Recent developments of division-of-amplitude photopolarimeters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2873, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-4

  Azzam, R M A ^a  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

BEAM SPLITTING; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; FOUR STOKES PARAMETERS; INCIDENT LIGHT; LINEARLY INDEPENDENTS; PHOTOPOLARIMETERS; POLARIZING OPTICS; STATE OF POLARIZATION;

LIGHT;

EID: 0006328032     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.246175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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