Absolute distance measurement with an optical feedback interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 28, 1998, Pages 6684-6689

  Gouaux, Flore ^a   Bosch, Thierry ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANGE FINDERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BEAT FREQUENCY METHOD; OPTICAL FEEDBACK INTERFEROMETER; PULSE COUNTING METHOD; SELF MIXING INTERFERENCE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0032184640     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006684     Document Type: Article

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