Polarized pulse waves in random discrete scatterers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 5495-5502

  Ishimaru, Akira ^a   Jaruwatanadilo, Sermsak ^a   Kuga, Yasuo ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

PULSE WAVES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0000982625     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005495     Document Type: Article

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