Direct measurement of refractive-index dispersion of transparent media by white-light interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3910-3914

  Galli, Matteo ^a   Marabelli, Franco ^a   Guizzetti, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0041808761     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003910     Document Type: Article

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