Abstract
A small-displacement sensing system based on multiple total internal reflections in heterodyne interferometry is proposed. In this paper, a small displacement can be obtained only by measuring the variation in phase difference between s- and p-polarization states for the total internal reflection effect. In order to improve the sensitivity, we increase the number of total internal reflections by using a parallelogram prism. The theoretical resolution of the method is better than 0:417nm. The method has some merits, e.g., high resolution, high sensitivity, and real-time measurement. Also, its feasibility is demonstrated.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2566-2573 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Applied Optics |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 May 2009 |