White-light interferometer with dispersion: An accurate fiber-optic sensor for the measurement of distance

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2978-2983

  Pavlíček, Pavel ^a   Häusler, Gerd ^b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

POINT SENSORS; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENT; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 20444494261     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002978     Document Type: Article

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