Self-mixing (SM) technique has been a promising optical measurement technique for a few decades.
This technique is developing toward increasing the measurement distance and the limit of displacement measurement, enhancing the measurement accuracy and improving the real-time quality of the measurement. In addition, it is also important to drop the development cost of a sensor.
Estimation of the optical feedback factor C is the key to SM displacement measurement with a better resolution than half a wavelength. But this estimation is very complex and tricky, and it thus leads to its time-consuming nature, which is one of the important causes that increase the cost and labor for the development of a self-mixing sensor. There have been many methods reported for the C estimation, but they are very time-consuming, very sensitive to noise, or can only work in a certain feedback regime.
Kim Chol Hyon, a researcher at the Faculty of Physical Engineering, has proposed a method of the C estimation using the derivative of an SM signal. So to speak, he has solved a problem of fast estimation of the parameter of an SM interferometric system with the derivative in the jumping point of an SM signal. This method is very simple, and, what is more, it can work in all regimes including weak, moderate and strong feedback regimes.
The estimation precision of the proposed method is not only comparable to that of the data fitting technique but also much simpler than that. Therefore, it is effective in low-cost high-precision SM displacement measurement.
You can find the details of this in his paper “Fast estimation method of feedback factor based on the derivative of the self-mixing signal” presented to the SCI Journal “Applied optics”.
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