Angle measurement based on the internal-reflection effect using elongated critical-angle prisms

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2239-2241

  Huang, P S ^a,b   Ni, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle measurement; Internal reflection; Multiple reflections; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLASS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LINEARIZATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ELONGATED CRITICAL ANGLE PRISMS; INTERNAL REFLECTION; NONLINEARITY ERROR; NONPARALLELISM ERROR; REFLECTANCE;

PRISMS;

EID: 0030151056     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002239     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. P. S. Huang, S. Kiyono, and O. Kamada, “Angle measurement based on the internal-reflection effect: a new method,” Appl. Opt. 31, 6047-6055 (1992).
2. P. S. Huang, “Laser optical measurement systems and their application to the on-line error compensation of coordinate measuring machines,” Ph.D. dissertation (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993), pp. 131-135.