• DocumentCode
    2243404
  • Title

    Toward a picometer displacement-sensing interferometry for the next generation of calculable capacitor

  • Author

    Durand, Mathieu ; Lawall, John ; Wang, Yicheng

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Meas. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A high resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer system is designed to measure displacement by measuring both the cavity mode spacing and absolute mode position shifts. We achieve a fractional uncertainty of 2 × 10-9/√Hz without any optical frequency standard.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot interferometers; capacitors; displacement measurement; electrodes; absolute mode position shifts; calculable capacitor; cavity mode spacing; displacement measurement; fractional uncertainty; high resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer system; picometer displacement-sensing interferometry; Cavity resonators; Displacement measurement; Frequency measurement; Laser mode locking; Laser transitions; Length measurement; Measurement by laser beam;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950744