Displacement and distance measurement using the change in junction voltage across a laser diode due to the self-mixing effect

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6038, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lim, Yah Leng ^a   Bertling, K ^a   Rio, Pierre ^b   Tucker, J R ^a   Rakic A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Laser range finder; Optical feedback; Self mixing; VCSEL; Voltage sensing

Indexed keywords

LASER RANGE FINDERS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; SELF-MIXING; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL); VOLTAGE SENSING;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FEEDBACK; MIXING; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODIODES; RANGE FINDERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 33645667031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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