Effects of birefringence on Fizeau interferometry that uses a polarization phase-shifting technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 7548-7553

  Zhao, Chunyu ^a   Kang, Dongyel ^a   Burge, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEFRONTS;

FIZEAU INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE-SHIFTING INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIZED BEAMS; TWYMAN-GREEN-TYPE SYSTEMS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 30844471157     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007548     Document Type: Article

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