Real-time phase-front detector for heterodyne interferometers. Academic Article

abstract

• We present a real-time differential phase-front detector sensitive to better than 3 mrad rms, which corresponds to a precision of approximately 500 pm. This detector performs a spatially resolving measurement of the phase front of a heterodyne interferometer, with heterodyne frequencies up to approximately 10 kHz. This instrument was developed as part of the research for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Technology Package interferometer and will assist in the manufacture of its flight model. Because of the advantages this instrument offers, it also has general applications in optical metrology.

authors

• Guzman, Felipe

published proceedings

• Appl Opt

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Cervantes, F. G., Heinzel, G., Marn, A., Wand, V., Steier, F., Jennrich, O., & Danzmann, K.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán||Heinzel, Gerhard||Marín, Antonio F García||Wand, Vinzenz||Steier, Frank||Jennrich, Oliver||Danzmann, Karsten

publication date

• July 2007

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• n1559-128XISSN  Journal

PubMed Central ID

• 17609698

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ao.46.004541

start page

• 4541

end page

• 4548

volume

• 46

issue

• 21

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.46.004541