Ultrastable absolute-phase common-path optical profiler based on computer-generated holography

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 28, 1998, Pages 6716-6720

  Sawyer, Nicolas B E ^a   Wah See, Chung ^a   Clark, Matthew ^a   Somekh, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001114150     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006716     Document Type: Article

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