Optical properties of isotropic chiral media

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 417-443

  Lekner, John ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBSTRATES;

CHIRAL MEDIA;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0030180412     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/5/4/008     Document Type: Article

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