Simulations and experimental results with a vectorial shearing interferometer

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 767-773

  Garcia Torales, G ^a   Paez, G ^a   Strojnik, M ^a  

^a Centro de Investigaciones en Optica   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Metrological instruments; Optical fabrication; Optical system; Prisms

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL TESTING; PRISMS; RAY TRACING; SHEAR WAVES; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCES (OPD); VECTORIAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0035330032     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1360707     Document Type: Article

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