A Scanning Wide-Angle Michelson Interferometer For The Visible Region

Z. J. Lu; R. A. Koehler; W. A. Gault; F. C. Liang

doi:10.1117/12.967352

1 January 1987 A Scanning Wide-Angle Michelson Interferometer For The Visible Region

Z. J. Lu, R. A. Koehler, W. A. Gault, F. C. Liang

Proceedings Volume 0813, Optics and the Information Age; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967352
Event: 14th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1987, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The construction of scanning wide-angle Michelson interferometers using existing field compensation methods1)2) is difficult and costly, especially in the visible region 3)4). The new stigmatic field-compensation method5)used in the current scanning wide-angle Michelson interferometer, overcomes the barrier of the high degree of synchronized motions that are required by Mertz's First Method- 5). A dynamic alignment system was also developed for the instrument to keep the two mirrors of the interferometer parallel during a scan. The operation of the instrument is controlled by a computer in real time.

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Z. J. Lu, R. A. Koehler, W. A. Gault, and F. C. Liang "A Scanning Wide-Angle Michelson Interferometer For The Visible Region", Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967352

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