A MICHELSON two-beam interferometer can be used for refractive-index determination by measuring the shift of the achromatic fringe when a specimen of known thickness is placed in one arm of the ...

Here, a highly sensitive distributed feedback (DFB) dye laser sensor for high frame rate imaging refractometry without moving parts is presented. DFB dye lasers are low-cost and highly sensitive ...

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