Polarimetric optical imaging of scattering surfaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 30, 1996, Pages 6015-6027

  Barter, J D ^a   Lee, P H Y ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonintrusive optical polarimetry; Surface scattering

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL SPECULAR EVENT DETECTOR; SCATTERING;

EID: 0030318192     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006015     Document Type: Article

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