Angle amplification for nanoradian measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1725-1729

  Pisani, Marco ^a   Astrua, Milena ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; ROTATION;

ANGLE AMPLIFICATION; NANORADIANS; QUASI-PARALLEL MIRRORS; ROTATION ANGLE;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33645760007     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001725     Document Type: Article

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