Reflective grating interferometer: A folded reversal wave-front interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4845-4849

  Nicola, Sergio De ^a   Ferraro, Pietro ^a,b   Finizio, Andrea ^a   Pierattini, Giovanni ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale VIII Augusto Righi   (Italy)

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EID: 0001534718     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004845     Document Type: Article

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