Accurate noncontact optical fiber diameter measurement with spectral interferometry

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 601-603

  Jasapara, J ^a   Monberg, E ^a   DiMarcello, F ^a   Nicholson, J W ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0037447167     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000601     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Many companies, such as Anritsu, TSI, Lasermike, and TLA, manufacture commercial laser diameter gauges that work with the shadowing technique, in which a laser beam is scanned across an object, and the transmitted light is analyzed for retrieval of the dimension of the object.
2. L. S. Watkins, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64, 767 (1974).
3. D. H. Smithgall, L. S. Watkins, and R. E. Frazee, Jr., Appl. Opt. 16, 2395 (1977).