Algorithm for multiple-beam Fizeau interferograms with arbitrary phase shifts

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18922-18932

  Xu, Jiancheng ^a   Xu, Qiao ^a   Chai, Liqun ^a   Peng, Hansheng ^b  

^a CHENGDU FINE OPTICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ARBITRARY PHASE SHIFTS; CARRIER FREQUENCY; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE CYCLES; PHASE EXTRACTION; PHASE INFORMATION; REFLECTIVITY COEFFICIENTS;

PHASE SHIFT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 56149106486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018922     Document Type: Article

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