Equal optical path beam splitters by use of amplitude-splitting and wavefront-splitting methods for pencil beam interferometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5193, Issue , 2004, Pages 79-88

  Qian, Shinan ^a   Takacs, Peter ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam splitter; Equal optical path; Frequency drift; Long trace profiler; Pencil beam interferometer; Phase shift

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MICROSCOPES; PHASE SHIFT; PRISMS;

EQUAL OPTICAL PATH; FREQUENCY DRIFT; LONG TRACE PROFILERS; PENCIL BEAM INTERFEROMETERS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 1942518350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.508024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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