Reflective diffractive beam splitter for laser interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6092-6095

  Fahr, Stephan ^a   Clausnitzer, Tina ^a   Kley, Ernst Bernhard ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIZATION;

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; THERMAL LENSING EFFECTS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 36749048175     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006092     Document Type: Article

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