A two 
beam laser interference measuring method to measure thermal material expansion coefficient relates to two 
beam laser interference measuring for thermal material expansion coefficient. A tested sample is positioned into a 
fastener of a highly vacuum 
heating furnace and the 
heating furnace is vacuumized below 10-4Pa. A 
laser emitting box of a SIOS-SP120D 
laser interference instrument emits two beams of 
laser onto a surface of the tested sample, thus making the lasers reflected to respectively return to a laser emitting port along an original path through the sample surface and forming interference with incident laser. 
Laser path displacement of the laser beam a and b respectively achieves 
Delta a and 
Delta b according to measuring. Expansion of the tested sample in section L is 
Delta L according to a difference between Delta a and Delta b. A K type 
thermocouple measures temperature of the tested sampled in the highly vacuum 
heating furnace. Temperature data will be collected through a data collection data. The 
thermal expansion of the tested sample of the present invention is a difference of laser path displacement between two 
laser beams totally offset 
system errors of single-
beam laser resulting from 
thermal expansion of sampling table and clamp, etc. Therefore, the method completely eliminates 
system errors while measuring the 
thermal expansion, improves measuring precision and accurately reflects process of material 
phase variation.