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Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection
Published on: April 26, 2014
Real-time detection and elimination of nonorthogonality error in interference fringe processing
1School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China. haijianghu@gmail.com
Abstract:
In the measurement system of interference fringe, the nonorthogonality error is a main error source that influences the precision and accuracy of the measurement system. The detection and elimination of the error has been an important target. A novel method that only uses the cross-zero detection and the counting is proposed to detect and eliminate the nonorthogonality error in real time. This method can be simply realized by means of the digital logic device, because it does not invoke trigonometric functions and inverse trigonometric functions. And it can be widely used in the bidirectional subdivision systems of a Moiré fringe and other optical instruments.
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