Temporal coherence requirement in a symmetric-path grating interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 800-804

  Cheng, Yih Shyang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Grating interferometer; Temporal coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944239789     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000800     Document Type: Article

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