Unique interpretation of Talbot bands and Fourier domain white light interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9867-9876

  Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DIFFRACTION GRATING SPECTROMETERS; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (FDOCT); FOURIER DOMAIN WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY; TALBOT BANDS;

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 34547431214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009867     Document Type: Article

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