Contrast analysis for a fiber-optic white-light interferometric system

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 34, 1997, Pages 8862-8870

  Woźniak, Władysław A ^a   Kurzynowski, Piotr ^a   Urbańczyk, Wacław ^a   Bock, Wojtek J ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

FIBER OPTIC WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEM; JONES MATRIX;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0031337970     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008862     Document Type: Article

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