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High-accuracy correction of air refractive index by using two-color heterodyne interferometry of optical frequency combs

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: High-accuracy two-color heterodyne interferometry based on fundamental and second harmonic of frequency combs for air refractive index correction is developed. A monitor interferometer as well as a probe interferometer is constructed to compensate the phase noises and drifts, which are caused by introducing the acousto-optic modulators for heterodyne interferometer, to realize high-accuracy measurement of optical distance. A relative stability of 10 −10 to the total length for 500 s is achieved in the measurement of an optical path length difference between two wavelengths. In long-term measurements, the interferometric measurement results and the calculations from empirical equation of air refractive indices are in good agreement with a standard deviation of 4.1 × 10 −10 throughout the 10 h period. By applying the two-color method, high-accuracy correction of air refractive index with an uncertainty of 8.9 × 10 −8 is achieved during 10 h continuous measurements while the total refractive index changes with a range of 2.0 × 10 −6 .

Source: Measurement Science and Technology

DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/24/1/015203

Authors: Guanhao Wu, Kaoru Arai, Mayumi Takahashi, Hajime Inaba, Kaoru Minoshima

Institutions: National Metrology Institute of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Tokyo University of Science, NTT (Japan)

Language: English

Topic: Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Initiative Scientific Research Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Award: 融合数字图像与激光测距数据的三维地形测量系统研究