Synthesis of longitudinal coherence functions by spatial modulation of an extended light source: A new interpretation and experimental verifications

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1962-1971

  Wang, Wei ^a   Kozaki, Hirokazu ^b   Rosen, Joseph ^b,c   Takeda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IRRADIATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PROFILOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0036543139     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001962     Document Type: Article

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