Methods for making prisms with submultiple or half angles: Applications to the measurement of the angles of Pechan and Pellin-Broca prisms

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2945-2950

  Madhusudana Rao, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Half angles; Metrology; Prisms; Submultiple angles

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SPECTROMETERS;

PELLIN-BROCA PRISMS;

PRISMS;

EID: 0036864124     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1512660     Document Type: Article

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