Diffractive grazing-incidence interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1527-1530

  de Groot, Peter ^a  

^a ZYGO CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVEFRONTS;

GRAZING-INCIDENCE INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0038492652     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001527     Document Type: Article

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