A passive method to compensate nonlinearity in a homodyne interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 23299-23308

  Ahn, Jeongho ^a   Kim, Jong Ahn ^b   Kang, Chu Shik ^b   Kim, Jae Wan ^b   Kim, Soohyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; COMPENSATION METHOD; HOMODYNE INTERFEROMETERS; PASSIVE METHODS; POLARIZATION CROSSTALK; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; WAVEPLATES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 72049128925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023299     Document Type: Article

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