Extended Light Source of Multimode Fibers for Suppressing Coherent Noise in Phase-Shift Interferometer

Chenhui Hu; Lei Chen; Chen Huang; Zhiyao Ma; Yue Qian; Zhe Zhang; Ruokun Li; Donghui Zheng

doi:10.3788/AOS202242.1906001

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