Time-resolved polarization shadowgrams in turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2984-2989

  Liang, X ^a   Wang, L ^a   Ho, P P ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier optical filtering; Polarization; Time resolved imaging; Turbid media; Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000783192     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002984     Document Type: Article

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