Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

interféromètre à décalage quadri-latéral

English translation:

Quadri-lateral shift interferometer

Added to glossary by Subbanna
Sep 5, 2008 12:11
15 yrs ago
French term

interféromètre à décalage quadri-latéral

French to English Science Physics
...the inventors of which have just been awarded a prize by the French Physics Society!

Any ideas very gratefully received.
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Sep 19, 2008 11:31: Subbanna changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/748949">Vicky James's</a> old entry - "interféromètre à décalage quadri-latéral "" to ""Quadri-lateral shift interferometer""

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Quadri-lateral shift interferometer

I presume Decalage means shift-a patent on multilateral shift interferometry, developed by the Department of Theoretical and Applied Optics...
Note from asker:
Many thanks, Subbanna, this link is highly relevant to my document! Have you got any ideas for what to do with "IDQL", its French abbreviation?
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quadrilateral shear interferometer

A new holographic lateral shear interferometer is described for observation of a phase object by differential interference contrast method. ...
www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0150-536X/11/2/00

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The idea was demonstrated using a quadrilateral Sagnac ... new shear interferometer. Fig. 3. The interference pattern of a single laser beam ("single ...
arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0702294 -
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Translation for IDQL

I guess the French abbr."IDQL" refers to Interferometer Decalage Quadrilateral

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I guess the French abbr."IDQL" refers to Interferometer Decalage Quadrilateral

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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-09-05 16:38:15 GMT)
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I dont think so, to my knowledge
Note from asker:
Thanks Subbanna. I realise this, but do you think that an equivalent abbreviation exists in English?
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