Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual laser frequency sweep interferometry system and method
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Application No.: US15322017Application Date: 2015-06-24
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Publication No.: US10168137B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Juan Jose Martinez , Nigel Joseph Copner , Matthew Stuard Warden , Edward Benjamin Hughes , Michael Aloysius Campbell
- Applicant: The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills
- Applicant Address: GB Teddington
- Assignee: NPL Management Limited
- Current Assignee: NPL Management Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Teddington
- Priority: GB1411206.4 20140624
- International Application: PCT/GB2015/051839 WO 20150624
- International Announcement: WO2015/198044 WO 20151230
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; G01B11/02 ; G01S17/32 ; G01S7/491 ; G02F1/35

Abstract:
An optical arrangement, method and measurement system are disclosed. The arrangement includes a first input to receive a first beam from a frequency swept laser, a second input to receive a second beam from a fixed frequency pump laser source. A non-linear optical artifact receives and intermodulates the first and second beams to generate a third beam, the third being an inverted copy of the first beam mirrored relative to the fixed frequency of the pump laser source. A selective combining element outputs the first and third beams. The non-linear artifact or one or both of the lasers is selected or configured such that the optical frequency separation of the first and second beams satisfies the coherence length condition of the non-linear artifact.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170146335A1 Dual Laser Frequency Sweep Interferometry System and Method Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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