Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information
of a onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation
separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and
being coherent with respect to the other of the sources, a control system
moving each of the sources relative to the other of the sources, and a
detector positioned to receive radiation scattered from the point on the
surface of the object. In another embodiment, the two sources of
radiation include, an initial source of a beam of radiation having a
spectral width, a beam separator in optical communication with the
initial source of a beam of radiation generating a first optical beam and
a second optical beam, and an imaging system optically connected to the
beam separator.