Optical-feedback semiconductor laser michelson interferometer for displacement measurements with directional discrimination

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 506-513

  Rodrigo, Peter John ^a   Lim, May ^a   Saloma, Caesar ^a  

^a University of the Philippines ^*  (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; VECTORS;

FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0009461376     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000506     Document Type: Article

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