A modified commercial scanner as an image plate for table-top optical applications.
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.
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Departamento de Quimica Fisica I, MALTA Consolider Team, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain.
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Cáceres
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Baonza
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