Collimation testing with circular gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1175-1179

  Shakher, Chandra ^a   Prakash, Shashi ^a   Nand, Daya ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CIRCULAR GRATINGS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 0037826919     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001175     Document Type: Article

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