Laser feedback interferometry based on phase difference of orthogonally polarized lights in external birefringence cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13939-13945

  Tan, Yidong ^a   Zhang, Shulian ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FEEDBACK; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

DIRECTIONAL DISCRIMINATION; DISPLACEMENT SENSOR; EXTERNAL CAVITY; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349133450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013939     Document Type: Article

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