Improved technique for measuring small angles

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7104-7106

  Chiu, Ming Horng ^a   Su, Der Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heterodyne interferometry; Total internal reflection effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012631163     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007104     Document Type: Article

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