Local spectral information in the near field with wavelet analysis and entropy

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 31, 1999, Pages 6587-6596

  Barchiesi, Dominique ^a,c   Gharbi, Tijani ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b CERAH Centre d Etudes et de la Recherches sur l Appareillage pour les Handicapés   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d Instrumentation Optique   (France)

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EID: 0000732620     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006587     Document Type: Article

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