Angle measurement using total-internal-reflection heterodyne interferometry

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1750-1753

  Chiu, Ming Horng ^a   Su, Der Chin ^a,b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Department of Photonics   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angle measurement; Heterodyne interferometry; Total internal reflection effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012629984     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601200     Document Type: Article

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