Interferometric measurement of refractive-index change in photosensitive glass

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1663-1667

  Dennis, Tasshi ^a   Gill, Erin M ^a,b   Gilbert, Sarah L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Datex Ohmeda   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHROMISM; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL-PATH DIFFERENCE (OPD);

PHOTOSENSITIVE GLASS;

EID: 0038045332     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001663     Document Type: Article

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