International Business Machines Corporation

Maho Aktiengesellschaft

Dentsply Sirona Inc.

Hausler, Gerd

Gerd Hausler

Gunter Makosch

Walter Jarisch

A method and device is disclosed wherein a subject is excited by electromagnetic radiation in a locally limited range to emit radiation that is not coherent with the exciting radiation. The radiation of atoms lying close to one another on the surface of the subject is not correlated, i.e., the excited point of light radiates incoherently in space, and generally also in time. Since only this incoherent radiation emitted by the point of light is analyzed in distance determination, no speckle structure occurs in the point of light, which makes it possible more accurately to find the position of the point of light and thus also to find the distance much more accurately.

Method and a device for a highly accurate measurement of distances,

Interferometric devices wherein two beams (the object and reference beams) interfere are rendered insensitive to deformations in the ideally planar wave fronts of the two beams by making the deformations identical through optical phase mixing. For arrangements wherein the beams to be superposed upon each other are symmetrically guided, phase symmetrized output beams are formed from a common input beam by making the input beam perpendicularly incident upon a partially reflecting hypotenuse face of a roof prism or axicon. Rays positioned symmetrically with respect to the center plane of the prism or the center axis of the axicon become mixed because the portion of each reflected by the hypotenuse face becomes superposed with the transmitted portion of the other after total reflection inside the prism or axicon, yielding two output beams with a symmetrical phase distribution with respect to the center plane of the prism or the center axis of the axicon.

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Erlangen, Germany

Gerd Hausler