Automated small tilt-angle measurement using Lau interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5905-5909

  Prakash, Shashi ^a   Singh, Sumitra ^a   Rana, Santosh ^a  

^a DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT;

INCOHERENT SOURCES; LAU INTERFEROMETRY; TILT-ANGLE MEASUREMENTS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 28044466890     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005905     Document Type: Article

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