Internally baffled integrating sphere cosine collector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3117, Issue , 1997, Pages 246-252

  Crowther, Blake G ^a,b   Thome, Kurtis J ^a   Biggar, Stuart F ^a   Burkhart, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Hughes Missile Systems Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosine collector; Diffuse irradiance; Global irradiance; Integrating sphere; Monte Carlo modeling

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; VACANCIES;

COSINE COLLECTOR; DIFFUSE IRRADIANCE; GLOBAL IRRADIANCE; INTEGRATING SPHERE; MONTE CARLO MODELING;

SPHERES;

EID: 0012007338     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.283811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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