Measurement of the complex refractive-index spectrum for birefringent and absorptive liquids

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 5169-5175

  Saito, Mitsunori ^a   Matsumoto, Norihisa ^a   Nishimura, Jiro ^a  

^a RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0008410124     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005169     Document Type: Article

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