Parameterization of the angular response of 2.54-cm photomultiplier tubes

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 232-239

  Lay, M D ^a  

^a Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTOCATHODES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ABSORPTIVITY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FRESNEL LAW; NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS; REFLECTIVITY;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0030736364     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000232     Document Type: Article

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