Introduction
The temporal carrier beat frequencies in an optical heterodyne interferometer can be generated by ramping the wavelength in a laser diode (LD) based on the frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) techniques [1,2]. The beat frequency is proportional to the optical path difference (OPD) of each pair of interfering beams in an interferometer [3]. It enables us to construct an optical heterodyne interferometer on an unbalanced OPD without auxiliary frequency modulators. Multiple-beam interferometry can produce the different beat frequencies by using a wavelength-tunable LD [4]. An LD interferometer has been applied to 3-D imaging by using the optical frequency domain reflectometry [5]. A technique of a holographic radar has been applied to measure the range information with a frequency-tunable laser [6]. 3-D object can be holographically reconstructed by the electronic tuning with beat signals by a current-modulated LD [7]. A phase-shifting common-path interferometer has been demonstrated with a biprism beam splitter [8].
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Yukita, S., Ishii, Y., Kiyohara, K., Chen, J., Tokunaga, E. (2014). Heterodyne Common-Path Interference Microscope with a Wavelength-Tunable Diode Source. In: Osten, W. (eds) Fringe 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36359-7_148
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