Heterodyne interferometer with unequal path lengths
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Heterodyne interferometer with unequal path lengths
Laser interferometry is an extensively used diagnostic for plasma experiments. Existing plasma interferometers are designed on the presumption that the scene and reference beam path lengths have to be equal, a requirement that is costly in both the number of optical components and the alignment complexity. It is shown here that having equal path lengths is not necessary, instead, what is requir...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Scientific Instruments
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0034-6748,1089-7623
DOI: 10.1063/1.2336769