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Automation of a 1960s Hilger gauge block interferometer

E F Howick1, L R Watkins2 and S M Tan2

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This paper describes improvements to a Hilger gauge block interferometer, including a fibre optic feed for a traceable laser radiation, use of a CCD camera for computer-controlled acquisition of fringe images and automatic analysis of the fringe image to obtain the fringe fraction. The gauge measuring process is now automated, computer-controlled, more accurate and significantly faster and easier to operate than the original design.


PACS

07.60.Ly Interferometers

42.79.Pw Imaging detectors and sensors

42.30.Ms Speckle and moire patterns

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 4 (August 2003)

Received 26 August 2002

Published 13 June 2003



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