Strange interference blots in the interferometry of inhomogeneous birefringent objects

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7172-7179

  Aben, Hillar ^a   Josepson, Jüri ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b Elcoteq   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Interferometry; Photoelasticity; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038802532     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007172     Document Type: Article

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