Three polarization reflectometry methods for determination of optical anisotropy

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-78

  Surdutovich, Gregory I ^a   Vitlina, Ritta Z ^a   Ghiner, Aleksander V ^c   Durrant, Steven F ^b   Baranauskas, Vitor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Fisica Gleb Watagin   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

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EID: 0002322690     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000065     Document Type: Article

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