Investigation of the influence of spatial coherence of a broad-area laser diode on the interference fringe system of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer for highly spatially resolved velocity measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1582-1590

  Büttner, Lars ^a   Czarske, Jürgen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

INTERFERENCE FRINGE SYSTEMS; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

EID: 15944385999     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001582     Document Type: Article

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