Measurement and imaging of birefringence and optic axis orientation by phase resolved polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 780-790

  Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Sticker, Markus ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Percher, Adolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTIC AXIS ORIENTATIONS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE RESOLVED POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000840365     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000780     Document Type: Article

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