Quality improvement of partially polarized beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6098-6101

  Movilla, Jesús M ^a   Martínez Herrero, Rosario ^a   Mejías, Pedro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

PARTIALLY POLARIZED BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0006081906     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006098     Document Type: Article

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