Dispersion-free absolute interferometry based on angular spectrum scanning

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 655-663

  Duan, Zhihui ^a   Miyamoto, Yoko ^a   Takeda, Mitsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; MACHINE COMPONENTS; MONOCHROMATORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR SPECTRUM SCANNING TECHNIQUE; INCIDENT ANGLE; MONOCHROMATIC PLANE WAVE;

SCANNING;

EID: 31144434677     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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