Cyclic shearing interferometer for collimating short coherence-length laser beams

Until now there has not been an accurate method for measuring the radius of curvature, R, of a short coherence-length light source, such as a short-pulse or broadband laser. We show that the easily aligned cyclic shearing interferometer (CSI) solves this problem. The CSI produces a stable fringe pat...

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