Optical tests of nanoengineered liquid mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1882-1887

  Yockell Lelièvre, Hélène ^a,b   Borra, Ermanno F ^a,c   Ritcey, Anna M ^a,b   Da Silva, Lande Vieira ^a,c  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^b Département de Chimie Sherbrooke   (Canada)

^c The Département de Physique   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID METALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL TESTING; SELF ASSEMBLY;

LIQUID MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0042977532     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001882     Document Type: Article

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