Stable lateral-shearing interferometer for production-line inspection of lenses

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 896-900

  Cho, Woo Jong ^a   Kim, Seung Woo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Immersion oil; Lateral shaped interferometry; Least squares phase measuring algorithms; Optical testing; Phase shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142703258     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601142     Document Type: Article

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