Displacement measurements of technical surfaces with a synchronously pumped external cavity diode laser

Jasper Mobius; Jurgen Czarske; Karsten Moldenhauer; Wolfgang Ertmer; Thomas Muller-Wirts

doi:10.1117/12.543886

10 September 2004 Displacement measurements of technical surfaces with a synchronously pumped external cavity diode laser

Jasper Mobius, Jurgen Czarske, Karsten Moldenhauer, Wolfgang Ertmer, Thomas Muller-Wirts

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Proceedings Volume 5457, Optical Metrology in Production Engineering; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543886
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

A novel principle for absolute position measurements of rough surfaces is presented. A measurement object with a rough surface acts as an external reflector for an antireflection coated laser diode. Determining the longitudinal mode spacing yields the distance from the laser diode to the measurement object. Synchronous pumping of the laser diode results in locking of the modes of the built-up Fabry-Perot resonator. Due to resonance enhancement the mode locked external cavity laser sensor allows highly resolved displacement measurements of rough surfaces. The influence of the object as well as the active gain medium on the accuracy of the measurements is investigated by experiments and simulations.

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Jasper Mobius, Jurgen Czarske, Karsten Moldenhauer, Wolfgang Ertmer, and Thomas Muller-Wirts "Displacement measurements of technical surfaces with a synchronously pumped external cavity diode laser", Proc. SPIE 5457, Optical Metrology in Production Engineering, (10 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.543886

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