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A Noncontact Optical Sensor Development for Measuring the Thickness of Transparent Plates  

Ryu, Young-Kee (Sunmoon University)
Oh, Choonsuk (Sunmoon University)
Lee, Seoyoung (Sunmoon University)
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Abstract
The noncontact optical sensor using the hologram laser and automatic power controller is developed to measure a thickness of transparent objects and achieve excellent performance. Due to the contact between the tip of the sensor and the surface of objects, the tip is abraded. In addition the casting glass under high temperature results in extending the size of sensor body. The accuracy of the sensor is degraded due to these reasons. In this paper, to overcome these problems, we proposed a low cost non-contact optical sensor that is composed of a hologram laser unit used for optical pickup of CD player and a plastic lens. Therefore the problems caused by the contact sensor are solved by using the noncontact sensor. The noncontact sensor has to move toward the objects and obtain the focus error signal to measure a position of transparent objects. While the internal temperature of the sensor is controlled under ${\pm}0.1^{\circ}$, many trials shows ${\pm}2{\mu}m$ measurement error as excellent performance.
Keywords
Hologram laser diode; Automatic power controller; Noncontact optical sensor; Transparent object;
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