High stability multiplexed fibre interferometer and its application on absolute displacement measurement and on-line surface metrology

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5729-5734

  Lin, Dejiao ^a   Jiang, Xiangqian ^a   Xie, Fang ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Lin, Zhang ^b   Bennion, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL PATHS; SPATIAL LIGHT-WAVE SCANNING; SURFACE MEASUREMENTS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 10444258113     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005729     Document Type: Article

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