Abstract

Optical and electronic means have been devised and tested for reversible counting of fringes from a corner-cube or Michelson interferometer. Counting rates of 1000/sec have been achieved but do not represent the attainable limit.

© 1953 Optical Society of America

A Bidirectional Electronic Counter for Use in Optical Interferometry*

Franklin H. Branin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(10) 839-848 (1953)

Precision Measurement of Wavelengths with Echelle Spectrographs*

George R. Harrison, Sumner P. Davis, and Hugh J. Robertson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(10) 853-861 (1953)

Interferometric Wavelength Measurement in the Infrared by the Method of Exact Orders.* Precision Measurement of the Index of Refraction of Air at 1.65μ

D. H. Rank, E. R. Shull, Jean M. Bennett, and T. A. Wiggins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(11) 952-956 (1953)

Fractional-Fringe Measurements with the Corner-Cube Interferometer

Edson R. Peck
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45(10) 795-797 (1955)

Electronic Location of Interference Fringes

James Peters and George Stroke
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(8) 668-672 (1953)