An improved cat's-eye retroreflector used in a laser tracking interferometer system

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Lin, Yongbing ^a,b   Zhang, Guoxiong ^b   Li, Zhen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cat's eye retroreflector; Large range measurement; Laser tracking system; Optimization

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFLECTION;

OPTICAL RETROREFLECTOR;

INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0038417179     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/6/404     Document Type: Article

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