Compactness of lateral shearing interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4656-4663

  Ferrec, Yann ^a   Taboury, Jean ^b   Sauer, Hervé ^b   Chavel, Pierre ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPACT SOLUTIONS; CORNER CUBES; LATERAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETER; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL IMAGING;

SHEARING;

EID: 80051580707     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004656     Document Type: Article

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