The invention discloses a birefringent
laser self-mixing
Doppler velocity measurement method, which is based on a self-mixing interference effect of a large-frequency-difference birefringent double-frequency He-Ne
laser, and comprises the steps of firstly, detecting the same moving target by utilizing two orthogonal polarization
laser modes generated by the laser, and generating self-mixing interference at the same time; if a user wants to obtain self-mixing interference signals of two orthogonal polarization laser
modes, separately detecting the two
modes at a detection end of the
system by using a Wollaston polarization splitting
prism, carrying out independent detection by using two photoelectric detectors to obtain
Doppler frequency shift mixing signals, extracting difference frequencyitems in the mixing signals, and finally, calculating the actual movement speed of a target by utilizing the
linear relation between
Doppler frequency shift and speed. According to the invention, themeasurable range of the self-mixing interference
speed measurement technology is effectively expanded, and the optical carrier
microwave frequency mainly depends on a
birefringent crystal element ofthe laser cavity, so that the stability is very high, and the
speed measurement precision is remarkably improved.