Modified white-light Mach-Zehnder interferometer for direct group-delay measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4105-4111

  Liang, Yi ^a   Grover, Chandler P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0001462146     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004105     Document Type: Article

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