Calibration of a reversed-wavefront interferometer for polarization coherence metrology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6672, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brown, Dean P ^a   Spilman, Alexis K ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^a   Alonso, Miguel A ^a   Borghi, Riccardo ^b   Santarsiero, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; Interferometry; Polarization vortex beams

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; WAVEFRONTS;

POLARIZATION VORTEX BEAMS; REVERSED WAVEFRONT INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 42149135554     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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