Low-coherence fiber-optic sensor with a large numerical aperture for topographic measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4080-4083

  Windecker, Robert ^a   Fleischer, Matthias ^a   Tiziani, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DEMODULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; TOPOMETRY;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032124027     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004080     Document Type: Article

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