Modulated white-LED interferometer

Tatsuo Shiina; Noboru Izuhara; Masafumi Ito; Yasuyuki Okamura

doi:10.1117/12.481970

9 September 2002 Modulated white-LED interferometer

Tatsuo Shiina, Noboru Izuhara, Masafumi Ito, Yasuyuki Okamura

Proceedings Volume 4920, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481970
Event: Photonics Asia, 2002, Shanghai, China

Abstract

ZnSe and InGaN based white-LEDs have been utilized for an interferometer. These white-LED consist of blue-LED light and yellowish green one. When these white-LED were modulated by rectangular wave, there were differences in response speed between blue-LED light and yellowish light. The response speed of blue-LED light of ZnSe type white-LED was 50ns, while that of yellowish light was 5?s. The spectral bandwidths of the blue-LED light and the yellowish light were 10nm and 100nm, respectively. Coherence lengths of these lights were 10?m and 2?m, respectively. Combining the blue-LED light with the yellowish light, we observe an unique interference when scanning the optical path of the low coherence interferometer. We also propose a method for a color separation of an interference in a low coherence interferometer with the ZnSe white-LED modulation. The ZnSe white-LED was modulated with much higher frequency (100kHz) than the Doppler frequency of the above interference. The interference fringe of white light appeared at the upper side on the rectangular modulated light emission, while that of the residual yellowish light was presented at the bottom. The interference fringe of the blue light was derived by subtracting the yellowish light interference from the white light one.

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Tatsuo Shiina, Noboru Izuhara, Masafumi Ito, and Yasuyuki Okamura "Modulated white-LED interferometer", Proc. SPIE 4920, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications, (9 September 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481970

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