Refractive indices and extinction coefficients of polymers for the mid-infrared region

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 30, 1998, Pages 7091-7095

  Wang, You ^a   Abe, Yukio ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a   Uyama, Hiroshi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001188408     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007091     Document Type: Article

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