학술논문

Fiber-optic project-fringe interferometry with sinusoidal phase modulating system.
Document Type
Article
Source
Optical Engineering. Jun2013, Vol. 52 Issue 6, p1-5. 5p.
Subject
*FIBER optics
*INTERFEROMETERS
*OPTICAL couplers
*CLOSED loop systems
*FEEDBACK control systems
Language
ISSN
0091-3286
Abstract
A fiber-optic sinusoidal phase-modulating (SPM) interferometer for fringe projection is presented. The system is based on the SPM technique and makes use of the Mach--Zehnder interferometer structure and Young's double pinhole interference principle to achieve interference fringe projection. A Michelson interferometer, which contains the detection of Fresnel reflection on its fiber end face and interference at one input port of a 3 dB coupler, is utilized to achieve feedback precise control of the fringe phase, which is sensitive to phase drifting produced by the nature of the fiber. The phase diversity for the closed-loop SPM system can be real-time measured with a precision of 3 mrad. External disturbances mainly caused by temperature fluctuations can be reduced to 57 mrad for the fringe map. The experimental results have shown the usefulness of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]