Phase retarders highly insensitive to the input angle

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1231-1235

  Nagib, N N ^a  

^a National Institute for Standards   (Egypt)

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EID: 0009481640     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001231     Document Type: Article

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