Alignment Of A Two-Beam Interferometer

Eldred F. Tubbs

doi:10.1117/12.959460

31 December 1980 Alignment Of A Two-Beam Interferometer

Eldred F. Tubbs

Proceedings Volume 0251, Optical Alignment I; (1980) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959460
Event: 24th Annual Technical Symposium, 1980, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Two beam interferometers have been proposed for space applications such as sensing the shape of a large antenna. Since alignment and adjustment of interferometers have long been considered difficult laboratory tasks, the question of making their operation sufficiently automatic for space applications is a serious one. As a first step in addressing this question certain manual procedures, which may not be well known, have been collected from widely scattered sources. These techniques are illustrated by two examples: (1) the alignment of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the adjustment of fringe location. (2) The adjustment of a Michelson interferometer for zero path difference (white light fringes). .

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Eldred F. Tubbs "Alignment Of A Two-Beam Interferometer", Proc. SPIE 0251, Optical Alignment I, (31 December 1980); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959460

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