Papers Published

1. Potuluri, P. and Gehm, M.E. and Sullivan, M.E. and Brady, D.J., Measurement-efficient optical wavemeters, Opt. Express (USA), vol. 12 no. 25 (2004) .
   (last updated on 2007/04/11)

   Abstract:
   We describe a method for efficiently determining the wavelength of a monochromatic source and provide an experimental proof-of-concept. The photomeasurement efficiency for a wavemeter can be written as η(N,q) = (1 + log_qN)/m, where N is the number of spectral channels, q is the number of distinguishable output levels per photodetector, and m is the actual number of photomeasurements made. An implementation is developed that achieves a theoretical efficiency of η(N,q) = 1. The proof-of-concept experiment achieves efficiencies η = O(1), where the deviation from theory is attributable to well-known optical effects and should be correctable in future versions

   Keywords:
   laser variables measurement;photodetectors;photometers;photometry;wavemeters;