Abstract:
An absolute encoder includes a scale in which plural marks are arranged at a first pitch; a detector configured to detect a predetermined number of marks corresponding to one of the absolute codes; and a calculator configured to calculate an absolute position of the scale based on an output of the detector. The calculator is configured to generate a data sequence constituted by the predetermined number of data by respectively quantizing the predetermined number of periodic signals output from the detector, and to obtain first position data corresponding to the one of the absolute codes based on the generated data sequence, to obtain second position data based on a phase of at least one of the predetermined number of periodic signals, and to generate data which represents the absolute position by combining the first position data and the second position data.
Abstract:
A heterodyne interferometry displacement measurement apparatus includes a first optical system including a light source (LASER) and a diffraction grating (GT0) that generates two diffracted lights to combine the two diffracted lights to generate a combined light and that causes the two diffracted lights to interfere with each other to generate a first frequency difference signal, a second optical system that converts the combined light into two lights of which frequencies are different from each other by a second frequency difference in accordance with a displacement of an object and that causes the two lights to interfere with each other to generate a second frequency difference signal, and an output device that outputs information of a displacement amount of the object based on the first frequency difference signal and the second frequency difference signal.
Abstract:
A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence and having a central wavelength difference from that of the first beam are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. First and second multiplexed beams obtained by beam splitting are emitted at a measurement reflection plane and a reference plane, respectively. The reflected first and second multiplexed beams are multiplexed and interfere with each other. The interference generates a first interference signal that is obtained from the first beams at the interference unit and that relates to information on the distance to the measurement reflection plane and a second interference signal that is obtained from the second beams. The first and second interference signals are used to carry out calculations for determining the position of a measurement origin for the measurement reflection plane.
Abstract:
A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence and having a central wavelength difference from that of the first beam are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. First and second multiplexed beams obtained by beam splitting are emitted at a measurement reflection plane and a reference plane, respectively. The reflected first and second multiplexed beams are multiplexed and interfere with each other. The interference generates a first interference signal that is obtained from the first beams at the interference unit and that relates to information on the distance to the measurement reflection plane and a second interference signal that is obtained from the second beams. The first and second interference signals are used to carry out calculations for determining the position of a measurement origin for the measurement reflection plane.
Abstract:
An interferometer has a semiconductor laser which oscillates in multiple modes, an optical member for providing a beam from the semiconductor laser with a substantial optical path difference between optical paths partially in one beam, and an interference optical system for causing interference, using the beam having traveled via the optical member.
Abstract:
A displacement measurement apparatus includes a first diffraction grating transmitting light from a light source and producing diffracted beams including first to third diffracted beams output in different directions; a second diffraction grating movable together with an object to be measured, provided in a plane parallel to the first diffraction grating, and reflecting the first to third diffracted beams transmitted through the first diffraction grating; a first photodetector receiving the first and second diffracted beams diffracted by the second diffraction grating; a second photodetector receiving at least the third diffracted beam transmitted through the first diffraction grating; and a calculation unit calculating displacement of the object in a first direction in accordance with the beams received by the first photodetector, and displacement of the object in a second direction, different from the first direction, in accordance with the beam received by the second photodetector.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a light source, a scale which is configured to have first and second diffraction grating portions which differ from each other in a grating pitch, a light receiving portion configured to receive first and second interference light fluxes generated from interference of a plurality of diffraction light fluxes, at the first and second diffraction grating portions, respectively, a light flux emitted from the light source and have different orders of diffraction, and to output first and second periodic signals based on an intensity of the first and second interference light fluxes, respectively, and a computing unit configured to output, based on the first and second periodic signals a signal representing an origin of displacement of the scale.
Abstract:
A displacement measurement apparatus includes a first diffraction grating transmitting light from a light source and producing diffracted beams including first to third diffracted beams output in different directions; a second diffraction grating movable together with an object to be measured, provided in a plane parallel to the first diffraction grating, and reflecting the first to third diffracted beams transmitted through the first diffraction grating; a first photodetector receiving the first and second diffracted beams diffracted by the second diffraction grating; a second photodetector receiving at least the third diffracted beam transmitted through the first diffraction grating; and a calculation unit calculating displacement of the object in a first direction in accordance with the beams received by the first photodetector, and displacement of the object in a second direction, different from the first direction, in accordance with the beam received by the second photodetector.
Abstract:
Interference measuring apparatus having an optical system for dividing a coherent light beam into two light beams, and causing the divided two light beams to pass along discrete optical paths. The light beams are made into linearly polarized light beams orthogonal to each other and given modulation to the phase of the wave front of at least one of them. The wave fronts of the linearly polarized light beams are superposed one upon the others. A light dividing member divides the light beams superposed one upon the other by the optical system into a plurality of light beams. A polarizing plate takes out each light beam with a 45° polarized component, and a plurality of light receiving elements individually receive the light beams taken out by the polarizing plate.
Abstract:
Provided is a grating interference type optical encoder including a scale board, a diffraction grating located on the scale board, a light receiving element, an illumination optical system for emitting a coherent light fluxes to the diffraction grating on the scale board that relatively moves, to produce two diffraction light fluxes having different orders, an arc-shaped grating for re-emitting to the diffraction grating the two diffraction light fluxes having the different orders which are produced in the diffraction grating portion through a deflection unit, and a light guiding unit for superimposing rediffraction light fluxes produced by rediffracting the diffraction light fluxes re-emitted to the diffraction grating and guiding the superimposed rediffraction light fluxes to the light receiving element. The grating interference type optical encoder further includes: a phase grating that divides the rediffraction light fluxes superimposed between the diffraction grating and the light receiving element into a plurality of light fluxes, and a linear deflection element having different deflection directions corresponding to the plurality of light fluxes divided by the phase grating.