-07-13 | Wolfgang Prof. Dr. Sohler | Integrated acoustooptic heterodyne interferometer |
FR2685763B1 (en) * | 1991-12-27 | 1994-03-25 | Aime Vareille | OPTICAL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE RELATIVE POSITIONING OF WORKPIECES. |
DE19628200B4 (en) * | 1996-07-12 | 2007-03-01 | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. | Apparatus for performing interferometric measurements |
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1967
- 1967-06-02 NL NL6707681A patent/NL6707681A/xx unknown
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1968
- 1968-05-30 SE SE07298/68A patent/SE330991B/xx unknown
- 1968-05-30 GB GB1233597D patent/GB1233597A/en not_active Expired
- 1968-05-30 CH CH800368A patent/CH519699A/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1968-05-31 BE BE715999D patent/BE715999A/xx unknown
- 1968-06-01 JP JP43037107A patent/JPS494668B1/ja active Pending
- 1968-06-04 FR FR1579550D patent/FR1579550A/fr not_active Expired
Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
GB2210973A (en) * | 1987-10-12 | 1989-06-21 | Japan Res Dev Corp | Light wave interference length-measuring apparatus |
GB2210973B (en) * | 1987-10-12 | 1991-10-09 | Japan Res Dev Corp | Light wave interference length-measuring apparatus |
GB2333834A (en) * | 1998-01-29 | 1999-08-04 | Hewlett Packard Co | Interferometer with deadpath error compensation |
WO2002063258A1 (en) * | 2000-12-04 | 2002-08-15 | Vitaly Atnashev | Spectrometry method and device for carrying out said method |
Also Published As
Publication number | Publication date |
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DE1773541A1 (en) | 1971-06-09 |
JPS494668B1 (en) | 1974-02-02 |
SE330991B (en) | 1970-12-07 |
CH519699A (en) | 1972-02-29 |
BE715999A (en) | 1968-12-02 |
DE1773541B2 (en) | 1975-07-17 |
FR1579550A (en) | 1969-08-29 |
NL6707681A (en) | 1968-12-03 |
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Legal Events
Date | Code | Title | Description |
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PS | Patent sealed | ||
PCNP | Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee |