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Method and apparatus for positioning object in space using a low-coherence laser beam which is reflected by two references to sharpen the interference fringe lines

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In this article, an object is positioned in space by using a beam splitter to split a low-coherence laser light beam into a probe beam and a reference beam, while the reference beam is reflected by a pair of mirrors synchronized along light paths and scanned at different amplitudes, to form two beams of equal intensity.
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An object is positioned in space by using a beam splitter to split a low-coherence laser light beam into a probe beam and a reference beam. The probe beam is projected at the target object, while the reference beam is reflected by a pair of mirrors synchronized along light paths and scanned at different amplitudes, to form two beams of equal intensity, and light reflected by the object and the interference fringes are detected together to obtain fringe signals with sharpened profile lines.

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