Some Applications of the Murty Interferometer: A Review

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-42

  Shukla, R P ^a   Malacara, Daniel ^b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; GLASS; LENSES; LIQUIDS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPARENCY;

GLASS WINDOWS; HOMOGENEITY; OPTICAL DISTORTION; PARABOLOIDAL MIRRORS; PARALLEL PLATES; SPHERICAL MIRRORS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0031060024     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0143-8166(95)00069-0     Document Type: Review

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