Real-time phase-front detector for heterodyne interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4541-4548

  Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán ^a   Heinzel, Gerhard ^a   Marín, Antonio F García ^a   Wand, Vinzenz ^a   Steier, Frank ^a   Jennrich, Oliver ^b   Danzmann, Karsten ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; HETERODYNING; INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

HETERODYNE FREQUENCIES; HETERODYNE INTERFEROMETER; LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE INTERFEROMETER;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548580692     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004541     Document Type: Article

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