High-accuracy interferometer with a prism pair for measurement of the absolute refractive index of glass

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2045-2050

  Hori, Yasuaki ^a   Hirai, Akiko ^a   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL GLASS; PRISMS;

HIGH-ACCURACY; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL PATH; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REFRACTIVE INDEX OF GLASS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 65249133017     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002045     Document Type: Article

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