Statistics of the Stokes parameters

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1987, Pages 1256-1263

  Barakat, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000589312     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.4.001256     Document Type: Article

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