Simple real-time method for checking parallelism between the two gratings in Talbot interferometry

Optics Communications

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-26

  Liu, Qian ^a   Ohba, Ryoji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MOIRE FRINGES;

TALBOT INTERFEROMETRY; UNPARALLEL GRATING PLANES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0033875006     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00757-9     Document Type: Article

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