Dispersion of the group birefringence of a calcite crystal measured by white-light spectral interferometry

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1267-1271

  Hlubina, Petr ^a   Urbańczyk, Waclaw ^b  

^a VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Calcite; Group birefringence; Low resolution spectrometer; Material dispersion characterization; Michelson interferometer; White light spectral interferometry

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; DISPERSIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTROMETERS;

CALCITE CRYSTALS; GROUP BIREFRINGE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; WHITE-LIGHT SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY;

CALCITE;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 19944371734     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 09570233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/6/005     Document Type: Article

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