Heterodyne absolute distance interferometer with a dual-mode HeNe laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 246-249

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Zhou, Ting ^b   Li, Dacheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Absolute distance interferometry; Heterodyne interferometer; Mode mixing; Phase measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001676910     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602273     Document Type: Article

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