Noise-related resolution limit of dispersion measurements with white-light interferometers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1868-1874

  Gosteva, Anastassia ^a   Haiml, Markus ^a   Paschotta, Ruediger ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; INVERSE SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; NOISE-RELATED RESOLUTION LIMIT; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 25444481325     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001868     Document Type: Article

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