Acoustic method for determination of the effective temperature and refractive index of air in accurate length interferometry

Virpi Korpelainen; Antti Lassila

doi:10.1117/1.1787834

1 October 2004 Acoustic method for determination of the effective temperature and refractive index of air in accurate length interferometry

Virpi Korpelainen, Antti Lassila

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 10, (October 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1787834

Abstract

An acoustic method for the measurement of the effective temperature and refractive index of air for precision length interferometry is described. The method can be used to improve the accuracy of interferometric length measurements outside the best laboratory conditions and also in industrial conditions. The method is based on the measurement of speed of 50-kHz ultrasound over the same distance measured with a laser interferometer. The measured speed of ultrasound is used to define the effective temperature or the refractive index of air along the laser beam path using the equations presented. The measured speed of sound, Cramer equation, dispersion correction, and Edlén equations are used in the fitting of new equations for the effective air temperature and refractive index of air as a function of speed of 50-kHz ultrasound. The standard uncertainties of the effective temperature and the refractive index of air equations are 15 mK and 1.7×10^–8, respectively. The uncertainties of the effective temperature and refractive index of air measured with the test setup for distances of about 5 m are 25 mK and 2.6×10^–8, respectively.

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Virpi Korpelainen and Antti Lassila "Acoustic method for determination of the effective temperature and refractive index of air in accurate length interferometry," Optical Engineering 43(10), (1 October 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1787834

Published: 1 October 2004

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