Optical parts and the nonlinearity in heterodyne interferometers

Precision Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-346

  Hou, Wenmei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ellipticity; Heterodyne interferometer; Nonlinearity; Nonorthogonality; Polarization

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; ERROR ANALYSIS; HETERODYNING; OPTICAL DEVICES; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POLARIZATION;

ELLIPTICITY; HETERODYNE INTERFEROMETERS; NONORTHOGONALITY;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33744939175     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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