Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 19, 1905001(2021)
Effect of Phase Grating Asymmetry on Position Measurement Accuracy
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Guanghua Yang, Yu Wang, Jing Li, Minxia Ding, Zengxiong Lu. Effect of Phase Grating Asymmetry on Position Measurement Accuracy[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(19): 1905001
Category: Diffraction and Gratings
Received: Jan. 25, 2021
Accepted: Apr. 23, 2021
Published Online: Oct. 9, 2021
The Author Email: Li Jing (lijing2018@ime.ac.cn)