Application of a shack cube as a beam splitter in interferometers with a local reference beam

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 1996, Pages 6648-6654

  Shen, Wei ^a   Chang, Ming Wen ^a   Wan, Der Shen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Local reference; Phase shift; Shack cube

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442308739     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006648     Document Type: Article

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