Fringe modulation skewing effect in white-light vertical scanning interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2101-2106

  Harasaki, Akiko ^a   Wyant, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY;

WHITE-LIGHT;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0010005782     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002101     Document Type: Article

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