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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1983
The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to unequal path interferometers which are adapted, among other possible uses, for use in detecting coherent radiation as from a laser in a packet of radiation including incoherent background radiation, which includes an unequal optical path length interferometer of the type in which portions of the radiation impinging on the interferometric component are caused to be recombined after travelling two different optical paths; the optical paths differing in length by an amount substantially greater than the coherence length of the non-coherent radiation but substantially less than the coherence length of the coherent radiation; the unequal optical path length interferometric component including a crystalline cell having anisotropic properties; circuitry for applying an ultrasonic sound wave to the crystalline cell to vary the effective index of refraction of the crystalline cell in a preselected systematic manner; a detector for detecting the intensity of the recombined portions and producing a signal representative thereof, said signal having a variable component caused by the varying constructive and destructive interference of the recombined coherent radiation components, while the recombined non-coherent radiation components produce only a substantially steady background signal.