Accuracy of frequency-sweeping interferometry for absolute distance metrology

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Cabral, Alexandre ^a   Rebordão, José ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot; Interferometry; Metrology; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER TUNING; MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL SENSORS; WAVELENGTH;

FREQUENCY-SWEEPING INTERFEROMETRY; MULTIPLE-WAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 34548649159     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2754308     Document Type: Article

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