Refractive index errors in the critical-angle and the Brewster-angle methods applied to absorbing and heterogeneous materials

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 728-733

  Meeten, G H ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BREWSTER ANGLE METHODS;

REFRACTOMETERS;

EID: 0031192073     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/8/7/006     Document Type: Article

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