Highest-accuracy interferometer alignment by retroreflection scanning

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 31, 2004, Pages 5738-5743

  Schödel, René ^a   Bönsch, Gerhard ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERRORS; LASER OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SCANNING;

AUTOCOLLIMATION; COSINE ERRORS; RETROREFLECTION; ZERO POSITION;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 9144254577     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005738     Document Type: Article

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