The invention discloses a nonlinear-error-free
laser heterodyne interferometer
system for angle measurement, wherein the nonlinear-error-free
laser heterodyne interferometer
system comprises a single-frequency
laser source, an acousto-optical
frequency shift unit, an optical interference device, a planar mirror which moves along with the movement of a measured member, and a phase detecting device, wherein the single-frequency
laser source and the acousto-optical
frequency shift unit can operate for generating an incident
light beam which has no frequency
aliasing and has certain
frequency difference and is spatially separated. Under the function of the optical interference device, the incident
light beam is reflected twice by the planar mirror. Finally the reflected incident
light beam is input to the phase detecting device. The
yaw angle of the measured member is determined by means of change amount of the
phase difference. Between generation of a measuring light beam with certain
frequency difference from the acousto-optical
frequency shift unit and interference, the transmission paths are separated and are spatially independent. The nonlinear-error-free laser
heterodyne interferometer
system prevents a periodical nonlinear error which is caused by polarized light with two frequencies in the interference
optical path, thereby effectively improving measurement accuracy. The nonlinear-error-free laser
heterodyne interferometer system can be widely used for
geometric quantity precise measurement in the fields of
numerical control machine tools, military industry,
spaceflight, etc.