Three-dimensional phase imaging with a scanning optical-fiber interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3508-3515

  Walford, Julian N ^a   Nugent, Keith A ^a   Roberts, Ann ^a   Scholten, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

LIGHT WAVE PHASE MEASUREMENT; MACH-ZEHNDER FIBER INTERFEROMETERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032620480     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003508     Document Type: Article

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