Interferometers
Combine waves to reveal their properties by measuring the pattern of interference.
See Also: Beam Splitters
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Laser Interferometers
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ZYGO laser interferometers support and enable the most demanding metrology applications in industries from semiconductor and lithography to space-borne imaging systems, cutting-edge consumer electronics, defense-related IR and thermal imaging systems and ophthalmics.
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33% Beam Splitter - BK7, fixed horizontal-bend mount
E1834E
Beam Splitter
The E1834E is a 33% beam splitter in a high performance horizontal mount that offer the high pointing stability for Keysight laser interferometer measurement system. The 8 flexure feet are designed for stable beam pointing.
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40Gb/s DQPSK Receiver
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The integrated DQPSK receiver incorporates an optical phase demodulator (delay-line interferometer or DLI) with 2 pairs of balanced photo-diodes and 2 linear TIAs into a single butterfly package. Compared with the currently available discrete solution in which a separate DLI and a separate receiver are used, the integrated DQPSK receiver eliminates labor intensive fiber routing and coupling (between the DLI and the balanced receiver) as well as the skew control. Moreover, the integrated DQPSK receiver offers a smaller footprint suitable for today’s demanding high speed transponder applications.
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SANA 2 Interferometer
CA3004
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SANA 2 fiber endface interferometer is a type of cost-efficient non-contact test instrument with excellent performance. It is able to measure the fiber endface geometry parameters such as radius of curvature, apex offset, fbre height and polishing angle of APC connector.
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67% Beam Splitter BK7, Fixed Horizontal-Bend Mount
E1834J
Beam Splitter
The E1834J is a 67% beam splitter in a high performance horizontal mount that offer the high pointing stability for Keysight laser interferometer measurement system. The 8 flexure feet are designed for stable beam pointing.
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Filmetrics® and Zeta™ Optical Profilers
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The Filmetrics® Profilm3D® and Zeta™ optical profilometers offer fast, non-contact measuring instruments for 3D step height, roughness, and other surface topography measurements, leveraging interferometer and ZDot™ measurement techniques for R&D and production environments.
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spectrometers
VERTEX 80/80v
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The VERTEX 80 and the VERTEX 80v vacuum FT-IR spectrometers are based on the actively aligned UltraScan™ interferometer, which provides PEAK spectral resolution. The precise linear air bearing scanner and PEAK quality optics guarantees the ultimate sensitivity and stability. The VERTEX 80v is an evacuated optics bench that can eliminate atmospheric moisture absorptions for ultimate sensitivity and stability; enabling demanding experiments such as high resolution, ultra fast rapidscan, step-scan, or UV spectral range measurements.
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Digital Automated Fiber & Ferrule Interferometer For Multi-Fiber Connectors
DAFFI MT
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Data-Pixel has developed a cost effective interferometer line for high volumes production without compromising accuracy or performance. Based on our extensive interferometer manufacturing experience we designed the DAFFI MT to be robust, fast and accurate in order to meet all manufacturing or laboratory environments.
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Optics
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Welcome to Thorlabs; below you will find links to optical components and systems, a subset of our entire line of photonics products. All single element optical components can be found under the optical elements link with the exception of optical components that have polarization properties since they have a separate link. Multi-element systems like beam expanders and objective lenses as well as interferometers, fiber collimators, reference cells, modulators, and other optical devices can be found by choosing the optical systems link. Thorlabs also manufactures an extensive line of free-space and fiber optic isolators; stock items ship the same day that they are ordered while our custom orders benefit from our streamlined design and manufacturing process, which minimizes lead time.
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Interferometric Laser Encoders
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The RLE system is a unique, advanced homodyne laser interferometer system specifically designed for position feedback applications.
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Turning Mirror
10769A
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The 10769A is ideal for use in laser measurement and calibration applications. In the calibration of slant bed lathes, for example, the beam steering mirror deflects the beam from the laser head upward, through the interferometer, along the lathe's cross slide. One or more mirrors can also create a path from a laser head to an interferometer located in an otherwise inaccessible position, as in the case of a milling machine with a table that moves in only one axis.
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Regeneration Station
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This equipment is a stand-alone device that enables to coherently regenerate an optical signal allowing long-haul dissemination of an ultra-stable optical frequency reference. Its architecture is based on the heterodyne phase-locking of a narrow spectral width laser diode on the reference signal. The station is equipped with low phase noise optical interferometer that perform a thorough characterization of the phase noise accumulated by the incoming signal, and a compensation system of this phase noise.
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2.5G DPSK Demodulator
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Optoplex’s Optical DPSK Demodulator, also known as Delay Line Interferometer (DLI), converts phase modulation to amplitude modulation over the entire C+L band in support of data transmission rates of 2.5, 10 or 40 Gb/s. The DPSK demodulator is designed for phase modulated optical communication systems utilized in commercial, defense and space exploration markets. The device plays a key role in improving signal quality and performance to meet the expanding demand for higher data rates and more complex transmission formats within current and next generation systems without major capital expenditure. Optoplex’s DPSK Demodulator is based on a patented free-space optical design, which is compact, athermal and polarization-independent. Themeasured frequency drift over temperature is only ~0.02 GHz/°C for our standard passive device. Further, this DPSK Demodulator exhibits a total polarizationdependent phase shift of less than 2 degrees over the entire operating temperature range with a high extinction ratio. Optoplex’s DPSK Demodulators can be configured to be fully tunable, colorless tunable or purely passive. Dual-Rate DPSK Demodulator is also available.
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Angular Optics Kit
55281A
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The Keysight 55281A Angular Optics Kit adds pitch and yaw measurement capability to the 5530 Laser Calibration System. Ideal for use in precision calibration applications, it includes the 10770A Angular Interferometer and the 10771A Angular Reflector. Together the high-accuracy plane mirror interferometer and the angular reflector measure pitch and yaw motions along each axis that a machine tool or measuring machine travels. Results are displayed directly in arc-seconds or in mm/mm (in/in).
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VME System Electronics
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Keysight VME electronics give the highest performance available in a laser interferometer system. Choose from a variety of axis and compensation boards.
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Interferometer Systems
Verifire Series
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The Verifire™ interferometer system provides fast and reliable measurements of surface form error, and transmitted wavefront of optical components, systems and assemblies.
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Digital Automated Interferometer and Microscope for Surface Inspection
DAISI-V3
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The ultimate production interferometer for measuring end-face geometry on single-fiber connectors, equipped with a revolutionary «no-exterior-moving-parts» mechanical design.
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Laser Head
5517B
Laser Head
The Keysight 5517B is used primarily in VME and PC based laser interferometer systems where the velocity of motion is slower, such as machine tool applications. Please contact Keysight for custom requirements.
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Dynamic Interferometry
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4D dynamic interferometers use patented, instantaneous phase sensors to measure the shape of surfaces with extreme accuracy, despite vibration and environmental noise.
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HES Spectrometers
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ISI’s standard HES spectrometer offers a 100-fold increase in throughput over conventional systems currently available. This increased throughput can lead to a superior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a given observation over a Czerny Turner instrument. The HES spectrometer contains no moving parts and yet offers the advantages of a Michelson Interferometer with the spectral properties of a traditional diffraction grating-based device, such as a Czerny Turner spectrometer.
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Single Beam Interferometer
10705A
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The Keysight 10705A Single Beam Interferometer, the smallest linear interferometer, is designed for making low mass or limited space single axis measurements. It is ideal for use in disk drive and other confined space applications. The single beam interferometer is called that because the outgoing and returning beams are superimposed on each other, giving the appearance of only one beam traveling between the interferometer and the retroreflector.
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Plane Mirror Reflector
10724A
Retroreflector
The Keysight 10724A reflector is used with the Keysight 10706A, 10706B, 10715A and 10716A interferometers for single-axis measurements. It can also be used with the Keysight 10737L/R Compact Three-Axis Interferometers. Alignment hardware is included.
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Laser Head
5517FL
Laser Head
The Keysight 5517FL is used primarily in VME and PC based laser interferometer systems where the velocity of motion is faster, such as semiconductor lithography and flat panel applications. Please contact Keysight for custom requirements.
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PC System Electronics
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Keysight PC electronics provide state of the art laser interferometer performance in the convenient PC backplane format. Axis, servo-axis and compensation boards are available.
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Inside Dimension (ID) Measuring Instruments
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Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, Inc.
High accuracy is maintained by its laser interferometer, zero Abbe offset design, and large measuring table with swivel, center, tilt, and elevation control knobs.
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Create Topographic Profiles from SPM Images
TopoStitch
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topoStitch™ offers the easiest and most accurate way to stitch topographic or greyscale images from Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPM’s), profilers, interferometers, confocal microscopes or any other instrument type. All images are placed automatically according to stage position coordinates when stored in the image files. Otherwise, the Grid Layout Wizard helps to lay out images in seconds. topoStitch™ even offers advanced snapping and semi transparent rendering, which makes it easy to place and adjust images manually.
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Fourier Transform Optical Spectrum Analyzer, 600 - 1700 nm
OSA202C
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Thorlabs' Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) perform highly accurate spectral measurements. Compatible with fiber-coupled and free-space light sources, these compact benchtop instruments suit a wide variety of applications, such as analyzing the spectrum of a telecom signal, resolving the Fabry-Perot modes of a gain chip, and identifying gas absorption lines. Many commonly available OSAs use grating-based monochromators, which have slow acquisition times due to the need to mechanically scan the grating and average out noise at each wavelength. Thorlabs' OSAs acquire the spectrum via a Fourier transform using a scanning Michelson interferometer in a push/pull configuration. This approach dramatically improves the acquisition time, enables a high-precision wavelength meter mode with 7 significant figures and ±1 part-per-million accuracy, and allows the included software to provide robust statistical analysis of the acquired spectra, as explained in the Design tab.
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Linear Interferometer
10766A
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The Keysight 10766A Linear Interferometer is used for general purpose single axis measurements and can be employed when the interferometer is the moving component, instead of the measurement reflector. It has a rugged, thermally stable stainless steel housing.
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Mach-Zehnder Fiber Interferometer
MZI
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OPTIPHASE , a leading supplier of ultra-high performance interferometric systems, offers Fiber Interferometers for use in precision test and measurement instrumentation as well as fiber sensing systems. These interferometers are driven by our own PZ1 Low-profile Fiber Stretcher with enhanced modulation, through a front panel BNC connector. Michelson and Mach-Zehnder interferometers are available in wavelengths from 1064 to 1550 nm. Each interferometer has a “zero meter” path mismatch which provides flexibility to change the delay length to match varying test applications. The standard length shipped is 50 meters. We also build custom interferometers.
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Fiber End-Face Inspection Interferometer
CLEAVEMETER 3D
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The CLEAVEMETER 3D™ is a non-contact interferometer designed for inspecting the end-faces of cleaved or polished optical fibers with cladding diameters of 125 µm to 1200 µm. It gives immediate and precise information on important end-face properties such as flatness, perpendicularity, hackles and dust. Based on the NYFORS CLEAVEMETER 3D™ design, in addition to producing sharp fringe patterns it also generates three-dimensional images of the cleaved fiber end.





























