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1Applied Photonics and Nanophotonics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Nappam 78402, India.
Abstract:
A 3D printed smartphone based interferometric system is proposed, and its usability has been demonstrated by measuring small angular rotations. All necessary fringe processing and data analysis have been performed within the phone itself using custom designed application developed in an android platform. The main objective of the proposed work is to demonstrate the usability of modern smartphone and 3D printing technology for optical interferometric applications. The smartphone camera has been used to record the interference fringes which has been formed due to the change in the optical path difference (OPD) between light rays reflected from the top and bottom surface of a microscopic glass slide. The angular variation of the slide causes a detectable change in the OPD between the interfering beams which subsequently would cause a variation in the fringe pattern. By evaluating necessary interferometric parameters, small angular rotation can be computed within the smartphone application. With the designed smartphone based interferometric system, angular rotation as small as 0.02° can be measured accurately and reliably having a dynamic range of -3.68° to 3.68°. Due to the involvement of the smartphone as a platform for recording as well as onboard fringe processing, the designed interferometric system can be visualized as a truly field portable tool for different optical metrological applications.
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