Comparison with Traditional Interferometers (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Comparison with Traditional Interferometers

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At left is the basic design of a traditional interferometer, and at right the more compact design of the interferometer created in the lab of optics professor Chunlei Guo. This new wedge reversal shearing interferometer has the added advantage of being able to measure the beam front information or wave front of powerful, superfast pulsed laser beams,

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University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw

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