Real-time measurement of the polarization transfer function

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 34-44

  Mujat, Mircea ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE MODULATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MUELLER MATRIX;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0001902827     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000034     Document Type: Article

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