Modeling interferometers with lens design software

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1748-1759

  Stone, Bryan D ^a  

^a Tropel Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

RAY-BASED MODELS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0034229523     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602554     Document Type: Article

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