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Parallel Plate Interferometer with a Reflecting Mirror for Measuring Angular Displacement

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A parallel plate interferometer with a reflecting mirror for measuring angular displacement is proposed. A deflection angle of a beam caused by an angular displacement is amplified by use of a reflecting mirror to increase the optical path difference (OPD) in the plane-parallel plate, which provides high sensitivity of the phase measurement. Detection of light transmitted through the plane-parallel plate with a position sensitive detector (PSD) enables high accurate measurement of the initial angle of incidence to the plane-parallel plate with insensitivity to stray light. The improved parallel plate interferometer achieves a measurement repeatability of 10−8 rad.

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  1. Information Optics Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Defeng Zheng & Xiangzhao Wang

  2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

    Defeng Zheng & Xiangzhao Wang

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan

    Osami Sasaki

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Zheng, D., Wang, X. & Sasaki, O. Parallel Plate Interferometer with a Reflecting Mirror for Measuring Angular Displacement. OPT REV 14, 314–318 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-007-0314-8

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