Measurement of refractive-index change at a liquid-solid interface close to the critical angle

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2733-2736

  Martinelli, Marcelo ^a   Gugliotti, Marcos ^a   Horowicz, Ricardo Josué ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LIQUID-SOLID INTERFACES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0000615961     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002733     Document Type: Article

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