Performance degradation of a michelson interferometer when its misalignment angle is a rapidly varying, random time series

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4034-4042

  Cohen, Douglas L ^a  

^a ITT Aerospace   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic alignment; Fourier transform infrared; Michelson interferometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041716613     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004034     Document Type: Article

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