Deep nulling of laser light with a single-mode-fiber beam combiner

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2749-2754

  Haguenauer, Pierre ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NEON;

BEAM COMBINERS; DUAL APERTURE INTERFERENCE; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 33745159617     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002749     Document Type: Article

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