
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hill, RM 
A1  - Bruce, CF 
T1  - Limiting Precision in a Scanning Optical Interferometer
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1962
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 194
EP  - 222
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH620194 
N2  - An examination of the limiting precision with which a scanning optical interferometer can be pointed on a fringe peak is described. The interferometer uses photoelectric detection and it is shown that the principal noise sources limiting the accuracy of detection are the shot noise in the vacuum photocell and the photon noise from the light source. 
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