Distance measurements using two frequency-stabilized Nd:YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 3010-3015

  Mahal, Vered ^a   Arie, Ady ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Frequency stabilized laser; Phase shifting interferometry; Two wavelength interferometry

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPOLATION; IODINE; LASER MODE LOCKING; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; RADIOISOTOPES;

FREQUENCY STABILIZED LASERS; FRINGE CONTRAST; MOLECULAR ABSORBERS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; TWO WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0030173873     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003010     Document Type: Article

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