Comparison of three digital fringe signal processing methods in a ballistic free-fall absolute gravimeter

Metrologia

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-689

  Svitlov, S ^a   Maslyk P ^b   Rothleitner, Ch ^c   Hu, H ^d   Wang, L J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b Capgemini Polska   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; DATA LOCATION; DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRINGE SIGNALS; GERMANY; HARDWARE TEST; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROCESSING METHOD; ZERO CROSSING METHODS;

BIREFRINGENCE; GRAVIMETERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 78650123798     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/47/6/007     Document Type: Article

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