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Figure 1: Schematic layout of a White-light Interferometer. A CCD image sensor like those used for digital photography is placed at the point where the two images are superimposed. A broadband “white light” source is used to illuminate the test and reference surfaces. A condenser lens collimates the light from the broadband light source.
A white light scanner (WLS) is a device for performing surface height measurements of an object using coherence scanning interferometry with spectrally-broadband, "white light" illumination. Different configurations of scanning interferometer may be used to measure macroscopic objects with surface profiles measuring in the centimeter range, to ...
Michelson interferometers using a white light source White light has a tiny coherence length and is difficult to use in a Michelson (or Mach–Zehnder ) interferometer. Even a narrowband (or "quasi-monochromatic") spectral source requires careful attention to issues of chromatic dispersion when used to illuminate an interferometer.
Shearing interferometer (lateral and radial) Twyman–Green interferometer; Talbot–Lau interferometer; Watson interferometer (microscopy) White-light interferometer (see also Optical coherence tomography, White light interferometry, and Coherence Scanning Interferometry) White-light scatterplate interferometer (white-light) (microscopy)
Because the scatterplate interferometer is a common-path interferometer, the reference and test paths are automatically matched so that a zero order fringe can be easily obtained even with white light. It is relatively insensitive to vibration and turbulence, and the quality of the auxiliary optics is not as critical as in a Twyman-Green setup ...
Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) is any of a class of optical surface measurement methods wherein the localization of interference fringes during a scan of optical path length provides a means to determine surface characteristics such as topography, transparent film structure, and optical properties.
Figure 1. The light path through a Michelson interferometer.The two light rays with a common source combine at the half-silvered mirror to reach the detector. They may either interfere constructively (strengthening in intensity) if their light waves arrive in phase, or interfere destructively (weakening in intensity) if they arrive out of phase, depending on the exact distances between the ...
A white light interferometer is already a rather esoteric device so discussion of whether the central fringe is white or dark is already of little general use EVEN if it were so simple. For the target audience, they should learn that a Michelson interferometer IS something you can build at home WITHOUT worrying about passing horse traffic etc.!