Simultaneous Measurement of Absolute Distance and Angle Based on Dispersive Interferometry

Abstract

We present a dispersive interferometry of optical frequency comb for simultaneous measuring absolute distance and angle. The reconfigured Michelson interferometer can emit two parallel measured beams and one reference beam. The three pulse beams interfere with each other, and the interference spectrum is sampled by a spectrometer. It is simultaneously modulated by the three optical path differences, which contains the information of absolute distance and angle and can be demodulated by a Fourier transform. By making an angle measurement comparison with a calibrated turntable, the proposed method shows that the obtained mutual agreement is better than 3 arcsec in the range of ± 5°. The commercial interferometer and autocollimator are used to verify the feasibility of the proposed method for precision distance and angle measurement.