Optimal phase contrast in common-path interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 268-282

  Glückstad, Jesper ^a   Mogensen, Paul C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

PHASE CONTRAST;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0038600695     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000268     Document Type: Article

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