Focal-length measurement by multiple-beam shearing interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3542-3548

  Matsuda, Kiyofumi ^a,b   Barnes, Thomas H ^c   Oreb, Bob F ^d   Sheppard, Colin J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FOCUSING; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONTS;

FOCAL-LENGTH MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE-BEAM SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY;

LENSES;

EID: 0032606394     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003542     Document Type: Article

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