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Results of an investigation of the depolarization loss of interference-field contrast are presented. The loss of contrast was found experimentally and simulated numerically for different interferometric schemes: with lateral and radial shifts and with a reference beam. It is found that the original polarization of the probing radiation affects substantially the integral contrast of the interference field.
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Baltic State Technical University, 1, 1st Krasnoarmeiskaya St., St.-Petersburg, 198005, Russia. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 62–66, January–February, 1998.
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Baskaev, P.Y., Lobachev, V.V. & Strakhov, S.Y. Depolarization loss of interference-pattern contrast when probing radially loaded cylindrical glass laser matrices. J Appl Spectrosc 65, 62–66 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674789
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674789