Polarization properties of corner-cube retroreflectors: Theory and experiment

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1553-1559

  Liu, Jian ^a,b   Azzam, R M A ^a  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 0000740166     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001553     Document Type: Article

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