Lau fringe formation using a grating registered in a BSO crystal

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2971-2978

  Tebaldi, Myrian C ^a,b   Angel Toro, Luciano A ^a,b,c,d   Bolognini, Néstor A ^a,b,e  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES OPTICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Lau fringes; Photorefraction; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345422559     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601885     Document Type: Article

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