Measuring absolute infrared spectral radiance with correlated visible photons: Technique verification and measurement uncertainty

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3455-3463

  Migdall, Alan ^a   Datla, Raju ^a   Sergienko, Alexander ^b,c   Orszak, Jeffrey S ^b,d   Shih, Yanhua H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (United States)

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EID: 0000442955     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003455     Document Type: Article

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