Development of a line-scan CCD-based fringe tracker for optical interferometry
2003年にフルブライト奨学金を受けてカリフォルニア大学アーバイン校で大型分割望遠鏡の位相整合を研究した。\n光学測定と大型分割望遠鏡の位相整合を研究分野とし、Sensofarの研究開発グループをイノベーションと高い技術レベルで常に最先端に立つ卓越した位置付けへと導いている。
Development of a line-scan CCD-based fringe tracker for optical interferometry full article
Agustí Pintó1, Ferran Laguarta1
1Center for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development (CD6), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Rambla Sant Nebridi, 10, E-08222 Terrassa, Spain.
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 26, pp. 6694-6701 (2006)
Abstract
Traditional high-precision optical techniques, such as interferometry, are in ever-greater demand for noncontrolled environments. This is the case for the UPC-ZEBRA, a large-aperture interferometer that was built to measure vertical discontinuities (i.e., piston errors) in segmented mirrors. The large mechanical systems used to drive the interferometer to the different measurement positions generate perturbations that are highly incompatible with the expected piston measurements on the nanometer scale. We introduce a new system based on a line-scan CCD to track interference fringes. The error signal obtained from this fringe tracker has been used in a closed-loop control system to actively stabilize the interferometer. The perturbation has been attenuated by a factor of 1/200.