Measurement of the surface profile of an axicon lens with a polarization phase-shifting shearing interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 6057-6062

  Chatterjee, Sanjib ^a   Kumar, Y Pavan ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION; SHEARING;

COLLIMATED LASER BEAMS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION PHASE; SHEARING INTERFEROMETER; TWYMAN-GREEN INTERFEROMETERS;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 81055155594     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.006057     Document Type: Article

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