Optical tests with Bessel beam interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5887-5895

  Fortin, Mathieu ^a   Piché, Michel ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; SURFACES; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; BESSEL BEAM INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID MIRRORS; PHASE SENSITIVITY;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 10444283489     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005887     Document Type: Article

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