Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lightwave interferometric distance measuring method and apparatus using an optical comb
- Patent Title (中): 光波干涉距离测量方法和使用光梳的装置
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Application No.: US12511406Application Date: 2009-07-29
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Publication No.: US08368900B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Kazuhiko Kawasaki , Kaoru Miyata
- Applicant: Kazuhiko Kawasaki , Kaoru Miyata
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2008-198312 20080731
- Main IPC: G01B11/02
- IPC: G01B11/02

Abstract:
The oscillation wavelength of a variable wavelength laser is measured by using an optical comb, and a feedback control is performed, whereby laser beams of plural predetermined wavelengths are obtained, or a variable wavelength laser is caused to oscillate at plural arbitrary wavelengths to obtain plural distance measurement values. The wavelengths (frequencies) of laser beams when the respective distance measurement values are obtained are measured by the optical comb, and used in calculation of the geometric distance. Plural lasers are used, and the geometric distance is obtained while the wavelengths of laser beams oscillated from the lasers are measured by the optical comb.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100026983A1 LIGHTWAVE INTERFEROMETRIC DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-02-04
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