A Traveling Michelson Interferometer with Phase-Locked Fringe Interpolation
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The advent of single-mode cw dye lasers and their application to Doppler-free spectroscopy makes essential the capability of rapidly measuring the dye laser s wavelength with sub-Doppler absolute accuracy. Our wavelength measuring apparatus [1] is basically an automatic-scanning Michelson interferometer utilizing corner-cube retroreflectors, with phase multiplication for extending the resolution. The interferometer measures an unknown wavelength in terms of a reference laser wavelength. Motion of the carriage holding the corner-cubes lengthens one arm and shortens the other arm of this interferometer. For a given distance traveled by the carriage, a different number of fringes will be counted for the unknown laser and the reference laser (since their wavelengths are different). Naturally, a higher resolution level for the measured wavelength will require a longer travel, and consequently, a longer measuring time. Our resolution-extension concept, however, enables us to obtain wavelength information of a given resolution level in 100-fold less time than is required with direct fringe counting. |
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1977
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Start Page or Article ID |
421-422
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Conference Location |
Berlin, Heidelberg
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ISBN Number |
978-3-540-35968-5
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DOI |
10.1007/978-3-540-35968-5_51
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