Abstract:
A frequency- stabilized laser apparatus and a method for stabilizing the frequency of a laser are disclosed. A semiconductor laser emits a beam. An external reflector has a resonance frequency and feeds back the emitted beam to the semiconductor laser if the frequency of the emitted beam is equal to the resonance frequency. An interference signal generator generates an interference signal for detecting the wavelength of the emitted beam and a controller detects the wavelength of the beam from the generated interference signal. According to the frequency- stabilized laser apparatus and the method for stabilizing the frequency of the laser, it is possible to stabilize the frequency of the beam emitted from the semiconductor laser and output the beam having the stable frequency for a long period of time.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an absolute position measurement method, absolute position measurement device, and scale. The scale includes a scale pattern formed by replacing repetitively arranged pseudo-random codes with a sequence of N-stage linear feedback transition resisters by using a first symbol having a first width and representing a first state and a second symbol having the first width and representing a second state. The first symbol is divided into two or more first symbol areas, the second symbol is divided into two or more second symbol areas, and there is at least one overlap area having the same structure due to the overlap of the first symbol and the second symbol.