High-speed simultaneous measurement of refractive index and thickness of transparent plates by low-coherence interferometry and confocal optics

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1531-1535

  Ohmi, Masato ^a   Nishi, Hisami ^b   Konishi, Yasushi ^c   Yamada, Yoshiyuki ^c   Haruna, Masamitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Neoark Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence gate; Confocal optics; High speed measurement; Low coherence interferometry; Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and thickness

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

COHERENCE-GATE; CONFOCAL SIGNALS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 4043116373     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/017     Document Type: Article

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