Method of and apparatus for measuring thickness and refractive i

Optics: measuring and testing – By particle light scattering – With photocell detection

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356 731, 356357, 356361, G01B 902

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ABSTRACT:
A body transparent to laser radiation, such as an optical fiber or a preform thereof in the process of manufacture, is transluminated by a monochromatic beam of a frequency in the THz range split off from a composite laser beam with two closely spaced frequencies produced by the Zeeman effect. Another monochromatic beam of the second laser frequency bypasses the transparent body and is photoelectrically recombined with the first beam to provide an electrical measuring wave at a beat frequency in the MHz range differing in phase from an electrical reference wave of the same beat frequency, similarly derived from the original laser beam, to an extent determined by the refractive index and the thickness of the transluminated body. Two or more phase comparisons are made with different angles of incidence of the transluminating beam and their results are compared for an arithmetic determination of refractive index and thickness.

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Article entitled "Fundamentals of Optics", by Francis A. Jenkins, and Harvey E. White, pp. 16-22.

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