Broadband division-of-amplitude polarimeter based on uncoated prisms

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 5938-5944

  Compain, Eric ^a   Drevillon, Bernard ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

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EID: 0000012411     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005938     Document Type: Article

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