Bilayer free-standing beam splitter for Fourier transform infrared spectrometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2927-2933

  Rowell, N L ^a   Wang, E A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam splitter; Far infrared; Fourier transform; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005504996     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002927     Document Type: Article

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