title: A modified commercial scanner as an image plate for table-top optical applications.
abstract: A reliable, accurate, and inexpensive optical detector for table-top applications is described here. Based on a commercial high resolution office scanner coupled to a projection plate, the detector offers a large image plate surface, allowing recording of sizeable images without systematic errors associated with coupling optics aberrations. Several tests on distance-dependent and steady interference patterns are presented and discussed. The extension to other types of optical measurements by substituting the projection plate is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Quimica Fisica I, MALTA Consolider Team, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Casado-Rojo
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Lorenzana
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cáceres
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Baonza