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Three-degrees-of-freedom measurement system for measuring straightness errors and their position based on the Faraday
Abstract:
A three-degrees-of-freedom measurement system based on the Faraday effect is proposed for simultaneously measuring two-dimensional straightness errors and their position. Thanks to the Faraday effect of the Faraday rotator, the direction of a linearly polarized beam can be changed by 90° when the linearly polarized beam passes through the same Faraday rotator back and forth twice. A novel optical configuration is designed that can integrate the interferometry and position-sensitive detection technology ingeniously and put their advantages together. The measurement principle is described in detail. The influence of angle error of the semitransparent mirror on straightness measurement is discussed. To verify the feasibility of the proposed system, the experimental setup for measuring three degrees of freedom was constructed, and a series of experiments were carried out.
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