Achieving high resolution measurement using laser diode operating at period one

Yuxi Ruan; Bairun Nie; Yanguang Yu; Jiangtao Xi; Qinghua Guo; Jun Tong; Zhuqiu Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2542592

12 November 2019 Achieving high resolution measurement using laser diode operating at period one

Yuxi Ruan, Bairun Nie, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong, Zhuqiu Chen

Proceedings Volume 11197, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies; 111970I (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542592
Event: SPIE Future Sensing Technologies, 2019, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

When a part of light emitted by a laser is back-reflected or back-scattered from an external target and re-enters the laser cavity, both the laser intensity and its wavelength can be modulated. This is so-called self-mixing effect (SME), the optical feedback interferometry (OFI) utilizes such effect in an LD developed various applications. In this paper, we use a dualcavity OFI system that operating in period one state, the laser intensity from this system exhibits an oscillation with its amplitude modulated by a traditional single cavity OFI signal. The dual-cavity OFI system has the same measurement resolution as the single cavity which is half laser wavelength. This paper developed a method to improve the resolution by using fringe subdivision. Our simulation result shows that this method can achieve subnanometer resolution.

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Yuxi Ruan, Bairun Nie, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong, and Zhuqiu Chen "Achieving high resolution measurement using laser diode operating at period one", Proc. SPIE 11197, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies, 111970I (12 November 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2542592

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