title: Phase-shift-locked interferometer with a wavelength-modulated laser diode.
abstract: A phase-shift-locked interferometer has been constructed for distance measurement. A phase shift produced by sawtooth-current modulation of a laser diode is locked to a phase difference preset by polarization optics that consists of a quarter-wave plate and polarizers through an electrical feedback technique. An optical path difference can be measured from the locked sawtooth-wave current amplitude in real time. The sensitivity of the interferometer is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics, University of Industrial Technology, 4-1-1 Hashimotodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-1196, Japan. onodera@uitec.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ribun
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Onodera
authors.forename: Yukihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishii