Depolarization and principal Mueller matrix measured by null ellipsometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2001, Pages 4933-4939

  Nee, Soe Mie F ^a  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SAPPHIRE;

DEPOLARIZATION;

ELLIPSOMETRY;

EID: 0000851670     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004933     Document Type: Article

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