Precision Metrology Using Ultrashort Pulse Laser and Optical Frequency Comb
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 15976
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical sensors; precision nanometrology; precision engineering
Interests: precision engineering; optical metrology; optical frequency comb
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Interests: optical nanometrology; optical frequency comb; Lidar
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Interests: nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines; precision nanometrology; precision engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ultrashort pulse lasers with pulse widths in the order of pico-, femto-, and even atto-arcseconds are playing important roles in many areas of measurement science and technology. The creation of the optical frequency comb based on ultrashort pulses led to a revolutionary simplification and improvement in optical frequency metrology at the end of the last centrury. The use of the ultrshort pulse laser and optical frequency comb is also leading to innovations in precision metrology for the dimensional and geometrical measurement of precision parts as well as the motion measurement of machines and robots.
This Special Issue aims to address to all types of sensors, measuring instruments, and measurement technologies based on the ultrashort pulse laser and optical frequency comb for precision measurement, including but not limited to:
- The measurement of length, thickness, distance, and strain, angle;
- The measurement of linear/angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration;
- The measurement of surface form and surface texture;
- The measurement of the external and internal 2D/3D structures of biological and nonbiological materials;
- The measurement of diffractive index and the mechanical properties of materials;
- Microscopy using an ultrashort-pulse laser source and the optical frequency comb;
- Optical frequency comb spectroscopy;
- The development of a visible/infrared ultrashort pulse laser source;
- The phase stabilization of the optical frequency comb;
- Related measurement standards and traceability.
All the papers included in this special issue will be referenced and cited in a keynote paper of CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology to be published in 2025.
Prof. Dr. Wei Gao
Prof. Dr. Seung-Woo Kim
Dr. Guanhao Wu
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Manske
Guest Editors
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