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Mach Zehnder interferometer for measuring microlenses

Daly et al., 1994

Document ID
9356624805519378016
Author
Daly D
Hutley M
Stevens R
Publication year
Publication venue
Interferometry'94: New Techniques and Analysis in Optical Measurements

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The growing interest in microlenses and microlens arrays has created a need for measurement systems to characterize their performance, particularly important being the transmitted wavefront and focal length. A Mach Zehnder interferometer has been built into a …
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