Polarization properties of cube-corner retroreflectors and their effects on signal strength and nonlinearity in heterodyne interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 4372-4380

  Park, B C ^a   Eom, T B ^a   Chung, M S ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cube corner; Heterodyne interferometer; Nonlinearity error; Polarization property; Signal strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001742633     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004372     Document Type: Article

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