Removing nonlinearity of a homodyne interferometer by adjusting the gains of its quadrature detector systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2443-2448

  Keem, Taeho ^a,b   Gonda, Satoshi ^a   Misumi, Ichiko ^a   Huang, Qiangxian ^a   Kurosawa, Tomizo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

HOMODYNE INTERFEROMETER; NANOMETERS; PHASE MIXING; QUADRATURE DETECTOR SYSTEMS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 2142766010     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002443     Document Type: Article

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