An optical lever by using a mode-locked laser for angle measurement |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Nanomechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;2. The State Key Lab of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;1. Department of Nanomechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;2. MMC RYOTEC Corporation, 1528 Yokoinakashinden, Godo-cho, Anpachi-gun, Gifu 503-2301, Japan;1. Department of Nanomechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;2. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia |
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Abstract: | A new concept of optical lever for angle measurement having an extended angular measurement range with a mode-locked laser as the light source, which is significantly extended from the conventional photodiode (PD)-type optical levers with a single frequency laser, is proposed. In the proposed concept, a collimated laser beam of the mode-locked laser is made incident to a grating reflector to generate a group of first-order diffracted beams from the grating reflector. Differing from a conventional PD-type optical lever employing a laser beam with a single frequency as the light source, the angle measurement range can be significantly expanded for the sake of the group of widely-spread first-order diffracted beams. In addition, the proposed optical lever has a potential of assuring the traceability of angle measurement by linking it to the optical frequency comb based on the mode-locked laser, which is employed as the national standard of time and frequency. In this paper, as a first step of this research, a mode-locked femtosecond laser is employed as the light source of the proposed optical lever. To distinguish each of the first-order diffracted beams generated with the combination of the mode-locked femtosecond laser and the diffraction grating having a grating period of 1.67 μm, a Fabry-Pérot etalon is employed in the setup of the optical lever to modulate the distance between two neighboring beams in the group of first-order diffracted beams. Experimental setups are developed, and basic experiments are carried out to verify the feasibility of the proposed optical lever. |
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Keywords: | Measurement Angle Mode-locked laser Laser autocollimation Optical lever |
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